Bandits
I do not blame people for turning into 'bandits' in some situations, especially when the capitalist society works against the working classes, making it impossible for them to get legitimate ways of earning a living. I do not consider Robin Hood as particularly 'bad' since he stole from the rich to give to the poor, and in my opinion the story has a good moral justifications...maybe it helps people in positions of power to recognise the needy.
I think real gangsters obviously do behave badly but who are we to judge their circumstances and the chooses they made in them circumstances? Maybe we would have done the same! Everyone has a different perspective of the world, whether its a good one or a bad one. They have in their own way educated. I think we have to realise the education is not always about how good you are at academia. Education does not always lead people in the 'right' path.
It is more 'bad' when renowned artists like Beyonce and Jay-Z glamorise Bonnie and Clyde by setting it in recent times. I do not think they really care about the young audiences they attract and the masses who can not distinguish between reality and fantasy..I know I could not!
Although the lecture was quite interesting, it focused mainly on olden day bandits instead of nowadays 'gangsters' that the class probably would have been able to relate to.
I think real gangsters obviously do behave badly but who are we to judge their circumstances and the chooses they made in them circumstances? Maybe we would have done the same! Everyone has a different perspective of the world, whether its a good one or a bad one. They have in their own way educated. I think we have to realise the education is not always about how good you are at academia. Education does not always lead people in the 'right' path.
It is more 'bad' when renowned artists like Beyonce and Jay-Z glamorise Bonnie and Clyde by setting it in recent times. I do not think they really care about the young audiences they attract and the masses who can not distinguish between reality and fantasy..I know I could not!
Although the lecture was quite interesting, it focused mainly on olden day bandits instead of nowadays 'gangsters' that the class probably would have been able to relate to.
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I think todays 'Gangsters' are held in high esteem by some younger members of the public.The 'Bad Boy' image is something they can latch onto to make themselves look hard,but these gangsters usually have dodgy backgrounds-look at Tupac Shukur,he was jailed for a serious sexual assault but that doesn't tend to get mentioned when the record company is releasing his twentieth posthumous album!!
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