A Thought
I watched A Clockwork Orange the other night.
It's one of my favorite films and I hadn't watched it in a while.
If you've never seen it, it's a Stanley Kubrick movie from 1971, about a future society and a young man named Alex, who leads a violent gang.
He is arrested for murder and after spending about two years in prison, he volunteers for a new rehabilitation technique called the Ludovico technique. This involves having experimental drugs administered to him, which serve to change his natural inclination towards violence.
In explaining this new method, Dr. Brodsky (who is overseeing Alex's treatment) describes it this way:
Very soon now, the drug will cause the subject to experience a death-like paralysis, together with deep feelings of terror and helplessness. One of our early test subjects described it as being like death, a sense of stifling or drowning, and it is during this period we have found that the subject will make his most rewarding associations between his catastrophic experience-environment and the violence he sees.
Sounds a lot like waterboarding, doesn't it?!?
It's one of my favorite films and I hadn't watched it in a while.
If you've never seen it, it's a Stanley Kubrick movie from 1971, about a future society and a young man named Alex, who leads a violent gang.
He is arrested for murder and after spending about two years in prison, he volunteers for a new rehabilitation technique called the Ludovico technique. This involves having experimental drugs administered to him, which serve to change his natural inclination towards violence.
In explaining this new method, Dr. Brodsky (who is overseeing Alex's treatment) describes it this way:
Very soon now, the drug will cause the subject to experience a death-like paralysis, together with deep feelings of terror and helplessness. One of our early test subjects described it as being like death, a sense of stifling or drowning, and it is during this period we have found that the subject will make his most rewarding associations between his catastrophic experience-environment and the violence he sees.
Sounds a lot like waterboarding, doesn't it?!?