tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post3138401195051532967..comments2024-03-19T15:24:48.864-07:00Comments on Green Eagle: CharlieGreen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-6147964524464806312017-11-22T20:30:52.273-08:002017-11-22T20:30:52.273-08:00Well, Joseph, I've always felt the same about...Well, Joseph, I've always felt the same about Hitler, who was really a boring little jerk when you get down to it. The real interest lies in what made so many people fall for him. And Charlie was nothing but a very inferior sort of would-be Hitler, when you come down to it.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-41520824316417214812017-11-21T12:48:13.819-08:002017-11-21T12:48:13.819-08:00It is not Manson, but his followers that interest ...It is not Manson, but his followers that interest me. What is the psychological makeup of a person that allows him or her to become a follower of a narcissistic sociopath? And the similarity to Trump voters is quite obvious.josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09057606413590949268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-34204987145509662512017-11-21T10:54:23.711-08:002017-11-21T10:54:23.711-08:00Of course, I don't feel anything positive towa...Of course, I don't feel anything positive toward Manson, I am just interested in the impact that this objectively unimportant person managed to have. I feel it necessary to say this because I understand that there are people out there that are glorifying Charlie, for some strange reason. This is not an unknown phenomenon in this country, of course. During the Depression many people made heroes out of John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Ma Barker's gang and other violent criminals.<br /><br />Here's an interesting fact about Charlie. Charlie learned to play guitar while in prison, from Alvin "Creepy" Karpis, the last survivng member of the Barker gang, and a former number one most wanted criminal. If only Karpis had taught him a little better, he might have gotten a record contract, and vanished into Rock and Roll obscurity.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-66117677590696665372017-11-21T00:52:48.894-08:002017-11-21T00:52:48.894-08:00I don't feel anything for Manson except the sa...I don't feel anything for Manson except the same reaction I would feel for a rabid dangerous dog beyond any point of bringing back.<br />It is interesting to contrast, however, the choices of Manson with one of his intended victims: Steve McQueen. Both had catastrophic upbringings but one become the most successful actor of his day and the other a reviled serial killer.<br />And you're right about the times in which we live. Or rather in which you live. The society I live in has its problems, but America has a whole other level of sickness. And a vast proportion of the population commits itself to accepting that sickness as the price of a freedom it doesn't even have, blindly and resolutely telling itself it is the best the world has to offer, and yes one party of a two party system is vastly, overwhelmingly, more complicit.<br />I don't say that about America as a put down, not at all, but as commiseration for a great people living in a great country that has been swindled out of a better present and perhaps any good future.Magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02423673258718941141noreply@blogger.com