▪️The first sentence of this quote is from Golding, but the rest isn’t. It’s from a contemporary black author almost no one has heard of, Erick Gray. The meme makes a tiny note of an “addendum” by Gray, but the viewer is left believing the quote is from Golding.
https://william-golding.co.uk/internationalwomensday
▪️The real Golding quote is much less flattering. He’s explaining why he used all boys in the Lord of the Flies, not girls:
🔹“if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be. Don’t ask me why, and this is a terrible thing to say because I’m going to be chased from hell to breakfast by all the women who talk about equality — this is nothing to do with equality at all. I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been. But one thing you can’t do with them is take a bunch of them and boil them down, so to speak, into a set of little girls who would then become a kind of image of civilisation, of society.”
You can hear the clip here:
https://youtu.be/vYnfSV27vLY?si=sM_XDX9V8DHhJdqd
▪️Golding’s lasting influence was to insert a pessimism about the nature of man into our culture, most of us had to read The Lord of the Flies in school. But our teachers never gave us the counter, real world example of a group of school boys who shipwrecked and survived, working largely in harmony and peace.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shipwreck-deserted-island-south-pacific-survivors-60-minutes-2021-07-18/
▪️Instead, we were taught to believe the opposite about boys, that they are on the precipice of being savages, and if left on their own would descend into barbarism. All based on the imagination of Golding, a writer who raped a girl and ended up spending the bulk of his life as a depressed alcoholic.
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
This is almost laughingly misleading, as it leaves out everything before the letter.
▪️After being repeatedly lampooned by the Smothers Brothers over Vietnam, Johnson finally had enough. One night at 3 am he called the head of CBS William Paley, demanding that he “get those bastards off my back.”
▪️Paley then asked the heads of CBS entertainment to get them to back off of LBJ. However, instead of backing off the Smothers Brothers doubled down, booking a folk musician performing “Waist Deep,” an anti-war song about a soldier being stuck in the mud while “the big fool says to push on,” clearly a dig at LBJ.
▪️At the last minute, CBS cut the song from the pre-taped show to the outrage of the Smothers. They continued to push the boundaries off and on for the rest of his presidency, with CBS sometimes cutting segments that they thought went too far. Basically, it was a soft form of censorship.
▪️It wasn’t until Johnson made his surprise announcement not to run in 1968 ...
