Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes donât go feral like in the book. Itâs almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.
thereâs a timeskip
THEREâS A TIMESKIP
THEREâS A TIMESKIP
THEREâS A TIMESKIP
after losing control of the signal fire thereâs a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyoneâs hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and theyâre still just kind of chilling!!!!
IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH
AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because
THEREâS AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING
AND A PILOTâS CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA
BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM
HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -
IT DIDNâT HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVENâT READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DONâT REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK
#tbf the dude wrote it to be a dick
yes. yes he did. iâm also gonna direct you to the real life âlord of the fliesâ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until theyâd cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. hereâs a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.
i read about this in rutger bregmanâs human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you donât want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.
