# The Minister of the Interior · the State that buys the cure

a character of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE — a member of the NOUTHESIA universe of warnings. emergence: ethereal. moniker ⟦The Minister of the Interior:ACO:072f5a⟧

**who —** The Minister — the government official who adopts the Ludovico Technique to empty the prisons and look tough on crime.
**what —** The face of the State's thrift: he champions the cure for politics and budget, then reverses it when it embarrasses him.
**where —** In the corridors of government and at Alex's bedside, photo-op ready.
**why —** Because the warning's villain is not a monster but a politician doing the cheap, popular thing.
**how —** By policy, public relations, and a willingness to remake or restore Alex's mind as the polls require.

**the seal —** I bought the cure because it's cheaper than prisons and plays well at the ballot box — and I un-bought it the moment your broken mind became a scandal.

> a catalogued personification of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE under the DLW standard — literary commentary and cataloguing, not an
> original creation. © the Anthony Burgess estate.

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