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• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Funny enough, not in the cynical, depressing way William Goulding postulated and many of us were forced to read in English class. :D

  newsweek.com/real-lord-flies-true-story-boys-isla…

  It’s nice when humanity isn’t the tragically disgusting thing we’re often forcefully told it is. (Usually as some way to justify State-enforced law and order via violence.)

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    seriously, the more you actually read up about human history and biology the more you see that we’re just… kinda fucking great, when we’re not constantly torturing ourselves and trying to justify it like stockholm syndrome’d abuse victims.

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• JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was gonna say wasn’t Lord of the Flies literally a critique of society?

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  • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, but a satirical one, not one to be taken literally.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I suppose it’s also worth mentioning that time some kids actually got stranded on an island and ended up developing a functional community.

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        yeah, as it turns out humans are actually inherently mutualistic and when faced with adversity will reliably organize quite well.

        because, like, that’s a pretty handy feature to evolve as a social species.

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