The chapter focuses on a scene from the movie 'A Clockwork Orange' where Alex undergoes a conditioning process involving his eyelids. The speakers discuss the pain involved, how it marks a shift in Alex's position, and the Ludo Vico technique used to make him feel sick when having violent thoughts.
There was me, that is Tamler, and my droog, that is David, and we sat in our living rooms on Skype trying to make up our rassoodocks what Stanley Kubrick's a Clockwork Orange was really about? Free will? We didn't think so. Punishment? Yeah but what about punishment? And what about the old ultraviolence - can it still shock us in the modern age? Then suddenly we viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones and that the oomny just, like, press record and start the podcast. Slooshy well, my brothers, slooshy well.
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