I read Bregman’s book and can recommend it. The boys in question collaborated, grew crops and fished. Whenever they had a fight amongst them they’d retreat to cool down. One of them broke his leg and the others cared for him.
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skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently from William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman
stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Armand1@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Anyone know what the movie mentioned in the article is called? Could be a fun niche watch.
sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
The movie mentioned turned out to be a 10 minutes long documentary:
Thebular@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hey, thanks man, that was an interesting read, perfect for insomniacs trying to fall asleep.
laranis@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Honestly, I think six is likely the right number for this to work. I don’t recall how many boys were in Lord of the Flies, but you get to 10-15 and you’re absolutely going to start forming factions. And a hierarchy. And with more opinions you get more disagreements, and you’re right back to Lord of the Flies.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
that’s a confident assertion with 0 evidence
skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Yeah, fragmenting into groups was an important part of the book.