Mood: Thoughtful
Topic: A Clockwork Orange
S.O.C.: "Morning Glow" from the FFX-2 Yuna Voice Collection
"By definition, a human being is endowed with a free will. He can use this to chose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange- meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with color and juice but is infact only a clock-work toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or(since this is increasingly replacing both) The Alimighty State. It is inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. The important thing is moral chioce. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral choice."
I love this book. Burgess was a genius. The man took the entire theme of the book and placed it right there for any one that might have missed it. I can't remember if he placed it in as one of Alex's opinion or in the Foreward. Amazing... another wonderful point is that somewhere in the book...well hold on let me tell you about what this book is.
The book is set somewhat in the future...lawlessness is accepted and the youth...somewhat run the place. The book is written mostly in English but there are many many words in Russian and it takes you a while to catch on. Alex and his friends (droogs) are basically like a gang and they do as they please early on in the book they steal a car, get into a fight, bet up many a person and kill a few more. Eventually though Alex's droogs dip on him and Alex's winds up in jail. At which point...he doesn't reform at all they simply...........mess with his mind and mold him into what they want him to be. Soon after his release he tries to kill himself because he can't function in his own life because of the job they have done on him mentally. In the end though he is fixed...but the most awesome point is this.
Alex is a "horrible" human being to anyone of any standard but...is he better acting of his own will or just doing what he is programmed to do? That's the question of the book right there. In the end Alex does change of his own free will but for better or for worse. The point is he does change of his own free will. Alex says at one point in the book talking about people who live under pretext where they really are no better than he is they just pretend he says "I do what I do because I like to do it." Simple as that. Evil then evil but at least he doesn't live thinking he's doing the right thing ya know? I think it's a wonderful book although very short I wish I had it I read it on loan. In anycase this book isn't for everyone not by any means at all so I don't suggest it to most of you. It's....not scary not gory nothing really but it WILL make you wonder about your perception on thing if you believe in perception or can understand the idea of it. This is one of those books that helped me establish my perception theory. So most of you will probably hate it.
Anywho I just felt like sharing. Bye
Kim
Topic: A Clockwork Orange
S.O.C.: "Morning Glow" from the FFX-2 Yuna Voice Collection
"By definition, a human being is endowed with a free will. He can use this to chose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange- meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with color and juice but is infact only a clock-work toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or(since this is increasingly replacing both) The Alimighty State. It is inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. The important thing is moral chioce. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral choice."
I love this book. Burgess was a genius. The man took the entire theme of the book and placed it right there for any one that might have missed it. I can't remember if he placed it in as one of Alex's opinion or in the Foreward. Amazing... another wonderful point is that somewhere in the book...well hold on let me tell you about what this book is.
The book is set somewhat in the future...lawlessness is accepted and the youth...somewhat run the place. The book is written mostly in English but there are many many words in Russian and it takes you a while to catch on. Alex and his friends (droogs) are basically like a gang and they do as they please early on in the book they steal a car, get into a fight, bet up many a person and kill a few more. Eventually though Alex's droogs dip on him and Alex's winds up in jail. At which point...he doesn't reform at all they simply...........mess with his mind and mold him into what they want him to be. Soon after his release he tries to kill himself because he can't function in his own life because of the job they have done on him mentally. In the end though he is fixed...but the most awesome point is this.
Alex is a "horrible" human being to anyone of any standard but...is he better acting of his own will or just doing what he is programmed to do? That's the question of the book right there. In the end Alex does change of his own free will but for better or for worse. The point is he does change of his own free will. Alex says at one point in the book talking about people who live under pretext where they really are no better than he is they just pretend he says "I do what I do because I like to do it." Simple as that. Evil then evil but at least he doesn't live thinking he's doing the right thing ya know? I think it's a wonderful book although very short I wish I had it I read it on loan. In anycase this book isn't for everyone not by any means at all so I don't suggest it to most of you. It's....not scary not gory nothing really but it WILL make you wonder about your perception on thing if you believe in perception or can understand the idea of it. This is one of those books that helped me establish my perception theory. So most of you will probably hate it.
Anywho I just felt like sharing. Bye
Kim
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