The Christless Society of the Lord of the Flies

 

… In the meantime, the two groups regress to savagery

… an orgiastic rite, they kill

… man’s violent and brutal nature

… “Man produces evil as a bee produces honey”

… to refute Golding’s thesis with a true story

… The boys had organized themselves by dividing the tasks

… has always been read as an anthropological text

… reject Aristotelian metaphysics as well as moral and religious law

… a society without the Catholic Church, founded by Christ. Extra Ecclesia, nulla salus

   

 

                  Rutger Bregman – The Guardian

 

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