Erin Suzanne / Polis Labs

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Soon everyone will be watching @Netflix's new Lord of the Flies. So let me repeat what the great Peter Gray says about that story: IT. IS. FICTION. We can't use it as a reason to give kids less freedom because "this is what happens." No it isn't. (REAL story of 6 kids marooned on an island found them working cooperatively and rescued more than a YEAR LATER. Look up "Tongan Castaways.") As for the Netflix series, the book was adapted for the screen by Jack Thorne, co-writer of “Adolescence,” which was ALSO FICTION. These twin visceral, dystopian soap operas about how horrible kids are when left to their own devices -- left with not enough adult supervision -- have a tendency to seep under the skin because they are so dramatic and shocking. I just wish there was some way to dramatize how depressing it is to grow up with CONSTANT adult supervision. Mental health problems are soaring among kids and we keep hearing about how little they are allowed to do on their own. 50% of parents won't let their kids, 8-12, go to another aisle at the store. That stat is NOT FICTION. It could be what's crippling a generation with anxiety. But it is not DRAMATIC, so we just keep perseverating on how bad kids behave when they're not in travel soccer. variety.com/2026/tv/review…

* Confessions of a Recovering Effective Accelerationist: polislabs.substack.com/p/rewilding-th… Suzanne of Polis Labs writes: "Here I confess to being a recovering effective accelerationist. Blame it on the American techno-propaganda I was raised with, but I was initially seduced by Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto and its effective accelerationist ethos (aka, ”e/acc”). Coming off the post-COVID blahs, it seemed just the antidote we needed in the West to heal our cultural and spiritual malaise when I first read it in 2023. While I still think many of Andreessen’s arguments have merit, I’m concerned e/acc takes far too much of a materialist view of the world, and does not adequately address several current human pathologies including (but not limited to!) state violence, class warfare, environmental degradation, and corporate rapaciousness, which are not fixable through increased wealth and prosperity alone. I worry that going full e/acc risks leading us away from something like a Star Trek vision of the future toward a world closer to The Expanse. Technology itself is not a panacea for solving human coordination failures, nor can it fill the spiritual void that seems to accompany modernity. I conclude that on our current trajectory, the majority of future humans are more likely bound for a Belter-type existence than for Starfleet Academy."