#humanity posts — Ben Crowder https://bencrowder.net/blog/tag/humanity/ Feed for blog posts tagged with #humanity. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:22:16 GMT en-US https://bencrowder.net/ This Guardian article about “the real Lord of the Flies” (an excerpt from Rutger Bregman’s upcoming... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2020/784/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2020/784/ Sat, 09 May 2020 12:00:00 GMT 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.

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