I haven't read it, full disclosure. I've seen the film adaptation, I know what it's about But basically it's one of those things that gets sold to you as some kind of sweeping commentary about the human condition when actually it's just germane to privileged male little shits
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I honestly don't really know what to do with the story, it's one of those things like ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS where it's just really a sanitized/sensationalized version of shit that white authors haven't shown a good job of understanding THE LIFE OF PI isn't much better
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It's fine I guess. It's not nearly as invidious as 1984 or 451. I don't know that you can really use it as a rhetorical weapon against leftism (except maybe anprims). At best it's a book about toxic masculinity and dominance culture among males which is kinda Tiptreeish tbh
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See! Okay. This is really important! Honestly, in the age of JKR, with her toxic creative property poisoning the earth, I could see LORD OF THE FLIES relevant from a deprogramming perspective, deconstructing the evils of the boarding school systemhttps://twitter.com/chibikonatsu/status/1292307493352140800 …
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Honestly in 2020 it's kind of ridiculous to imagine that we would ever NEED to have to make the case to children that boarding school culture is uniquely toxic but JKR has romanticized and glorified it to a really unwholesome extent Plus it had a hand in creating David Cameron
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Like, the whole sequence of events which led to Cameron putting his penis in a pig is tied to boarding school culture. If LORD OF THE FLIES were to renew its cultural relevance on that basis, though, the context it's presented in would have to change significantly
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For all that Rowling claims to have been inspired by Roald Dahl, Dahl is nothing if not extremely open about the fact that boarding school made his childhood a traumatic living hell and Rowling pretty much describes it as Disneyland but for eight yearshttps://twitter.com/mssilverstein/status/1292309423982084098 …
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Look even if you hate LotF itself you have to give it credit for this The thing that LotF is making fun of was an *entire popular genre* for many years, the utopian Robinsinade LotF completely killed it in one swoop
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I mean, time and growing cynicism would've likely killed it anyway, but LotF was the death blow In hindsight it's a huge embarrassment this genre existed - schoolchildren get stranded in the wilderness and use what they learned in school to recreate civilization from scratch
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Often bringing enlightenment, technological advances and Christianity to an actual human tribe of "savages" who were already living in this "wilderness" Awful, unforgivable stuff
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Like even if you were just as racist as the author it's the sheer self-confidence in display in these stories - "There's nothing a British schoolboy can't figure out!" - that makes you want to beat up the whole genre and give it a swirlie
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
And LotF was SO MUCH MORE POPULAR than the stuff it was mocking (most specifically The Coral Island) and SO MUCH BETTER WRITTEN and in particularly the kids obviously SO MUCH MORE REALISTIC than in any of those other stories the genre just died
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No one ever seriously tries to write a story like that anymore The closest we've got is Disney grandfathering in their remakes of Swiss Family Robinson because their movie version was a "classic"
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