This Guardian article about “the real Lord of the Flies” (an excerpt from Rutger Bregman’s upcoming book Humankind) describes a situation in 1966 where six teenage boys were stranded on a remote island for over a year. Spoiler alert: they didn’t descend into anarchy. (A comforting conclusion given the state of the world today.)
It’s time we told a different kind of story. The real Lord of the Flies is a tale of friendship and loyalty; one that illustrates how much stronger we are if we can lean on each other.
A reference to 1 Corinthians 15:29. The figures at center represent mortals performing proxy baptisms for the dead; the white figures at the sides represent the spirits of the deceased watching and waiting for their work to be done.
A reference to Isaiah 45:23: “I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.”
