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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...I did, in fact, very much miss that
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A lot of people assume that the reference to evacuating London is to the Blitz in WWII but flying across the ocean in a plane was very much an anachronism for that war Golding was writing in 1954 and writing about a near future WW3
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