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 it's *not* the narrative of Heart of Darkness, where the civilized white man is "corrupted" by contact with the natives, in his story there are no natives and the civilized white boys always were corrupt, they brought the disease with them
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Like I don't know if LotF actually is anti-colonial but I think it's more anti-colonial than Heart of Darkness, which gets more credit for being antiracist than I think it actually deserves
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A good example of children shipwrecked on an island which doesn't feature stereotypes of natives, see Two Years' Vacation by Jules Verne
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