Yeah so like case in point I don't know that Lord of the Flies is about "universal human nature" but if it's not about this kind of thing then what is it abouthttps://twitter.com/AJemaineClement/status/1259374994062299136 …
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Man the shit where once Ralph realizes how badly things have gone off the rails he starts ranting and shouting "You can't let the fire go out, you idiots! That's the first rule!" And Jack shuts him down in classic bully style "He's talking like Piggy! He's turning into Piggy!"
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"oH yOu HaVe tO sToP yOu'Re BrEaKiNg tHe RuLeS eat shit you fucking hall monitor f***ot fat fuck"
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"Oh the VIRUS, the VIRUS, he's so scared of the VIRUS Fucking pussy commie f*gs washing their hands twenty times a day and shit THIS IS AMERICA"
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I know I am slotting myself into a stereotype here but Piggy from LotF keeps on feeling very very relevant
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Just like the politics of Mike Judge's IDIOCRACY are terrible if you analyze them in any depth But his defense was the movie wasn't about a political manifesto but a *feeling* "It's the feeling of getting smacked in the head and called a f*g for answering a question in class"
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And, on that level, shit, I feel you man I really really do
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Like if Golding wasn't primarily writing from that feeling above any explicit metaphor or manifesto I'll eat my hat It bleeds off of every page of the book
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Once read a a nice description of LotF. It's not a book about what humans descend to without society. It's about what white adolescent males descend to once even the few rules that bound them fall away. It's prob no coincidence the majority of these people are white.
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Replying to @scientist_iam @arthur_affect
It's, like: What do people who are so utterly embedded in privilege that it feels like breathing do once they're forced, not by societal norms but hard biological determinism, to give up privileges? Apparently they just break.
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It's very much a response to books like The Coral Island with this vision of the British as a "natural ruling class", where the shipwrecked boys show up in a community of "savages" and immediately just start improving everything
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