"Lord Of The Flies" is literally just an argument for imperialism.

Idk how to tag this.

A thought had recently crossed my mind, well it was actually two but one was utterly useless and I felt even more trite then the other equally trite one, about this piece of mediocrity from two years past. Well, it actually was less so about the mediocrity but more that surrounding it. How I, in a classroom setting, had been introduced to Goldwin's circle jerk of British imperialism and Christian anti-paganism was through the concept that it was a parody of the rise of novels promoting British Imperialism to children, shit such as the much mentioned Coral Island. Now, myself colored in a vibrant curiosity of Magenta and Violet, had picked up the book to find myself in a world of Goldwin stroking his old cock in all crevices due to him making such mediocrity so misunderstandable that anyone could theoretically add any message to it.

How the fuck did this book get considered a critique of imperialist thought in any sense?

I will not summarize as I'm sure most of us have at the very least heard a synopsis.

I am only going to go over what this pseudo-philosophical and pseudo-intellectual book (degradation intended) makes an argument for European imperialism. I will say that I am not going to put quotes in, I am lazy and tired and don't think they're needed for something most of us probably have read.

Firstly, in order to understand this argument, we must first understand hold Goldwin bastardised what a civilization is and the morals of one. To put in utter simplicity, this man doesn't understand moral flexibility and has a very narrow view of what society is. He uses the tribal aesthetic without understanding of tribes as civilisations themselves. A tribe is just a small civilisation and thus has the regular you would expect -- culture, beliefs, traditions -- but in Goldwin's book he uses tribes and the tribal aesthetic, nakedness and paint, as a shorthand for savagery and violence. He uses them as a way to say that these people, these tribes, are dumb savages who would kill those trying to help or inform them (the death of the books Jesus figure, Simon). And in this, what must be done to help these savages?

The savages must be informed, someone so clearly above them must show up and say "tut tut, you children done wrong, your beliefs are bad" and 're-educate' them by taking them from their homes to Catholic communions.

The entire thing about this book is savagery v civ and that humans are innately bad, but it forgets to even look at civilisation, and the side whatever the fuck the main characters name's side. It gets so euphoric stroking itself that its idea defaults into civ good savage bad without taking any sort of look at either side. It feels like a disappointment to the art that is literature, so much that I cannot even call it a novel. Is it just me that feels this or what?