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The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
(www.theguardian.com)
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Unironically yes. Iirc it was basically making fun of a genre of fiction of the time where European/British kids would bring "civilization" to wherever they were stranded.
It's pretty explicit about it too. They're replicating the systems and violence they were taught, to a backdrop of nuclear war and ongoing fighting between surviving military elements. When they're rescued, after hunting down and murdering one of their own, it's by a hunter/killer sub that's still actively hunting for targets even after the world ended.