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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on May 09, 2020, 09:50:40 AM

Title: The real life Lord of the Flies
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 09, 2020, 09:50:40 AM

Fascinating story


https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks&__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR0xqCNCuLplaTZ3rlDn7mOH0YThqLpd9yZA3VWiqHBqRcasMNj8_nGL0f4

Title: Re: The real life Lord of the Flies
Post by: Free Willy on May 13, 2020, 12:40:52 PM

Quote from: Nearly Sane on May 09, 2020, 09:50:40 AM

Fascinating story


https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks&__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR0xqCNCuLplaTZ3rlDn7mOH0YThqLpd9yZA3VWiqHBqRcasMNj8_nGL0f4

Humanist straw clutching.
The Lord of the Flies involved Public school boys taking control of an island and the population being killed horribly because of said public schoolboys. Now tell me that's not real.

Title: Re: The real life Lord of the Flies
Post by: Free Willy on May 13, 2020, 01:00:03 PM

William Golding in the response section to this article comes in for a bit of stick but I feel most of it ignores the fact that it is an allegory for the world as whole and as climate change shows us quite a good one.