By the way, fair enough, the internet may not have affected too much those other people who committed terrible crimes and whatnot.
But to some degree, no, not to rightly think its wrong, nor to discourage me from doing anything bad myself (I've always been a nice guy and a normal law-abiding citizen), a lot of those angry comments, however right they are, have slightly gotten under my skin and into my mind and conscience and I wondered sometimes - hey, why aren't future criminals as such deterred and affected, even if unfortunately, answers to that are often rather obvious, and of course I know the basic rules and facts of life etc. But it did create certain feelings in me like that of the existence of tangents and tendencies of justice.
And I kinda had to wonder, if internet started to exist in the 70s, would that have an effect on would be and existing criminals like Alex?
Remember how in this film he jumped out of the window when hearing that Beethoven sympathy? If he read about how much people hate him and think he deserves to suffer and die, would that create a similar effect?
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wearsalan (5554)
3 years ago
If he read about how much people hate him and think he deserves to suffer and die, would that create a similar effect?
No. The reaction to Beethoven was because of the mental conditioning he was forced to endure.
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TheMan18 (13052)
3 years ago
So then why does someone like ME, who has NOT been conditioned to any Ludovico treatment and de-facto drugs in real life as such, often tends to react and take close to heart and at times for granted the stuff that people say on the internet, especially about guilty evil people, is it just my mental state etc?
And with regards to mental conditioning, do we all experience it and does it work well even when no drugs etc are used, like in this movie?
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wearsalan (5554)
3 years ago
So then why does someone like ME, who has NOT been conditioned to any Ludovico treatment and de-facto drugs in real life as such, often tends to react and take close to heart and at times for granted the stuff that people say on the internet, especially about guilty evil people, is it just my mental state etc?
Because there is something wrong with YOU.
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TheMan18 (13052)
3 years ago
Really? There was something wrong with Alex in this movie too.
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TheMan18 (13052)
3 years ago
Maybe I am just a little too impressionable and have spent WAY too much time at home and online rather than living life to the full and some of that stuff just got to me etc.
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wearsalan (5554)
3 years ago
Maybe
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TheMan18 (13052)
3 years ago
Plus, its a well known fact that sadly not only are psychopaths often incapable of empathy but they also rarely worry about the consequences of their own actions and even LESS so what others say or think about them. So I am guessing if internet existed around that time, it wouldn't change much.
P.S. I heard that to some extent, albeit different to how it is today, internet actually WAS around in the 70s as were computers. Just not up to our standards.
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aavfreak (3334)
3 years ago
Remember how in this film he jumped out of the window when hearing that Beethoven sympathy? If he read about how much people hate him and think he deserves to suffer and die, would that create a similar effect?
Can you explain to me how you equate the two? He couldn't stand to hear the
symphony because that's what they played during his conditioning with the drug that made him sick. The drug was intended to make him direly averse to the violence they forced him to watch, but in the process made him direly averse to the music as well. No such correlation would have existed with the opinion of anonymous random people on the internet.
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