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Comment author: Nornagest 18 February 2014 09:42:27PM *  2 points [-]

It's particularly apropos that Lord of the Flies is common required reading in American high schools.

Comment author: taelor 19 February 2014 01:57:29AM 7 points [-]

Paul Graham on the subject:

If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies. Like a lot of American kids, I read this book in school. Presumably it was not a coincidence. Presumably someone wanted to point out to us that we were savages, and that we had made ourselves a cruel and stupid world. This was too subtle for me. While the book seemed entirely believable, I didn't get the additional message. I wish they had just told us outright that we were savages and our world was stupid.

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