The difference between revolutionaries and thug bandits

When we ever learn.

There is culturally an appeal in my western lifetime to glamorize bandits. Why I do not know. In movies they look glamorous after the scripts are written and directed and acted. It is well beyond the Robin Hood type of stuff … this is glamorizing bandits of the worst kind, as in low lifes with big egos who murder and maim and rape. Yet the movies happen, presumably because the investors expect to make money, and apparently they do based on the repetition of these kinds of movies. So maybe the problem is us, those who pay to see such movies. Is it the action and violence and sex, or is it a cultural association with revolution against the reigning government? I still don’t know.

What I do know is the difference. Thieves and bandits through history and cultures are often smart enough to wrap their practices in social causes, there by disguising their basic behavior.

We, the victims, should be smarter than this. It appears we are becoming smarter throughout the world. Banditry that subjugates our families will lose. Nobody is smarter and more political than a mother or father.