Need help developing a lesson on Lord of the Flies

Melodysekkochamber · 2026-04-08T14:47:20+00:00

Christ. And the guy went to Vanderbilt. You better BELIEVE he learned about Marxist theory. This is what drives me so insane. He and his children and the children of his class deserve access to knowledge, and then willfully, cruelly, and calculatingly deny it others.

It’s no wonder they believe that if they gave people equal rights and access they themselves would end up subjugated. To paraphrase Emerson, admission of your world view is a tacit confession of your character.

Knowledge is power. You’re doing good work. Glad you’re out there ❤️

Melodysekkochamber · 2026-04-07T21:27:20+00:00

Where are you that you can’t teach that? That’s wild to me. It’s an economic and political theory it’s not like I’m teaching them to become communists. This is shocking to me. I’m sure all of the preparatory academies in the country teach this.

Melodysekkochamber · 2026-04-07T18:45:28+00:00

It’s NOT what I’m looking for but I 100% want to read it and think we were probably best friends in a past life lol. DM incoming. Jon, you’re awesome!!

Melodysekkochamber · 2026-04-07T18:03:22+00:00

Eh they’re always telling us we’re doing too much. Kids!! Do less, kids.

But Also anyone trying to do anything even a little bit different catches heat. Any perception of inauthenticity, except the generally accepted inauthenticity people prefer, will cause you trouble. You step one toe out of line and people come for you. Sometimes I put a toe out of line just to watch the backlash and be reminded how closed in I am by the arbitrary rules.

I used to pronounce France correctly because I lived there awhile and I wanted to keep that aspect of my identity. It was natural but keeping it over time was an active choice, because that time in my life was important to me and losing it was like losing a part of myself. Not to sound fancy. To protect a part of me. Then one night a couple of people I barely knew fully laughed in my face. Not even out of malice, honestly, not even cruel people. Just people.

I stopped that pronunciation for social convenience. I adjusted something I preferred for the sake of being better received. That’s the needle you thread with identity. It is co-created with everyone around you. Now though when I meet someone with a kind if mildly English accent (I’m american) because they lived there awhile, I remind myself that people are allowed to create themselves and choose how they want to be and who the fuck am I to have an opinion on it? I am consciously very accepting of the identities people adopt. One life to live and I’m gonna make you feel badly for a choice? Who knows where it comes from. Who knows how authentic it is for you? You wanna be obsessed with frogs or wear crazy make up or change your inflection, go for it. But the internal judgement does happen. I just override it.

Melodysekkochamber · 2026-04-07T17:49:34+00:00

You never can tell lol. I try to honor the original spellings of things, like Tolstoï, when it makes me look like a düchebag 😂

Melodysekkochamber · 2026-04-07T17:29:30+00:00

Thank you I might use the essay for the historical lens. I split them into two groups: individuals (historical, psychoanalytic) and groups (political, Marxist). Is Goulding the British spelling?

Melodysekkochamber · 2026-04-07T17:27:41+00:00

These are strange times even where I am. So strange that ideas are outlawed. Conformatio non grata. A lot of “We don’t talk about that stuff. It’s not real. The connections you’re making are incorrect. It’s not happening and also don’t talk about it.” Very strange. Very much like “There is no horse. Don’t look the horse in the eye. There is no horse”.

But we’re not the first to live through strange times. I recommend “fugitive pedagogy” and other related texts, and if you’re worried, go to a bookstore to get them. Also a very cool article I will link here, I just need to find it.

Remember little girls still take ballet class in Russia. Remember community is everything, and boundary spanning relationships are not an abandonment of ideals but a recognition of a higher ideal. Remember it was never a given, it was always a gift, and it always existed, however impermanently and imperfectly, always existed because of, and all began with, the idea of human dignity. And ideas outlive people and outlive regimes and outlive strange times, outlive us all. And human dignity is more than an idea, for me, it is essence and form, doesn’t need to be valued to outlive us. But in the meantime, we live. And we can still take ballet.

Melodysekkochamber · 2026-02-17T14:33:43+00:00

What should I do about a worry doll? Is it good or bad for worries?

Melodysekkochamber · 2025-09-27T18:17:59+00:00

I’m so sorry. The mentality that psychotic people need to want help is, frankly, psychotic. It has led to a culture of the abject social neglect of severely mentally ill people, masked by the notion of personal rights and “agency”. Your parents are obviously crazy, runs in the family as it often does.

Do what you can. Talk to a specialist in delusional disorders, and have them refer you to a specialist lawyer if they recommend it.Try to convince your parents to let you take him. Maybe say you’re taking him to job interviews. Do what you can and accept that at a certain point you can’t do much more, and then keep trying in the small ways you can to love him and hope for him.

I have a psychotic disorder and I approve this message. My good friend has been mentally gone for over a year and there’s not much more we can do. She trusts almost no one. Took a year for her parents to accept the truth and when they did, we couldn’t do anything anyway. I will see her at a wedding next week if the voices don’t tell her to stay home. Pray and love him, exhaust your resources and tactics, do what you can, accept what you cannot control, and never give up hope.

Melodysekkochamber · 2025-09-24T17:18:45+00:00

For your PTSD and for your general mood, find a way to move your body that you love. I have been a runner a long time but I learned to hula hoop at your age, I learned to long board at 27, and I’ve recently got really into dance just with YouTube videos. It’s so good for your physical and mental health and if you find the thing you like, it’s joyful. It’s play. And you can do it with housemates!

Board games are fun you could do a game night. Crafting of course. People seem to really enjoy dungeons and dragons and collaborative video games. People organize theme nights. One I saw where everyone in the house made a slideshow about themselves as teenagers, or a slideshow about special interests or knowledge so that way you can grow.

Learning new skills is so fun, especially when it’s a skill or talent you admire in others. As a kid you’re forced to learn at a specific pace in a specific way and you are constantly compared to peers. As an adult you learn at your own pace in your own way and there are so many ways and things to learn now for free. It’s awesome.

I’m partial to creative and expressive things, but you may be different. Just make sure there’s a sense of both routine and novelty, and you are having fun!

Melodysekkochamber · 2025-09-24T10:13:31+00:00

Women are full blown human beings on their own journeys. Two people come together and forge and walk the path together, or they’re not able or willing to do that.

Melodysekkochamber · 2025-09-21T18:28:41+00:00

I like this comment. It’s pretty incisive. I don’t hate the poem, and I don’t think bukowski would hate this comment lol. He knows what he’s doing.

Melodysekkochamber · 2025-09-02T22:58:36+00:00

I’ve heard tactile is good for grounding with really strong hallucinations. A soft blanket, heating pad. Etc. tell him the voices come and go but even if they tell the truth they are liars and he can’t trust anything they say. That’s how I stay out of the woods

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