Like, I dunno, I feel like a hypothetical reader who could go galaxy brain enough to use LotF to justify an actively pro-colonial message could do that with literally any text Who's the colonist in the story then, the Navy guy at the end?
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The whole point of his deus ex machina appearance is he has no idea what's happened or how to fix it, it's totally against his worldview He *says so*, that he thought British schoolboys on an island would end up having a grand Robinsonade adventure
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And, remember, the framing device of the story - easy to miss and dropped from many parodies/adaptations, to be fair - is HIS SOCIETY FAILED TOO The boys got stranded in the first place because London got nuked The grownups burned down their island too
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Yeah this is why I had so much trouble getting through it when we were assigned it in high school— that shit was traumatic, especially for a black girl trying to make it through mostly white “gifted” courses
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I’d like a libertarian reboot of LotF where Ayn Rand acolytes like Paul Ryan find themselves on an island. It would be short, tho. Once they realize there is no society to rip off and claim as their own achievement, they despair and starve to death.
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I always took the reading of the novel to be that "man is naturally a savage and violent monster and in times of hardship we will embrace our nature as animals" when the real truth that it's in our nature to be helpful and cooperative.
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Like most post-apocalyptic fiction, it adopts a reductive, adolescent view of human nature.
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