Posted on 11/22/2017 9:40:30 AM PST by detective
The Manson murders — the seven killings committed by Charles Manson’s followers in two days in Los Angeles in August 1969 — are often thought to mark the end of the 1960s, as if those brutal slayings were the inevitable outgrowth of the counterculture, the dark consequence of long hair, free love, casual drug use and a general breakdown of authority and social norms.
This sentiment was most famously expressed by Joan Didion in her book “The White Album.” She wrote that “in a sense” it was true that “the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brush fire through the community.”
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Charles Manson recruited his family from the Haight Ashbury hippies and other young people.
Manson wanted to get into the entertainment business and provided woman to many in an attempt to launch his career.
He spoke of revolution and the pigs as justification for his actions.
He was admired by SDS and weatherman types like Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
He wasn’t a product of it. He used it.
Of course not, NYT! He was the left's mainstream normal!
Good heavens! The NYT is getting worser and worser!
He took to it like a fish to water.
The “counterculture” was a petri dish where con men, sexual predators, cult leaders and assorted opportunists thrived.
AKA America’s Premiere Fake Newspaper.
The counterculture was the product of Critical Theory, hatched by the Frankfort school.
Critical Theory teaches to question all tradition, especially moral tradition, and turn it upside down.
Charles Manson and his gang followed Critical Theory exactly as its originators intended.
More NYT spook whitewashing.
Manson was a shrewd demon he knew exactly what type of person to recruit. The counter-culture spawned those persons and made them vulnerable to the madness of Manson.
Yep.
Like Rush Limbaugh (he’s just a year or so older than me) I grew up in the middle of the counterculture, and thought it was stupid even then. But many embraced it.
Manson was really a nice guy. It’s those conservative Christians who cause all the trouble. That’s what the NY Slimes has been telling us for many years.
Cut down the Christmas trees and kill the Christians, and everything will be OK.
If the New York Times says it then you know that Charles Manson WAS a Product of the Counterculture
Not a real Scotsman fallacy
Didn’t Bernardine Dohrn praise the killings? I seem to remember reading that, that right after the killings she said something to the effect of “After they killed those pigs with a fork they ate, wild cool!”
Last night, subbing for Hannity, Mark Steyn read a tribute to Manson that was written by Bernardine Dohrn, wife of Obama pal, Bill Ayers. Despite the NYT revisionism, Manson WAS a figure of the 60s counterculture.
The NYT scurries to move the historical goalposts. If there is one thing that characterizes the Left is their lying.
Beat me to it.
“The counterculture was a petri dish where con men, sexual predators, cult leaders and assorted opportunists thrived.”
Substitute “politics” for “counter-culture” and you statement is completely true today also.
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