We seem oblivious to the fact that we are courting violence

Game of Thrones fans will know the feeling of appreciating a looming threat while ordinary mortals continue to fight over quotidian concerns. The threat of the white walkers – the army of the dead – looms every larger as the main contenders for the throne continue to fight each other.

But once at a meeting of the Royals, Jon Snow, one of the key characters speaks truth when he says to his contemporaries that if they don’t come together to fight the white walkers, they will all be dead. He concludes ‘… and then it will not matter whose skeleton is sitting on the iron throne.’