Gangsters Life Style in the Movie: Goodfellas

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I am always for freedom; that is the truth. But I realize that today, we have too much freedom, so much so that the truth of our lives have been muddled into this really vague truth: whatever works is OK; as long as you harm no one, what you do is OK; if you obey the law, whatever you do within it is OK; that as long as you are conventional, as long as you obey what people say today, your amorality, your insincerity, your plain stoic unfeelingness is OK.
But the simple truth is that this thinking is not OK.

In a sense, we have created a new Sodom in this world. You think that in Sodom, rape was illegal? You think in Sodom, that dignity and integrity was encouraged? You think that in Sodom, murder was a crime punishable by death? They have a similar philosophy with today’s: whatever works is OK; as long as you obey, what you do is OK; what is right doesn’t matter as you follow along with what we say

Like going from the frying pan to the fire, we’ve created a freedom that entraps us to live the most amoral way possible. And it shows: corruption scandals aimed at the highest of the land; cheating and point-shaving in sports; pregnancies outside marriages by celebrities OUR children emulate; drop-out rates in colleges and high schools unprecedented except in a time of war; the “get-rich” mentality people have that cultivated people like Jordan Belfort and the Lehman Brothers.

Some of their actions may not have been wrong, but they weren’t right either, and a person’s guilt isn’t assuaged just because everyone else is a worse asshole than they are. Our modern society is in a spilling point, where most everyone is doing wrong, and the only barometer to measure today is not who’s truly right, but who’s less wrong. This kind of social ...

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...egalism and persecution. But the hard truth is that what truly works for our society is knowing what is right: that’s how the Declaration of Independence in America was created; that’s how the 13th Amendment was created; that’s how we got to the Moon; that’s how the British and American and Soviet forces won World War II; that’s how the EDSA People Power Revolution sparked; that’s how many of our literature and poems and music were created; and that’s why Jesus Christ died on the cross.

I am always for freedom, and that’s the truth. But I want the real kind of freedom, and not the facsimile people try to feed us today. Many people settle for what’s OK, what’s acceptable, and what can be done, but I’m dreaming for the real kind, the best kind, the purest kind of freedom. I think getting it is a moonshot as it is, but I’ve got to try, or else, what is this life for?

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