Watched A Clockwork Orange for the first time

[PoliticAverse]

1. What I was trying to say...

What I was trying to say was that it is better to be bad of one’s own free will than to be good through scientific brainwashing. When Alex has the power of choice, he chooses only violence. But, as his love of music shows, there are other areas of choice. In the British edition of the book—though not in the American, nor in the film—there is an epilogue that shows Alex growing up, learning distaste for his old way of life, thinking of love as more than a mode of violence, even foreseeing himself as a husband and father. The way has always been open; at last he chooses to take it. He has been a sour orange; now he is filling with something like decent human sweetness.

From:
The Clockwork Condition
The author comments on his most famous book, in 1973.
By Anthony Burgess
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/04/the-clockwork-condition