Post #1481365
2026-02-16 09:47 UTC
@j_bertolotti He wrote a book about how children brought up under the “civilising influence of British colonialism” would really behave. It was an anti-propaganda piece. He was right, but I don’t see how this says anything about human nature. Schools like Eton have a whole program to churn out boys who think the rest of us are weak for having emotions like caring for others, and the hazing rituals are similar to all that military crap that also intends to break down normal human empathy.
Replies (1)
-
@Frantasaur@mastodon.ie 2026-02-16 10:11
@j_bertolotti “At one point, Golding described setting his students up into two groups to fight each other – an experience he drew on when writing Lord of the Flies.[16]” Wow, well I guess he genuinely thought that he was studying real human behavior, but what he was studying was the “Epstein Class” of powerful men who can get away with things like “he tried to rape a teenage girl with whom he had previously taken piano lessons” 😱😱😱