"You work a lot. You have some money, algo dinero. Maybe some beautiful women. But then they leave you, for somebody more handsome, with more dinero than you. When you end up in jail, the ones on the outside, who think they're clean, will insult you, but you will have ruled. They'll hate you, but you'll have bought yourself everything good in life, everything you wanted. You'll have the organisation behind you. It might happen that you suffer some, and maybe they'll even kill you.
The organisation backs whoever's strongest, obviously. You can climb mountains with rules of the flesh, blood and money. But if you become weak, if you make a mistake, you're fucked. If you do good, you'll be rewarded, If you make a bad alliance; you're fucked; if you make a mistake in war, you're fucked; if you don't know how to hold on to power, you're fucked.
But these wars are permitted. They are allowed. They are our wars. You might win and you might lose. But on only one condition will you always lose, and in the most painful way possible; if you betray the organisation. Whoever tries to go against the Honored Society, has no hope of surviving. You can run from the law but not from the organisation. You can even run from God, 'cause God can wait forever for the fugitive. But you can't escape the organisation.
If you betray it and run, if they screw you and you run, if you don't respect rules and you run, somebody's gonna pay. They'll come looking for you. They'll go to your family, to your allies. Your name will be on the list forever. And nothing can erase it. Not time, not money. You're fucked for all eternity, you and your descendants."
Roberto Saviano, Zero Zero Zero (2015).
p. 35-36.
A wiretapped conversation of a Calabrian Mafia Boss speaking to new recruits.
The organisation backs whoever's strongest, obviously. You can climb mountains with rules of the flesh, blood and money. But if you become weak, if you make a mistake, you're fucked. If you do good, you'll be rewarded, If you make a bad alliance; you're fucked; if you make a mistake in war, you're fucked; if you don't know how to hold on to power, you're fucked.
But these wars are permitted. They are allowed. They are our wars. You might win and you might lose. But on only one condition will you always lose, and in the most painful way possible; if you betray the organisation. Whoever tries to go against the Honored Society, has no hope of surviving. You can run from the law but not from the organisation. You can even run from God, 'cause God can wait forever for the fugitive. But you can't escape the organisation.
If you betray it and run, if they screw you and you run, if you don't respect rules and you run, somebody's gonna pay. They'll come looking for you. They'll go to your family, to your allies. Your name will be on the list forever. And nothing can erase it. Not time, not money. You're fucked for all eternity, you and your descendants."
Roberto Saviano, Zero Zero Zero (2015).
p. 35-36.
A wiretapped conversation of a Calabrian Mafia Boss speaking to new recruits.
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