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Secret Service scandal: Agents get into a fistfight outside Obama's residence
(www.latintimes.com)
this post was submitted on 29 May 2025
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Isn't the whole point of Lord of the Flies that the adults ain't better and any level of civilisation is just a thin layer on top? From the beginning that the boys told themselves they were the social elite and had civilized manners, which would make it easy for them to retain civilization to the end
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where the captain of the army ship that rescued them just asked something along the line of "what have you boys been up to? Playing war?"The point of Lord of the Flies is that the upper class are always brutal savages.
This, and that modern civilization is only four collective missed meals away from brutality.
Thats largely untrue though. In crises people come together. The term academics use is "spontaneous self organization". It's really just the upper classes who turn to brutality at every possible opportunity.
Having grown up in a poor working-class area, the only spontaneous self-organization I ever witnessed was the formation of gangs. It's not just the toffs. It's just that their privilege lets them get away with it more often.
I mean, to some extent that's exactly what gangs are.
I mean it varies from place to place, but often gangs are semi organized groups of people with the primary goals of protecting their territory and funding their operations. Often their territory is otherwise underserved by police protection, so taking personal action feels necessary.