Jacques Ellul said that the personal corruption of politicians was the only thing slowing down the complete instantiation of globo-technocracy.
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I wonder if people idolize organized crime as a remnant feature of pre-modern societies in which hierarchy was based on loyalty & respect- if organized crime is a reactionary force compared to technocracy. Inefficiency, prejudice, & kin preference are anti-technocratic.
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It's interesting that The Sopranos ties the Mafia specifically to endangered media-environments. They refuse to adopt cell phones & conduct business exclusively on pay phones. Organized crime now lacks this sort of "traditionalism." There is no "code" but Do as Thou Wilt.
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Scorsese had to stop making mafia movies because the material dried up. It's interesting to note that The Wolf of Wall Street is his most closely contemporary "Mafia Flick"- & it is based on an outdated Gangster Capitalism. Can't make a flick like that about Investment Bankers...
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Organized Crime now is less romantic. A movie about contemporary cartels is closer to Bolaño's murder book in 2666- so much bloodshed that it stops being meaningful. It's a technocracy of death, not a feudal order or warring clans.
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So much great takes!the mafia turning its back on tradition bred two odd directions: 1.being that of the violent psychopathy of the cartels, thus feed the technocrats need to police terrorism, and 2.Organized crime going globalized with corporate shells,thus becoming technocrats.
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