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I wonder if kids are actually better at surviving than adults in those situations. Especially young babies, they are very chubby for a reason. We have to remember that although surviving 40 days without a parent is extreme, it’s probably pretty common in our history.
The kids are indigenous and knew how to find food. Kids from the city would probably not be able to survive this long...
The youngest was actually an 11-months old baby that spent their first birthday in the jungle. On one hand I am surprised that they managed to take care of the baby for that long, on the other hand this is a comment from a Western man weakened by modern society while those are indigenous kids, with a keener instinct and knowledge of nature than we give them credit for. Put on a remote island, any of these kids will p…
In the right conditions it's easier to survive than many assume. To be honest with statements like "their survival is a sign of a knowledge and relationship with the natural environment of life, which is learned from the mother’s womb and practiced from a very early age" I think there's a lot of "native fetishism" and woo-woo thinking going on here. In this case the kids apparently also ate food drops, and were malnourished when found.
I don't want to come of as too cynical or dismissive, because of course it's an amazing story! The real miracle is that they survived the plane crash at all, and the survival is more "amazing story" than "amazing miracle".
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Your mean the crash or the wild life? I believe children are worse at both. On the other hand, they need to find less fruits to survive ... maybe adults need to eat to much to survive in improvised conditions? Like, it is way easier to find a small amount of fruits?
Also what is the starting point. An overweight or obese person who isn't doing lot of hard work during period and have enough water could probably survive a long time with just some supply of vitamins and nutrients.
I'm not surprised. Lord of the Flies was always a misanthropic fantasy fueled on Western dog eat dog-ideologies, our modern ideologies take this weird contemporary "kids are useless little fragile eggs" approach. Kids are neither as evil nor as helpless as our culture makes them. I think it was David Graeber (I'll have to go look for it)= who once recounted the story of islander children getting lost on a boat and wa…
I'm not surprised. Lord of the Flies was always a misanthropic fantasy fueled on Western dog eat dog-ideologies, our modern ideologies take this weird contemporary "kids are useless little fragile eggs" approach. Kids are neither as evil nor as helpless as our culture makes them. I think it was David Graeber (I'll have to go look for it)= who once recounted the story of islander children getting lost on a boat and wa…
Literate people live in a bubble and that is not "our" society either?
The youngest was actually an 11-months old baby that spent their first birthday in the jungle. On one hand I am surprised that they managed to take care of the baby for that long, on the other hand this is a comment from a Western man weakened by modern society while those are indigenous kids, with a keener instinct and knowledge of nature than we give them credit for. Put on a remote island, any of these kids will p…