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Should Australian society be based on "A Clockwork Orange"? - Comrade Is A Cat - 03-08-2014 05:24 AM
- Mr H - 03-08-2014 05:39 AM
Many people have questioned the meaning of the title. Is it a mechanical color? A Robotic Fruit? Some have even argued that this means mechanical man, suggesting that it's not "Orange" at all, but "ourang" that being the Malay word for "Man" as heard in "orangutan" (Literally "Jungle Man").
However, as Anthony Burgess, the author, later wrote in his novel, 'A Clockwork Orange Resucked', he states that "a clockwork orange' is the result of society's socialization of man from a sweet and oozing thing of God into a Mechanical Creation."
Burgess explains that this name is taken from old-London slang for a bizarre thing that is "queer to the limit of queerness."
As he puts it, "I mean it to stand for the application of a mechanistic morality to a living organism oozing with juice and sweetness."
The more I understand the meaning of the term, the more I liken it to the ALP's ideals......the leftists unions & their underlings, the ALP front bench, promote "mechanical" obedience from their members & supporters. The political questions & answers in this section, by these stooges, support my views.
- Toni Parr - 03-08-2014 05:43 AM
No, Now days our main political parties the media and much of the social discourse are more based on "Dumb and Dumber"
- Ãr Daonlathas - 03-08-2014 05:49 AM
Based on the comments in this thread I think the Liberal party appeal to illiterate, angry people who have been whipped into a frenzy by the billionaire controlled right wing propaganda machine which consist of Murdoch's papers, Rinehart's paper, 2GB's shock jocks - Alan Jones, Ray Hadley, Ben Forham, Steve Price & Andrew Bolt ... in Sydney, Neil Mitchell in Melbourne and the three commercial television networks. I think Orwell was/will be right!
- OzNana - 03-08-2014 05:53 AM
I don't think so. It was a pretty savage portrayal of human nature. Although looking at the violence that's currently occurring in and around King's Cross in Sydney, it does look a bit like that.
- broken hill phil - 03-08-2014 06:09 AM
Good Question ... it may be better than what is currently happening to Our worldly Leader > https://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=504&q=humpty+dumpty&oq=humpty&gs_l=img.1.0.0l10.4059.9136.0.10618.6.5.0.1.1.0.247.1176.2-5.5.0....0...1ac.1.32.img..0.6.1182.Lhn7IomE5J0
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- snowball - 03-08-2014 06:24 AM
No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter.
- iansand - 03-08-2014 06:38 AM
Yes. You can't have too much Beethoven.