@edwiebe "Golding got the idea for the plot from The Coral Island, a children's adventure novel with a focus on Christianity and the supposed civilising influence of British colonialism. Golding thought that the book was unrealistic and asked his wife whether it would be a good idea if he "wrote a book about children on an island, children who behave in the way children really would behave?" "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies#Background
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Random reminder that, despite what you read in "Lord of the Flies", when a real group of teenagers happened to get stranded on a inhabited island, they didn't start killing each other. -
Random reminder that, despite what you read in "Lord of the Flies", when a real group of teenagers happened to get stranded on a inhabited island, they didn't start killing each other.Random reminder that, despite what you read in "Lord of the Flies", when a real group of teenagers happened to get stranded on a inhabited island, they didn't start killing each other. On the contrary they worked together, built a commune, and survived in good health for 15 months (when they were saved by a passing ship).
Most people are good people. Even teenagers
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When you look into the void, the void looks back...@catsalad I am 70% sure these are just googly eyes on a black mat
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Whenever some politician or party apologist whines about having to stay on twitter because some of our potential voters are on twitter, remind them that probably even more of their potential voters are on pornhub but they are not active there.@etchedpixels There was a guy teaching Maths on PornHub, so why not politicians explaining what they stand for? (Especially if they have strong opinions on censorship, sex work etc etc)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/math-tutor-video-lessons-pornhub-changhsu/