William Golding's 1954 novel "Lord of the Flies" chronicles the adventures of a group of British schoolboys marooned on a remote island during a future war. The boys set out to create their own civilization, but absent structure and adult supervision, the group descends into tribalism, superstition, and chaos. Two boys even die as their "society" decays.
Despite the promise of the Biden administration and its accompanying mythical "Progressive Renassaince," so to speak, the adults have not been in charge for some time now, and the state of the nation shows it.
To compare the United States in the 21st century to Golding's novel is almost pedantic. But more often than not, chaos, or something that lies very close to the line of chaos, is the order of the day. It is no secret that we have become less civil in the last decade. We need look no further than the riots, mass shopliftings, drug-fueled squalor, and homeless assaults to see that. In fact, we need look no further than the schools.
For example, what do we make of this? It took place Friday at Hazelwood High School in Missouri.
GRAPHIC: A student in @HazelwoodSD is in the hospital in critical condition after being brutally beaten with her head smashed against the pavement by a mob of students.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 10, 2024
Multiple people watch and do nothing.
You won’t hear about this story on the MSM. pic.twitter.com/dGzr2Kn6HP
As long as there have been schools, there have been fights. But throughout my high school career, no one was left convulsing on the ground because of one. But should we be surprised? After all, no one really gets hurt when this kind of thing happens on TikTok or Instagram, right?
The lack of civility, brought on by pandemic panic, social media, and academic and political parasites, is all too common in every quarter. Last week, I saw a man, who apparently fancied himself a discount Hell's Angel, weaving in and out of traffic and flipping off people who were driving the speed limit because they were in his way. I have reached the point that I am surprised when I hear the words "excuse me" or "I'm sorry" in public without thinking I have slipped into a parallel universe.
But Gad Saad eventually said the quiet and uncomfortable part out loud.
Imagine for a second that the races were reversed. But in this case, the story will disappear into an abyss of virtuous progressive apathy. No healthy society can withstand such realities.
No writer wants to go there, especially a white writer, since doing so means risking being marked with a "Scarlet R." But Saad is right. If the roles were reversed, there would be marches, vigils, boycotts, and who knows what else. Joy Reid, Ibram X Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, every member of the media, and most of academia would light up the airwaves with choruses about the evils of whiteness and white privilege, white tears, white rage, white violence, etc. All of that hatred in schools, social media, books, and magazines, coupled with the DOJ and Joe Biden who warn about the dangers of white supremacy at every turn, is eventually bound to bear fruit. Some of it is ridiculous, such as the wag who whined that there were no black people in the reboot of "Shogun" (which is set in Japan in the 1600s). But there is the very real animus that the Left is so intent on creating. Growing up, I had no shortage of black friends. If we were reunited today, would be glad to see one another, or would we circle each other warily?
Chaos need not be the default setting for humanity. But it makes things much easier for those who wish to run every aspect of our lives to do so. Nothing is easier to exploit than people who are weary of a life that has been spun out of control.
