Too late to edit so I'm replying to my own comment. I also wanted to mention that there is a place where the Lord of the Flies approach has been taken to its l

Too late to edit so I'm replying to my own comment. I also wanted to mention that there is a place where the Lord of the Flies approach has been taken to its logical extreme, in a long-running experiment which continues to this day. That place is the British boarding school system. It messes people up so badly that it even has its own psychological condition: Boarding School Syndrome [1]. The fact that many of our political leaders come from this system should be a cause for concern. [1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/secondaryeducation/11662001/The-truth-about-boarding-school-syndrome.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/secondaryeducation/1166...