There have been a few televised attempts at replicating “Lord of the Flies” with actual children. Turns out they were as spectacularly successful as you might expect:
It’s unsurprising that kids left alone will eventually devolve into little monsters. But it’s rather surprising to me just how quickly this happened. One wonders how things might have changed had the children been raised in strict families that stressed discipline, or how it would have turned out with feral street kids. Could “properly raised” kids have permanently rejected the urge to turn into little ᛋᚻᛁᛏweasels? Or would it have only been delayed?
Perhaps the greatest force for civilization is self control. Children of course are not as capable of it as adults. But “not as capable” doesn’t mean “incapable,” and at the same time a whole lot of adults are incapable of self control (see recent posts on yeeting these mofos through cracks int he space-time continuum). Seems to me that self-control is something that schools should devote more time to.