by CabriniGreen » Sat Jul 22, 2023 5:53 am
johnny_scootch wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 6:56 pm
bluehouse wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 3:27 am
The whole point to being a criminal especially in organized crime is so you wont have to punch a clock.
It's not the whole point, evidenced by the fact that within Cosa Nostra specifically there have members who were business owners, priests, lawyers, politicians, plumbers, bakers, electricians, union officials, barbers, dentists, doctors and so on. That's not to say they don't have their fair share of stickup men, bookmakers, loan sharks, drug dealers, leg breakers and murderers.
Crime isn't the main point of the society but it takes all kinds of meat to make a good stew.
The point is a MAFIOSI, (not necessarily a gang member) is supposed to be self sufficient. He needs to stand on his feet. It can be from either side of the street, even a mix, but a man has to be able to take care of himself.
A very good dramatization was in the Godfather movie. When Vito was forced to give up his job to a mafiosi. He might have been content with that modest life, if not for the AFFRONTERY, the humiliation of not being able to provide. That shit is intolerable. I bet MANY men in Sicily, and a lot of the early immigrants, joined the mafia because they COULDNT get legit work, of the type that would enable them to feed their families and maintain dignity.
When the State, or whatever ruling apparatus tells you, that you arnt qualified to earn a living, arnt entitled to respect as a man, YOU RESIST THAT. You reject it outright as an illegitimate institution. YOU decide you are worthy of society, NOT SOCIETY. You define YOURSELF.
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The whole point to being a criminal especially in organized crime is so you wont have to punch a clock.
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It's not the whole point, evidenced by the fact that within Cosa Nostra specifically there have members who were business owners, priests, lawyers, politicians, plumbers, bakers, electricians, union officials, barbers, dentists, doctors and so on. That's not to say they don't have their fair share of stickup men, bookmakers, loan sharks, drug dealers, leg breakers and murderers.
Crime isn't the main point of the society but it takes all kinds of meat to make a good stew.
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The point is a MAFIOSI, (not necessarily a gang member) is supposed to be self sufficient. He needs to stand on his feet. It can be from either side of the street, even a mix, but a man has to be able to take care of himself.
A very good dramatization was in the Godfather movie. When Vito was forced to give up his job to a mafiosi. He might have been content with that modest life, if not for the AFFRONTERY, the humiliation of not being able to provide. That shit is intolerable. I bet MANY men in Sicily, and a lot of the early immigrants, joined the mafia because they COULDNT get legit work, of the type that would enable them to feed their families and maintain dignity.
When the State, or whatever ruling apparatus tells you, that you arnt qualified to earn a living, arnt entitled to respect as a man, YOU RESIST THAT. You reject it outright as an illegitimate institution. YOU decide you are worthy of society, NOT SOCIETY. You define YOURSELF.