> You’re probably familiar with _The Lord of the Flies_. We need order and authority, otherwise we’ll descend into savagery, right? Except this scenario has actually happened, and in real life the boys worked together peacefully to survive until help came.

Just figured I'd throw a cite in on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongan_castaways

William Golding had no special anthroplogical knowledge/training, he was just writing fiction.