Does it seem that much of Charles Manson's insane philosophical ramblinlings seem to be playing out exactly how he said it would in current society?

@kingfish2: Fair enough. What's your take on the question?

@MethDozer: His ramblings are pretty scattershot but he's not stupid by any means. Globalization anyone?

@kingfish2: I don't think anyone can honestly say he was stupid. Insane, evil, dangerous, etc. sure, but he wasn't without a level of intelligence.

@MethDozer: In a sense, I think he served to perpetuate ignorance/denial of the very things about which he spoke. Not intentionally, but because people are prone to rejecting the message if they reject the messenger.

@Bozette: Very good point. I can think of numerous examples of that phenomenon.

@MethDozer: You see it daily in online forums, particularly political posts. I cannot count the number of times I have seen people dismiss a link others posted as a "LWNJ/RWNJ" source. Many on the right automatically refused to watch that clip I posted where Michael Moore nailed why Trump would be elected, simply [i]because[/i] it was MM. Yet those that did watch it had to admit he was spot on. I don't like Moore, but he was the only one who really pegged it, and I give credit where due...I don't have to like the source to recognize truth.

@waleskinder: He also said that governments and media were crime factories that creates crime and chaos in order to profit from it. Instead of trying to subdue it, they perpetuate it under the guise of protection from it so they can manufacture a a need for their "services". That children are just treated as products and manipulated to serve the cause of creating discord , violence, and chaos as adults.

@Flenflyys: To be honest it's hard to break down in a short form in a post. If your interested you would have to listen to his numerous interviews and put up with a lot nonsensical insanity.
Basically he talked a lot about how media and governments are there to create violence and unrest amongst the people inorder to appear to be the saviours of it, but in appearing, or at best trying, to rescue society from it that they both are the perpetuating it. All in the name of profiting financially and in terms of power. That the so-called moves for more equality are creating further divides in it and it is ultimately leading to an inevitable global race war. Not so much one being waged by governments or societies against each other like we saw in WW2 or other similar examples, but by the common men and women against themselves and each other. That it will be waged on the streets by ordinary citizens against other ordinary citizens. With no consciousness that it's be waged or fought really by the participants. It will be a war of racially based collective consciousness and resentments of long standing ingrained inequality and being treated/ feeling like caged animals.

That's the best I can do to break it down on the fly.

I don't disagree with with a lot of this. But a lot of people share these opinions. He was a psychopath after all, not an idiot.