There is a good book by Golding: The Lord of the Flies.
The story seems to be rather simple. It’s about a group of shipwrecked kids who find themselves on a desert island. With no adults in sight, what drives these kids is their instinct.
Golding’s tale is an eye-opener that displays a truth that is not so obvious these days: kids aren’t born good, in spite of what we seem to give for granted. It’s quite the opposite, actually. Men are born with the worst primordial instincts. The selfishness of the spirit of survival, but also violence and fear of those who are different from us (it looks like the Lega’s manifesto!)
Only with a solid education we learn those ideals that allow us to hide, deep in our soul, the primitive animals we once were.
In short, man’s evolutionary path starts low in order to reach the most noble ideals: fraternity, solidarity, and the love for our neighbors.
To simplify even further: we all start as Calderoli, but one day we’ll be Jesus Christ.
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