[Pontiac]

I know they consider it a literary masterpiece and I guess it is but when they made us read it in jr hs along with so many other pessimistic, depressing, negative books well, I just feel there was some pandering to a certain outlook on life by liberals at the time who thought it was the mark of superiority to be extremely shocking and negative.

Actually those books fit well in to a classic liberal arts education.

Except that modern education leaves out the most important part of a Classic Liberal Arts Education; God and Religion.

In the past these books would have been taught in the context of civilization and the root of civilization that is God. God’s rule makes civilization possible.

Without God civilization falls in to might equals right, the strong survive and the rest fall to will of the strong or perish.

The teaching of these books are worse than useless without that background.

These books are the cautionary tales of what the world is like without God.

And unfortunately the Left is hell bent on taking us there.

[Flycatcher]

These books are the cautionary tales of what the world is like without God.

Well put. And Lord of the Flies is singularly brilliant in this way.