Seeing Is Believing.

My theory about life imitating art is a very valid one to me. Those who hold the keys to cultural images are the most powerful people in society.

All it takes is one look at Oliver Stone's exaggerated creations over the last nearly thirty years to confirm my claims. With the characters of Tony Montana and Gordon Gekko, alone, Stone has given both petty and upperscale criminals standard-bearing idols to aspire towards, albeit contrary to his original intentions. And they have.

While I don't support the Tipper Gore mindset of solely blaming our culture's art and media for the problems of our society, I'm a full-on believer in the Lisbeth Salander philosophy which is that "Nobody is innocent. There are, however, varying degrees of responsibility."