Everyone who reads Lord of The Flies should also read about the Tongan Castaways to understand the difference between actual human nature and a very popular myth.
That would indeed be fascinating, the dynamic would be different. However from everything we know it’s sensible to assume it would’ve worked as well, given an island of sustainable size. It would most probably follow more of a village dynamic.
Too many people think of Lord Of The Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment (both nonsense as we know today) and believe they understood human nature, embittered. This annoys me.
Everyone who reads Lord of The Flies should also read about the Tongan Castaways to understand the difference between actual human nature and a very popular myth.
Or between human nature and the conditioned behaviour of English public schoolboys
rule of thumb, any debate where one side has evidence and it’s own academic field and the other one has a fictional story is not a debate.
damn, never heard of that. Very interesting read
One is a comment on society and the other is some teenage boys surviving a year on their own.
I would be curious if groups would have formed had twenty or more people been shipwrecked instead of a small group.
That would indeed be fascinating, the dynamic would be different. However from everything we know it’s sensible to assume it would’ve worked as well, given an island of sustainable size. It would most probably follow more of a village dynamic.
Too many people think of Lord Of The Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment (both nonsense as we know today) and believe they understood human nature, embittered. This annoys me.
Wow, this is so cool. I hadn’t heard of that, thanks for sharing