Censorship
Sir: Mr Lindsay's letter (July 28) will support the inference that Clockwork Orange might be of value as a tract for showing to audiences of politicians, school-masters and parents.
It is a different matter, surely, to make such a film freely available to audiences likely to contain — if his diagnosis of the state of our presentday society is correct — "an everincreasing proportion of adolescent morons of minimal intellectual capacity."
Every adult, in a civilised society, exercises a certain censorship over himself, -suiting his matter to his audience. If he did not, he would soon get the name of being an irresponsible person. Censorship, with a big C, is the
hernesis that a wholly irresponsible entertainments industry is likely to bring upon itself in any society that is not quite without a sense of selfpreservation.
T. C. Owtram Villa Belvedere, 55010 Gragnano, Lucca
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