Wednesday, August 13, 2025

A Clockwork Orange - a range of topics for discussion, research and commentary

 Dystopian Literature and Film
 A Clockwork Orange: Dystopia or Satire?
 A Clockwork Orange: 1971 and 2011
 The Power of the State
 Human Nature: Hobbes vs. Locke 
 G.W.F. Hegel
 Michel Foucault
 Herbert Marcuse
 Institute for Social Research
 The "Human Condition"
 The Genealogy of the Totalitarian State/Police State: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany
 Hooliganism: Chavs, Neds and Political Religious Fundamentalism
 Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Crime 
 Gangs, Juvenile and Adult 
 Elite, Underclass, Working Class, Middle Class
 Recruiting police from the "hooligan" class
 Police Powers, the 4th Amendment, English Common Law
 Romanticism and Revolution: Rousseau, Napoleon
 Beethoven and Rossini
 The 60s and 70s--what happened to the Summer of Love, the Flower Children and "Let it all hang out, baby?"
 The dark emergence: Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and Charles Manson
 From Glam to Prole: David Bowie, Punk Rock, Grunge, Rap
 Good vs. Evil
 Choice
 Torture
 Conditioning: Ivan Pavlov, B. F. Skinner
 The "Ludovico Technique" and Aversion Therapy
 Conditioning: Individuals and Societies
 Social Control
 MK-ULTRA
 Donald Ewen Cameron
 Yuri Besmenov
 Diana West
 DSM-IV: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the power of big pharma
 The role of education in cultivating and preserving a free and open society 









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