When Alex kills a woman during a rape, Alex is sent to prison. When clinton rapes women, girls, his country and God knows what else. . . and kills? --- check out those fourscore-plus deaths, please! And don't forget the wag-the-dog, desperately-seeking-a-legacy bombings, or the cold-blooded Ricky Ray Rector execution--- not clinton but society is imprisoned, imprisoned in clinton's besmirched, semen-stained, feckless presidency. A risible and repulsive result; yet not even the punch line. While Alex is conditioned in prison with aversion therapy, transmuted into a moral robot who becomes nauseated by the mere thought of sex and violence, bill clinton and his Thought Police, in a perverse reverse aversion, have conditioned society's collective brain into not mere acquiescence but twisted admiration. In the end, if clinton's arrogant, ruthless, reckless nature is restored to him, it seems the joke will be on all of us, for it will be a victory for infinite victimhood and irresponsibility, for seduction, for violence, for nihilism, for anarchy. We will have set apart clinton as the hero by making his victims less human than he; we will have allowed clinton to carefully estrange us from his victims so that we can enjoy the rapes and the beatings as much as clinton himself does. Mia T, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE |