The most dangerous time since the Civil War

[Kinser79]

(01-11-2018, 04:44 AM)Galen Wrote:

(01-11-2018, 04:12 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(01-10-2018, 04:11 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: 2. The schools had rules. Teaching was to rigid a career to satisfy the peace-love-dope types.

Only partially true.  A surprisingly large number of my teachers were former hippies--which probably goes a long way to explain my hatred of hippies.

I encountered my share of former hippies as teachers and they weren't very good at it.  The older teachers were tended to be better unless they had gotten to the point where they were waiting for the pension check.

Even then the older teachers were still better.

I literally had a Disco Boomer teacher of mine try to convince me that Lord of the Flies was expressly about the human tendency toward brutality, never mind the fact that wars are almost always fought over resources and not out of some perverse sense of prestege--that simply put the boys in the choir simply would never have had to start with and would likely not obtain from fire hardened sticks.

Nevermind the way the island itself is, as described, unlikely to have have the requisite resources to support a breeding population of porcine creatures.  At most the children would revert to a gatherer subsistance living off a combination of fruit and shellfish.  Primitive peoples typically seek out the easy sources of food first before resorting to hunting and that means as a consequence gathering and scavenging.  And that is before we even consider that the human population of the island would likely be halved in a matter of weeks since we're speaking of a tropical island, with exotic fruits, and British children that seem to lack a general method of determining edible plants from toxic ones.

At most I would say that the book, if it describes the human condition at all, merely points out that unless someone takes on a leadership role by some means, means to fill that leadership role will be found and eventually a hierarchy will be established.