This idea, popularized by narratives like Lord of the Flies, furthers the notion that society is just a thin veneer and people are just going to become animals the second civilization isn’t around to tell them what to do. Ideas like this were/are used to justify colonialism.https://twitter.com/nkjemisin/status/1259248932326170631 …
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Like he was parodying a book that actually was about shipwrecked kids taking over an island inhabited by "savages" and civilizing them with their superior education And the biggest difference between LotF and The Coral Island is LotF has no "savages"
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I’ve always been deeply suspicious of groups of British public school boys. I’ve seen some shit. It’s like the difference between wolf behaviour in the wild (communal, loving, not much hierarchy) and wolves in captivity.
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It's worth pointing out that Jack's "army" already existed before they got there, they were just organized for a different purpose - they're a schoolboy choir The joke is that regardless of the purpose the structure of an army with the hierarchy and deference was already there
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That is a very charitable reading ;)
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I mean, it's informed by knowing the origin story (from reading the little essay that comes at the end of the classroom edition), where he wrote the book out of his disgust at The Coral Island based on his own experiences teaching at a British prep school
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Wasn't a theme of the book to refute the idea that Europeans were "civilized"
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"Sheltered" is the wrong way to put it, yes Jack's army are definitely the first to "go bad" because they've already got a vicious hierarchy based on bullying from when they were a choir
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Omg, thank you for actually reading the book! So many bad takes on this rn
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