COLTON HELLER: THESISSSS

There is a basic confusion in the minds of American people as to the difference between fear and respect accounting for their attraction to mobsters. There is a sense in which mobsters think they are respected and trusted by everyone, but in the sense of reality that they are really feared. They have a sense of money, but it doesn’t get saved and invested, it gets spent on cars, bars, and women. Also, mobsters think they are invincible, but in reality, they mostly get caught and spend little or much time in jail. Mobsters such as Capone, Gotti, and Luciano were created into ideal figures of society and viewed as powerful, but never the less were they, because the reality contradicts the illusion of the mobster lifestyle.