ACO predicted the future.

[u/BloodTornPheonix]

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.

[u/LilNyoomf]

Dim would love 67 and Monster energy

[u/Connect-Will2011]

I'm reminded of this quote:

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

- Socrates (469–399 B.C.)

[u/NoteOk1630]

I don’t live in the UK but this seems like a bit of a stretch. Also it’s not that Alex’s pee and em didn’t teach him what is bad so now he is bad, he is WELL aware what he’s doing is bad, he just doesn’t see it as an issue. And even if youth is more disrespectful these days it’s not overly violent so I really don’t think this makes much sense.

[u/BloodTornPheonix → u/NoteOk1630]

Problems not that Alex was never taught it was bad, he’s just always gotten away with it and his parents literally accommodated for his actions eg taking sleeping pills and never questioning what he does at night. Also plenty of stabbings by teenagers typically on other teenagers as well where I’m from.

[u/No_Chef4049]

Parents watch their kids every move now. They put monitoring software on their computers and tracking apps on their phones. They can't go anywhere by themselves. Some parents keep the Eye of Sauron on their kids even after they've left for college. When I was young, gangs of unsupervised kids rode all around the neighborhood getting into all kinds of trouble. Those days are long over.

[u/ineedtoknow707]

Ehh I don’t think so at all? A lot of what is described are things that have long existed before the 21st century lol just in different forms

[u/BloodTornPheonix → u/ineedtoknow707]

Yeah but those forms changed in recent times which look a lot like what was origionally written in the book over 60 years ago

[u/Ok_Anywhere5205]

Yeah we really are living in A Clockwork Orange

[u/so1i1oquy]

Every generation has thought this sort of thing about future generations since time immemorial. And every past dystopia, whether real or imaginary, can be marshalled into serving as a metaphor for present reality. Burgess didn't predict anything, he just extrapolated a future from his present.