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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Replying to @thelindsayellis
My own personal reading of LotF is that everything goes to hell precisely because these are sheltered British upper class white boys with a twisted sense of entitlement
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Replying to @arthur_affect @thelindsayellis
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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