[Olog-hai]

Full title: 'We are so medieval': Malcolm McDowell says A Clockwork Orange is becoming reality, 45 years after its release

It would actually be worse in many respects.

[Fiddlstix]

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[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[who_would_fardels_bear]

Loved the book.

Loved the movie.

Love McDowell. He's a great actor and always makes movies better than they otherwise would be.

I don't necessarily agree with him about our supposed "overuse" of prisons. Especially since prisons in America aren't anywhere near as medieval as they are in other places around the world, and seem to be a cakewalk in some instances.

[Smokin' Joe]

Remember, Brave New World and 1984 came before A Clockwork Orange. We have aspects of both of the former. Written as sci fi/horror, someone decided they'd be a good thing...

[Crucial]

Leftism is medieval. Tearing the family apart has done incalculable damage including paving the way for youths to become criminals in massive numbers.

[a fool in paradise]

They were pill popping and some were dope smoking and coke snorting even in the 40s and 50s. Certainly by the 1960s there was an underculture of ne’er-do-wells engaging in petty crimes and anti-social thrills.

[Rockpile]

Today we have Proogs. You can see them occupying Streets, on college campuses, in small Missouri cities, filling up editorial offices and TV stations and many other places.

[Mr. Mojo]

[McDowell] told the New York Daily News: 'It's amazing how there's so many people incarcerated in America. 'We are so backward in our thinking, we are so medieval.'

So what would he instead have us do with those who break the law, lock them in a room and play little of the old Ludwig Van, without the painful aversion therapy part?

[clearcarbon]

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Hi, hi, hi Mr. Deltoid...

[PA Engineer]

McDowell explains how the Stanley Kubrick film shows a 'world in which all older people stay indoors with televisions on'.

Odd. Most older people I know have turned it off. We talk at the range.

[WMarshal]

This will blow your mind if the homo mafia frightens you:

The Forever War (1974) is a military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman

[Arthur McGowan]

When dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange came out in 1962, few thought it was a plausible imagining of the future. But, according to Malcolm McDowell, who STARED in the novel's 1971 adaptation, it was in fact a chillingly accurate forecast. Speaking to the New York Daily News, McDowell explains how the Stanley Kubrick film shows a 'world in which all older people stay indoors with televisions on'. [...] The novel's central theme follows a group of violent 'droogs' - or gang members - who seek to ILLICIT 'ultra-violence', mayhem and sexual depravity. The four young men pursue their pleasures after...<

In the future, even newspaper reporters will be illiterate.

[PhilDragoo]

Anthony Burgess spoke in my college auditorium after I'd graduated and made a lap of cities and jobs.

There were hundreds of smarmy men in intellectual glasses laughing intellectual interjections, perhaps MENsa.

Burgess quipped he'd been given six months to live and with judicious and injudicious dosages of gin and benzedrine wrote six novels and a screen play.

Clockwork Orange was a racy thing, much like a Tom Wolf slick schtick.

Overtaken by reality.

Londonistan and the recent Muslim unpleasantness.

[PghBaldy]

Book written in 1962. Already we were having problems with criminal youth. Most things went completely haywire in this country after the civil rights era. Just one factor along with entitlements from govt and “entitlements” inside minorities, divorces, drugs, contraception... ALL due to leftism run amuck.

[SunkenCiv]

No time for in out love, I’ve just come to read the meter.