The Seeds of Our Own Destruction

While the outside world is destroying itself in World War III, a group of pre-teen boys mimics the destruction of civilization in microcosm. They have a leader who can not get people to cooperate, They prove to be a people who are more interested in sports Ultimately (hunting) and religion / superstition (the beast) than rescue, and who hate, torment, and kill the Eventually only intellectual among them. They reject the law (symbolized by the beautiful conch sounded the leader to call meetings) in favor of rule by violence, And They take a blood-thirsty new leader - who used to be head boy in a choir!
So who's the Lord of the Flies? One of the boys sees him in the decaying, flyblown head of a dead hog. He sees a god of death, destruction, and decay who lives in all of us and who, Given the opportunity, breaks free and destroys much of what makes life beautiful. It lives in us all - great and small - and we all contain the seeds of our own destruction.