Posted on 05/03/2015 7:43:52 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
--SNIP-- "The Lord of the Flies" was a novel written in 1954 by the English author William Golding. It describes what happens to a group of upper-class English schoolboys when their plane crash-lands on a deserted island and all the adults are killed. The kids try to build a society of their own, but with no adult guidance, they descend into tribalism and savagery.
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Hmmm sounds like Chicago in the book Divergent.
You can’t say tribalism anymore. That’s “racist” like thugs.
Interesting points. The problem is that the Democratic Party and the political caste of those places have a vested interest in resisting any change and crushing any new ideas.
John Blake certainly nailed that one. In Baltimore, the inmates (and potential inmates) are indeed running the asylum as law enforcement is told to stand down.
How long will it take for Baltimore to become another collapsed city like Detroit?
I thought Obama said he wasn’t going to Baltimore.
Actually I prefer to update the metaphor to Mad Max beyond the Thunderdome.
This is a recent in Baltimore the Thunderdome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHU6K47qgc8
In the film/book the little savages changed “kill the pig, kill the pig”. They had spears, in Baltimore they had chunks of concrete.
Fly swatting in the suburbs.
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