The Lord of the flies strikes again!
“The Lord of the flies strikes again!”
Most do not understand your post as few have read the book. Your comment is most precise and correct. The book was about human nature devoid of the civilization and a descent into tribal instincts and survival. It was a brilliant book and a very dark novel.
The vernier of civilization is a very thin coating over tribal instincts. Oddly we see this today in “so called” modern politics. The left appeals to tribal instincts based on race and class.
Pray this vernier does not break. This vernier did break in the civil war. More men were lost than all our wars combined. Our population at that time was about 10% of what is today. Thus in those terms the losses to both North and South were ten times greater than all our later wars combined.