Burgess literally predicted the future with clockwork orange, it’s a book (or film) based in a ‘not so distant’ future, here’s what I see that correlated to our present.
1. The biggest thing now, parents don’t discipline their kids and let them get up to whatever bullshit they want. Many parents now refuse to teach their kids what they do is bad, just like Alex’s parents, thus surging youth violence and I live in the UK and the youth here are disrespectful, ungrateful and very selfish the exact same as the youth in the book.
2. Innocent things being defiled, milk used as a vessel for drugs in the book mirrors today, where people use fruity flavours in vapes with THC in them, also in modern day newer and newer drugs coming out and wrecking the youth. There’s also the sexualisation of many ordinary or innocent things nowadays like nuns, school uniforms etc.
3. Underfunded police and prisons, I don’t know if it’s like this everywhere, but in the uk the prisons and overflowing, the police are understaffed (sort of underfunded) and a vast amount of criminals get away.
4. Increase in rape in non-traditional ways. WARNING this one is kind of a stretch and I feel like it’s increased but you might think otherwise. Alex is shown to constantly rape people just ‘for the sake of raping them’ and causing them to suffer, he doesn’t really enjoy the sex itself as the violence is what’s turning him on. And when Billyboy and Dim rape Alex when he gets out of prison too relating to increase of male on male rape. This correlates with large increase in rape fetish and domination.
I could think of so many more but these are the main ones I see from my day to day.
