American Mafia

[Mike Dickson]

I've been interested in the American Mafia since I was a young boy. I guess I find their lifestyle intriguing or something. Anyway, I've read all the stories fiction and non-fiction, watched all the movies, documentaries, and mini series. I've even met quite a few around the states. My father lives next door to an older gentlemen I know as a ex-Lucchese family associate, (though I've never said it to his face) who was around when the Luftansa heist took place. My point is, I've thought about developing a new family (even have a name picked out) and maybe writing about them, but I don't want to waste my time on something that may not have a commercial interest.
What do you all think? I'm not talking JK Rowling interest, just something that may have the chance to get published down the road.

[polymath]

I think the public has seen the glorifications of organized crime and the evils thereof. I believe there's always room for a fresh tangent. I feel a reimagination of the social forces organized crime excites might be a matter of exploring a personal meaning.

La Cosa Nostra grew out of Sicilian pater familias responses to an oppressive society, spread to Italy, spread to the U.S., where immigrants faced cultural and social oppression. The way they found for responding to oppression was criminal by native standards, but the way of life back home.

Though La Cosa Nostra hasn't been extinguished, they are receding into outwardly respectable lives. An interesting factoid from sociology suggests it takes four or five or six generations for an immigrant family lineage to fully assimilate and acclimate to a host country, all the while imposing adjustments on the host society.

However, there is in the present native organized crime syndicates more markedly shaping society. One-percenter outlaw groups, inner city fraternal gangs spreading toward the hinterlands, radical homegrown insurgencies, more recent immigrant ethnicities, white-collar opportunists, and loose black market conspiracies at present are in the vanguard of native organized crime.

[mnaylor3]

I think it's a great idea if the mafia members were all gay. You could call it Gayfia.