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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.

35 posted on 02/03/2016 12:12:59 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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In the future, even newspaper reporters will be illiterate.

I know! How does this stuff get published? Are there no editors? Or are the editors as stupid as the writers?
42 posted on 02/03/2016 6:46:27 AM PST by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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