Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book. It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.
there’s a timeskip
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!
IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH
AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because
THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING
AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA
BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM
HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -
IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK
yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.
i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.
like its not the execution i would have gone for but that was still a fascinating character exploration for dennis. when dennis sees himself in his mind he is kind to workers. or he tries to be kind. he fantasises about frank not answering the phone. the violence and blood and murder associated with his character is only realised in his mind because he could never actually do it irl (aligning with what glenn has said about this). he fantasised about himself getting drenched in a storm on his way to the ceo. he wanted to make sure what happened to him didnt happen to other people. he feels behind with technology. every time he got angry he tried to stop himself. he feels like he needs to fantasise about catharsis instead of experiencing it irl. listen to your heart. i dont like when things turn out to not be real but the fact that all of that was constructed by dennis tells us SO much about how he sees himself and how he wants to be
dennis thinks he is so under control but he has to create elaborate intense fantasies to feel like he has a semblance of control over himself his body and his emotions he has to imagine his own catharsis and even then ends up being exaggerated and unrealistic to who we know he is. this is such a study dennis like a bug episode
Look at this point if something in a TV show feels off, my first, immediate response is, “who in the corporate office fucked them over?”
Wonky writing? Something feels rushed? Animation errors? First question should be, “Who was fucking over the production team? What were the censorship notes? Was this what the team actually wanted to do, or were they strong-armed?”
I think a lot of y'all are way too fast to blame the writers and animators for issues that wouldn’t exist if the studio executives and the censors weren’t fucking it up for everyone.
Pay the writers. Pay the actors. Pay the animators. And for god’s sake, stop blaming them for industry-wide issues that the unions are actively trying to fight against.
If the company’s TEAMSTERS strike, the PILOTS will strike??
YESSSS!!!
…Lemme put this in context. Airlines are HURTING FOR PILOTS. Flying is a very expensive hobby, and it’s very expensive to get a pilot’s license.
It used to be just about anybody could do that, but *gestures at minimum wage vs inflation* (federal minimum wage is around $8, yet we now need $28 to survive, folks, it’s gotten that bad) so of COURSE people aren’t able to become pilots!
And the Air Force, et al, aren’t flying as many planes because they’re investing more in drones than in pilots, so you can’t go into the military hoping to become a pilot that way, getting the military to pay for your training… (Plus there are hundreds and hundreds of people serving groundcrew for every single pilot, so the odds were always low to begin with.)
So combine all of that with the fact 3,300 pilots are saying they will also go on strike…
There aren’t enough spare pilots to fully scab their strike.
BTW for anyone too lazy to do the math a wage of $125 a day works out to about $15/hour for an 8-hour workday so….. someone in 1923 definitely had a vision of the future
if completing tasks feels so good and reminds me completing tasks is easy then why is starting them the emotional equivalent of sending my first born to war
