A Decline into Savagery posted 1/16/2008 7:40:53 PM | 28 kudos what's this?     report abuse

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"Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law".
From Lord of the Flies, Chapter 4.

This passage describes the beginnings of Roger’s cruelty to the littluns, an important early step in the group’s decline into savagery. At this point in the novel, the boys are still building their civilization, and the civilized instinct still dominates the savage instinct.
The cracks are beginning to show, however.

This is a very clear picture of what seems to be happening here at Matchdoctor.
The very same cracks are showing in the blogs and forums.....
Some of you would benefit greatly from a re-reading ( I am going to assume you have AT LEAST seen the movie) of this story.
It would seem to me, there are a few folks here who are loosing their need to behave in a civilized manner, just because, over time, they have become like Roger..... insulated from any sort of need or desire to behave rationally. Releasing the Inner Beast.
The behavior by some here is becoming more and more savage. Right now your "rocks" are words. Soon I am afraid, if left to your own devices, you will be mounting heads of wild pigs on wooden stakes.....covered in flies..... and eventually killing each other.

To those who are slowly becoming "insulated" by the "beast".... (the Internet), because of the lack of personal connection and/or a fading of the basic responsibility to other's feelings as a fellow human beings....
I say this.....

In the end, it is you who will come to realize your own self made predicament. And it will be you who broke the glasses, and the conk shell....It will be you alone, standing on the deserted beach, cold ....and hungry... for warmth and love.....and you alone left standing in a jungle of evil, conversing with the Lord of the Flies.



It is here, we gather to light the signal fire. Those who cling to reason and sanity! We must climb to the top of the mountain and build it together..... Let us light it! And be diligent in keeping it burning bright!
So that we might be rescued from this forsaken place. Together!


Stay Tuned,

I do

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