Chronosynclastic Infundibulum

Just finished the book “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding. It is one of the best books I have read so far. The metaphors in the book are amazingly accurate to the last letter. Gotta admit, its a work of a genius.
For those who havent read it, Lord of the Flies is about a group of kids who are the only survivors of a plane crash in a remote island. They must now adjust to the living world without adult authority or rules. They must find a way to organize themselves into a society for their physical survival and social justice. The book illustrates this formation of scoety and rules with phenomenal accuracy. In fact, this book is used as a reference in many sociology courses when they talk about gang behavior, peer pressure and trying the explain the inherent tendency of man to identify himself with a group, form a communal identity. I will not talk anymore about the book, wouldn’t want to spoil it for others.
What takes the cake is to actually see the book in action in your everyday life. The hunger for power, the lust to wield authority, the desire for exclusivity, it all graphically, but metaphorically, depicted in the ‘Lord of the Flies’. And I got to see it all in action in a mailing group. At first I was kinda taken aback by the reaction that I saw to an ‘intrusion’ into the clique, but as the sat back and watched the flood of messages being posted it didnt take too long for me to put it all in place, they fit like a jigsaw puzzle. Golding had it all figureed out, and I was watching a live experiment simply validating what he wrote! What a rush!!!