In honor of #Netflix new "Lord of the Flies" reboot, here's the true story of compassion and mutual aid that really happened when a group of schoolboys was shipwrecked for 15 months.
BTW William Golding who wrote the awful fiction was an alcoholic child abuser and sex abuser, expressed sympathy for Nazis, and professed that he wrote the hateful story based on his understanding of human nature. <archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/in-unpublished-memoir-lord-of-the-flies-author-is-said-to-hae-admitted-rape-attempt> #LordOfTheFlies
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