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Monday, July 19, 2010

Sons of Anarchy-Organized

The FX series, Sons of Anarchy, is in re-runs now. This series depicts a motor cycle club that runs a small town that allows it to conduct its criminal as well as legitimate businesses. I do not know of any biker groups that actually own cities, but it occurs to me that this show is an allegory. The burg represents the United States and the bikers are the white collar gangsters that actually operate the economy. The name of the club would indicate that this group is into chaos. Nothing is further from the truth. They are a force of law and order in this municipality. The Sons of Anarchy need order and stability in order to generate profits. This is reminiscent of the Nazis whose name implies socialism when they are really a party of big business. The show's efforts will probably lost on the vast majority of Americans. We see the criminal activity of businessmen, as in the recent economic collapse, and we pretend that these things just do not happen. After all, this is not South America. It is encouraging to see artists present the issue, even if their efforts may be for naught.

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