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Tequila_Wolf wrote

What I like a lot about this meme is that it shows how much people's idea of what humanness is comes down to the very limited world that they've been exposed to.

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catachresis wrote

There was a regular at a restaurant I used to work at; he was a 10th grade English teacher and his favorite book was lord of the flies.

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PeterPanarchy wrote

It shows how society descends into chaos and murder if order isn't maintained.

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Potkea wrote

A little over a decade after Golding published Lord of the Flies, another group of boys became marooned on a Pacific Island, but this time it wasn’t fictional. In the summer of 1965, six teenage boys decided to break the monotony of their incarceration at a strict Catholic boarding school in Nuku‘alofa, the capital of the sparsely-populated Tonga archipelago. Expropriating a boat from a widely-hated fisherman, the boys embarked on a 500 mile odyssey to Fiji, bringing neither a map nor compass for their adventure. Their recklessness cost them dearly, and they became quickly lost at sea. The boys washed up on the small island of ‘Ata, a rocky wasteland stripped of human life for over a century by slave traders and buried in obscurity by its ostensible inhabitability and dark past. Over a year later, a stroke of luck brought the Australian fisherman Peter Warner on a short detour to ‘Ata, where he discovered the presumed-dead boys and brought them home.

Two groups of boys marooned remotely in the Pacific: the first as fiction, the second as fact. While the circumstances of their maroonment and the material conditions of their habitats are quite dissimilar, the chasm between fantasy and reality gives us deep insight into the human condition. Unlike Golding’s fictional British boys, the isolation did not kill the humanity of the castaways, but strengthened it. The real castaways valued cooperation over competition. Labor was divided up by roster. Discord was calmed peacefully, by respectful conversation and self-isolation. Despite the often wet and stormy climate of Oceania’s archipelagos (and in deep contrast with Golding’s book) the boys maintained a rescue fire uninterrupted for fifteen months. Captain Warner was astonished at the community that the castaways had built:

the boys had set up a small commune with food garden, hollowed-out tree trunks to store rainwater, a gymnasium with curious weights, a badminton court, chicken pens and a permanent fire, all from handiwork, an old knife blade and much determination.

https://notesofpotkea.wordpress.com/2022/04/01/from-disaster-to-utopia/

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kin wrote

You seem to dislike Entropy.

Can I have you interested in some harsh reality?

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