Are people this stupid to not understand that Golding's vision was an allegory of his own day? The dehumanizing experience of boarding schools, abuse, bullying, group-think vs. the rosy narratives proposed by boys adventure fiction? https://t.co/S6aaYSnsLM

— Joachim Boaz (@SFRuminations) May 9, 2020

My friend, they are indeed that stupid. Most cannot do a three-key keyboard shortcut with weeks of training.

So of course they do not understand literature, commentary, satire, authorship, abstraction, layers of meaning, ideas and their ecosystems, complex dynamic systems or even the existence thereof, or that the world can be any different than it is.

So no, most hardly understand anything at all.