burt777

burt777 t1_izx19g5 wrote

Rutger Bregman - Humankind is an excellent non-fiction book that will make you think twice about a lot of (negative) stereotypes about people in general.

He has a special place in his heart for the book Lord Of The Flies (tl;dr: a bunch of kids get trapped on an island, since they're too young to have learnt how to be civilised, all hell breaks loose and they turn savage on each other). The premise of the book had actually happened, except the kids took great care of each other, became best of friends, had the time of their lives.
A whole generation grew up praising LotF for it's "realistic" psychological depiction of human nature (read: cruelty.) What a shame....!

(And now, thanks to Bregman for pointing this out, they're making a movie of what actually happened!)

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