David (formerly Zalasur) on Nostr: Occasionally someone brings up Lord of the Flies as some sort of real-life allegory ...

Occasionally someone brings up Lord of the Flies as some sort of real-life allegory of man's inhumanity to man, when it's nothing like that at all.

First, Lord of the Flies is fiction.

Not only is it fiction, it was based off of a real incident where a group of boys did get stranded on an island for a while until they were rescued. In the real life version, they all banded together, took care of the injured, and were in relatively good health when help finally arrived.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongan_castaways