A Quote on how ralph is independent?

“Meetings. Don’t we love meetings? Every day. Twice a day. We talk.”

He got on one elbow. “I bet if I blew the conch this minute, they’d come running. Then we’d be, you know, very solemn, and someone would say we ought to build a jet, or a submarine, or a TV set. When the meeting was over they’d work for five minutes, then wander off or go hunting.” (Ch.3)