Originally Posted by DillyDolly
Yeah, well, if everyone just decided that they're going to be independent wiseguys, with no initiation rituals or sense of brotherhood, where's the allure, where's the appeal? It's what makes the mob the mob, without it you just have a bunch of freelancers doing whatever they want. No structure, no strings holding everything together. Don't seem interesting to me, the "mob" loses all of its mystique at that point.


There easly be a brotherhood without structure or rituals,Buscetta said that Cosa Nostra was a way of life,values to follow etc he was inducted but for all his life he was a freelance preferring the Brazil to Sicily.