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Re:'I should not have written 'A Clockwork Orange'' by hindsightbias on Thursday February 01, 2024 @11:51AM (#39218040)
> Veerhoven's

I stopped talking to people about the film because I discovered that most of them didn't see it as satire or think the book (which they read as teens) was proto-fascist.

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Re:'I should not have written 'A Clockwork Orange'' by euroderf on Thursday February 01, 2024 @12:40PM (#39218741)
Absolutely. The satire was lost on those who needed it most.
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Re:'I should not have written 'A Clockwork Orange'' by 0xBDB on Friday February 02, 2024 @03:00PM (#39233443)
The movie is an obvious satire. I've never understood how people get proto-fascism from the book. Even assuming it isn't a satire itself (and I could be convinced either way) it dwells on the military in a conservative society but the society it describes is also a democracy that doesn't even let active-duty military members vote.
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