Comments on: Bonnie and Clyde, Again. Still. Why?

By: Brendan McNally

Brendan McNally — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:09:15 +0000

You may enjoy a story about Clyde Barrow’s fictional cousin, Herbert, an atheist jazz musician who faces off God and the Devil in Del Rio, Texas. Please check out Friend of the Devil by Brendan McNally.

By: elizabethc

elizabethc — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:15:40 +0000

Thanks for the comment! I see your point, and understand – but as unfair and prejudicial as many of our societal systems are, they exist for a reason, and there are people fighting against them in peaceful, lawful, intelligent ways every day, to make the world better and to protest injustice. It irritates me that two thugs who skipped hard work, decency and reason in favour of shooting innocent people to death and trying to get away with it are now glorified and remembered as exciting and romantic.

By: Merritt

Merritt — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:32:20 +0000

People have always romanticized outlaws who railed again, broke from, or skirted the system. Robin Hood. Jesse James. Martin Luther. Jesus. Even Henry VIII. Some of them were peaceful, some violent. But I think it’s that most people feel like the “system” is unjust to them, but they are powerless against it. In the great depression the banks represented the failure of the system to protect the people who still had to live within its confines. (Obviously) the media was nowhere near as saturated or as immediate as it is now, and in times desperate for salvation, the story of two lover outlaws getting rich on the run held captive the country’s imagination, spawning a legend. Sure, they were bad people. I don’t think anybody would deny that.