I both dislike the book and dislike this comic for missing the actual point of the book, which is not in fact, haha, this is what would actually happen and it’s just a group of random kids. It was specifically portraying british aristocratic children to criticize the colonizer mindset while discussing larger issues of human nature amd civility and structure vs chaos.
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iamdisappoint@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I hated that damn book, but this (complete with conch) is hilarious.
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I haven’t read the book but how did it criticize the colonizer mindset? A cursory look makes it seem like a justification of paternalistic authority, so propaganda for kids to blindly listen to their parents haha.
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
It was specifically a contrast on the colonizer mindset that was common both in culture and literature at the time. Showing a bunch of useless british aristocrats coming to “savage lands” and rather than taming the land they were shown that without their wealth and power and being taken care of by competent natives and labourers they became the savages they claimed to be inherently divinely better than.
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Can I ask why? It was actually one of my favorites in school, so just curious for a differing opinion.
theneverfox@pawb.social 2 months ago
I hated it because it was totally unbelievable, just a paternalistic rationalization for authority
I was confronted with the knowledge that the adults around me all thought the only thing keeping me from murdering someone was layers of rules and supervision. Like we’re all just rabid animals barely held back by a watchful eye
Even then, I knew myself better than that. I knew people better than that
But that’s how our society treats people. Like monsters that must be managed
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Hmm, interesting. To be fair, I haven’t read it since HS and that was…decades ago. Based on what you said I might reread and reassess.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Humans aren’t monsters until they reach a critical mass. Then they’re just awful.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe it was presented to him as required school reading so that’s why he hated it 😜
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I liked that book. It was eye-opening. And kinda made me appreciate the relative orderliness we have in a society run by adults. As much as kids would love to run wild & free with no supervision, but I was fortunate to be a child of the 1970’s & 80s so I enjoyed the perfect balance of wild freedom with parental care at the end of every day.
Bababasti@feddit.org 2 months ago
If it’s really that eye-opening is debatable I would see. As another user has posted it already, this is a more realistic scenario: theguardian.com/…/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what…
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well imagine if one of the kids was young Donald Trump. Pretty sure it would be different.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not really, he would disappear early on.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
The idea of you debating their subjetive experience sounds funny
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Lord of the flies is not based on a true story
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reading it in the early 00s it made me wish I lived somewhere far more interesting with far more wild classmates.
All the rules and restrictions were so internalised, I think if we were abandoned on an island half of them would just sit still and starve.
I can’t imagine any of them being interesting enough to try to start their own religious cult or anything.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 months ago