Since anomie has been brought to the table

[alice wellintown]

>
> I respectfully disagree on all counts.
>
> 1. Golding hit upon some truth about part of human behavior.

I can agree to this.

> 2. Great historians may likewise communicate truths artists only allude to.

Sure.

> 3. The Thin Red Line was a better book than it was a movie, and it was
> not Jones's best novel, did not get to the
> bottom of anything, really, but offered some deep insights into the
> modern Western warrior culture and psyche as had no work before it.

Never read it, but I think the film did a fine job of calling
attention to the non-human casualties of human conflicts.