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Biologist | Author of Red Queen, Genome, Rational Optimist, and now Viral: The Search for the #OriginOfCovid. Order it now: http://amzn.to/3hfGmyn 

Northumberland, UK
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    Matt Ridley‏Verified account @mattwridley 9 May 2020

    A fascinating example of dystopian, pessimistic fiction displacing the hopeful, optimistic truth. Turns out that Lord of the Flies is dead wrong. Maroon some boarding-school boys on an island and they act sensibly, generously and imaginatively.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months?CMP=share_btn_tw …

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      2. Billy Trashpanda‏ @OthelloT5 9 May 2020
        Replying to @mattwridley

        Wait until one of them wants to leave the island...

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      3. Joanna Skinner‏ @JoannaSkinner18 9 May 2020
        Replying to @OthelloT5 @mattwridley

        What are you talking about? The Tongan boys weren't marooned on purpose to test a theory. They were really lost & given up for dead until found by Peter Warner.

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      1. Richard_holte‏ @richardholte87 9 May 2020
        Replying to @mattwridley

        Amazing story, thanks for sharing

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      2. Steve Sailer‏ @Steve_Sailer 9 May 2020
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        Robert A. Heinlein's 1955 novel "Tunnel in the Sky" predicted, in contrast to Golding's "Lord of the Flies," that high school students marooned upon another planet would, after some difficulties, eventually work out pragmatic political solutions:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_in_the_Sky …

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      3. michael freeman‏ @michaelfreeman 9 May 2020
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer @mattwridley

        If I was there. Played Quarterback. Not many of us. Get everybody together. This is what we need to do. Do we want to win. There is always an asshole. Give him a role too. Focus people. Get off this island and find Women!

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      1. Creative Copy‏ @Vicky64205723 9 May 2020
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        Not that I’m crying or anything.

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      2. Michael Bentley‏ @m_a_bentley 9 May 2020
        Replying to @mattwridley @Oliver_S_Curry

        What this article doesn't mention is that they started with 20 boys.

        1 reply 1 retweet 21 likes
      3. SLogue‏ @SLogue70 10 May 2020
        Replying to @m_a_bentley @mattwridley @Oliver_S_Curry

        Trolling is just grubby. Try not to be so.

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      2. Morphman the Clown‏ @MorphmanSL 9 May 2020
        Replying to @mattwridley

        It's almost like Lord of the Flies is fiction with no basis in reality, a what-if scenario drawn up from an author that has no actual authority on the subject matter, but merely sought to entertain the audience. Or, as most people call it: A story

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      3. Shahbaz The Maverick‏ @ShahbazMaverick 9 May 2020
        Replying to @MorphmanSL @mattwridley

        Its not hard for me to picture the conduct the kids displayed in the book being displayed in real life. The problem comes when you say definitively that any random assortment of kids exposed to the circumstance would invariably behave in the exact same way

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