[bregma]

> Did I just described rich kids?

You just described Lord Of The Flies.

Be mindful of fundamental human nature and how it shapes everything we do, including all our social constructs. Few people are, which make mindlessness the dominant modus operandi.

[throwthrowuknow]

Lord of the Flies was a fictional novel, it never happened, it’s not real and shouldn’t be used to inform your thinking.

Especially when real life instances of groups of young children being stranded without adult help exist and play out in ways directly opposite of the novel’s central thesis.

[WalterBright]

You can make any society work if you're writing fiction.

For example, Star Trek is Roddenberry's idea of a utopia. A benevolent dictator with his happy ship of comrades all rowing together. (But hey, I enjoyed watching it!)

STTNG amps that up even further. It got so heavy-handed with it I lost interest in it.

[dqv]

I'm not understanding how you're extrapolating Lord of the Flies from what they're saying. A key part of "raised to be empowered by creation and creativity" would involve parents and other adults to do that. I haven't read the book in a while, were they stranded on the island with their parents?

[wiseowise]

> Be mindful of fundamental human nature and how it shapes everything we do, including all our social constructs. Few people are, which make mindlessness the dominant modus operandi.

What is the fundamental human nature in your opinion?

[bsenftner]

Adapation

[21asdffdsa12]

True mindfulness is to know when the machine breaks, why it breaks and to recognize known flaws of the machine, for example to assume that all others are automatons running on low-energy heuristics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_f...