A Clockwork Orange

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"'It was the sense of this division between well us and sick them that led me to write, in 1960, a short novel called A Clockwork Orange. It is not, in my view, a very good novel . . . But it sincerely presented my abhorrence of the view the view that some people were criminal and others were not. A denial of the universal inheritance of sin is characteristic of Pelagian societies like that of Britain, and it was Britain, about 1960, that respectable people began to murmur about the growth of juvenile delinquency and suggest (that the young criminals) were a somewhat inhuman breed and required inhuman treatment . . . There were irresponsible people who spoke of aversion therapy . . . Society, as ever, was put first. The delinquents were, of course, not quite human beings: they were minors, and had no vote they were very much them as opposed to us, who represented society.'
~ ~ Anthony Burgess"