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That's the first thing that came to my mind too. But well, that's just one vision, an imaginary experiment, of how humans would behave, or worse, how young teenagers would isolated from their environment. (and how much of their environment would they bring to the island to start with?)

But on a very pessimistic days, I'd say LotF wouldn't be that far from the truth...

by Nomad on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 10:07:09 AM EST
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Just as imaginary as Hobbes', or Locke's, or Rousseau's, or Hume's state of nature

And as fictional as reality TV.

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 10:09:03 AM EST
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