The collective fascination of the entire planet with action movies where the protagonists are the players in organized crime cannot be explained just by the repressed urge for violence in out psychological make up. It may well indicate the cultural breakdown of traditional moral order, and the implicit recognition of a new society, made up of communal identity and unruly competition, of which global crime is a condensed expression.

p. 211 as cited in: Jari Peltola (2006) "The Place of Politics in Manuel Castells's Network Society" - The Rise of the Network Society, 1996