“I have seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and
dark. Rome is the light.”
-Maximus Aurelius, Gladiator
North American drug dealers are
noble, altruistic men with chiseled abs and beautiful hair. They develop
personal relationships with the ill people who need their medical marijuana.
They spend their free time setting up water purification systems in sub-Saharan
Africa. They are sensitive souls, pained by the violence implicit in their
trade.
Mexican drug dealers are brutal
sadists who torture people, rape women, set men on fire, and chop civilians’
heads off.
At least, this is what Oliver
Stone’s film Savages would have us
believe.
