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Originally Posted by Knuckles&Knees
That's a good ability to develop in the central cities, public housings, and favelas (shanty towns) of the world.
 I was only giving you my opinion or impression of the people and contemporary culture of American central cities, bro. The "ethics" of the "old school" people are not present in todays central cities - and the elderly in Rio de Janeiro favelas say the same thing regarding the younger favelados (spelling?).
Even the La Cosa Nostra, perhaps the United States most venerated criminal organization, no longer keeps to the "ethics" of her old school made men. And that's not to say the Chicago Outfit didn't long ago take a less media visible role than Al Capone's Chicago with the Tommy Gun, drive-by-shootings, and hand of absolute control over Chicago and Cicero mayoralships.
I'm convinced that the times we live in - throughout all the *Americas* - will be going down in history as a unique period of violence and profits on par with the early industries of sugar and tobacco. This period however will be defined by the cocaine and heroine industries (as they reshaped the structures of societies).
Yeah, there are gang leaders like that. Larry Hoover and Jeff Fort were (are) men known to have exhibited those kinds of traits.
I just think people tend to *glamorize* contemporary urban culture, and its related violence and criminals or just simply hostile people, way to much. I spent a short time in a *very* small town before, a place were people left their doors unlocked at night and even keys in empty, running cars as they entered stores. Meeting some of the people in this town really left an impression on me. People from big urban areas look down on people from communities such as that small town, but as far as I'm concerned, generally speaking, they are 100x better than big city urban folks. And ain't no one going to convince me otherwise. |
I have an aunt that lives in a small town like that. Biggest news is often something like the local fire hydrant was just repainted. Such peaceful places. They're amazing. It really hits home when you get back and have start remembering to lock your car door, etc. So, yeah, I'd have to agree.
And yet, a lot of towns in the Southern States of Ameerica that were supposedly like that were at the very same time guilty of some very ugly crimes against balck people for hundreds of years, for no other reason then they're screwed up perceptions of them, either through participation or indifference.
Nothing is black or white. That was my point in my real life example of a Pastor who was an asshole and a gangleader who actually had a code of honor. But your right, even that is more often a thing of the past, these days.
Look at the mess the Catholic Church has turned out to be in for centuries. There are underground graves all over Europe where nuns used to bury their newborns from priests forcing themselves on them. Thousands of them...And now, it turns out that not only have a select number of them been allowed to continue to give new meaning to the word "rectory," but they are still defended by Mother Church.
Appearances too often, not always, but too often turning out to be "like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness."
Anyway, I'm getting depressed. Let's get back to arguing, debating somethig less important like do Ghost and the two Mikes really like each other, are there really two JKDs, was Bruce Lee really that good, or some other such less taxing matter.