From Wikipedia:
The story begins with a large number of boys, ages 6 to 12, stranded on a tropical island with no tools to survive, except for a knife. They were being evacuated from a war and their plane had been shot down...The thought of this group of children, left to run their own affairs can lead to nothing good in the eyes of most. This fear is certainly demonstrated in the reactions to the CBS reality show Kid Nation which debuted this year.
Personally I never watched that show because it sounded like a crap idea for a television program. That said, I frequently wonder, when reading the news if the idea of children running the show is really all that terrible - if we would really be any worse off.
For example, in the news this week a British woman was threatened with death because someone didn't like the name of her teddy bear and a group of Alberta adults got together and decided that a little girl couldn't play soccer with their children because they didn't like her hat.
Most children I know at least have a grasp on some basic rules like - no hitting, if you make a mess clean it up, share what you have and don't call people names - lessons, apparently, that many world leaders and key decision makers have yet to grasp.
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