Neverland is actually a utopia.
What caused the tragedy of humanity in their world was the overlap of two things.
One, there are strict classes in the ghost world. The class system leads to inequality between the rich and the poor, a few ghosts have the majority of rights, and many ghosts live in poverty.
Two, ghosts eat people. In front of people, ghosts have absolute power advantages. It can be said that ghosts are predators. Cannibalism is a symbol of power and status in ghost society. The most powerful ghost "king" can enjoy the most top-level feast. Ordinary ghosts can only buy some stumps to eat, and poor ghosts can't eat people at all.
The story does not explain the origin of ghosts, nor does it explain the social structure of ghosts in detail. Just looking at the design of the farm and the mastery of language, one can imagine ghosts as Neanderthals or another human being.
In the first season, neither of these reasons was explicitly addressed. The audience only knows that people are raised as animals. Under such a setting, the protagonist and his party show extraordinary wisdom and courage, fighting against the cannibalistic capitalist society (for example) like proletarian fighters. In the temporary shelter, they briefly established a self-sufficient communist society, which was maintained not by interests but by kinship. It can be considered that they are the most ideal community of interests, siblings, comrades, and absolute and inseparable "we". And their beliefs are not religions, but predecessors like Marx and Engels.
This contrasts with the team led by Norman in season two, where he lies to gain trust and assumes the role of a leader, almost like a military leader. It is also the emergence of this team that has led to the emergence of two camps in human society. If the leaders of the two camps cannot reach an agreement, and there is no family that has grown and developed together before, then the Norman side is likely to be blinded by hatred like the one under him. The lady with eyes pointed her hatred at Emma and her team, who were also human.
The reason Emma wants to build a peaceful world is because she sees similarities in people and ghosts. But the story doesn't delve into the issue, it just goes to the point. This also manifests itself in another untouched issue, which is Emma's empathy for the ghosts' pain and not being able to empathize with the fish and birds. In essence, this is also the similarity between human and ghost. Ghosts cannot empathize with human suffering, and for ghosts living in towns, the arms in those containers are like chicken legs.
Emma wanted to be a god, free from the suffering of all spirits, but she wasn't, she couldn't. In order to survive, she also killed, and had no choice but to put a flower on the corpse. Even if she prayed to the gods, she was no different from an evil ghost.
In addition, ghosts eat people, and people eat people. The problems that will exist in the ghost society should also exist in the Neverland they yearn for, that is, the human world behind the door.
Unlike our world, in their world there is a beyond and a solution. The other side is the normal and prosperous human world (the United States), where people live happily and freely, without war and killing. As long as you set foot on this land, you can gain eternal freedom. The answer is the blood of the evil-blooded ghost, which can quell the desires of the devil and relieve the threat to human beings. To a certain extent, the evil-blooded ghost is the real savior.
But there is no such other shore in our world, and no such answer.
If you want to change the animation to be more in line with the real world, you only need to change one thing, and that is at the end, turning that door to a brave new world into a meat grinder.
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