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The Manson Misconceptions The Ghost Society eBook Ron Kenner

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Ron Kenner is the co-author of “The Garbage People”, the definitive commentary on the Manson Murders. In this scathing essay Kenner discusses the destructive energies of our time. There is no shortage of horror in our past, but this essay reveals something distinctly modern — a new style of violence and inhumanity.… how mass murder for the sake of murder itself is communication by shock.

If you enjoy the writings of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Steven Pinker, Stephen Jay Gould, this thought provoking analysis—of how the failure of intelligent reasoning and loss of substantiality is tearing the U.S. apart—is for you.

“There is no good and no bad,” claims Manson, “ ‘Just what’s here and now is what counts. It’s all perfect and the way it is supposed to be.’”… “In such a mind trip,” the author’s add “‘… all but the now fades to convenient oblivion—no past to hang onto, no future to fear, nothing solid to get in the way.…’ And vaguely we understand how the losers might indeed welcome Charley’s perfect mental world, where the treatment of physical bodies becomes unimportant; or how, as one family member came to say, ‘Nothing had any meaning except what we gave it.’

A tenuous civilization with too much uncritical cynicism and too little healthy skepticism—and too little faith in civilization itself—has its breaking points. Yet it should be obvious that the answer to sloppy thinking is not no thinking, nor is the answer to the abuse of language to be found in the rejection of language or the rejection of civilization itself.

It would be comfortable to some, no doubt, to pointedly view the Manson phenomenon as a "hippy problem,” or a "drug problem,” or as the tragic result of Charles Manson's "helter skelter" grand plan of social Armageddon, or as though the killers in this tragic affair were simply hypnotized by Manson, the devil himself, or, at the least, mesmerized by this strange cult leader as a charismatic father figure. Some, no doubt, find comfort in presuming that the followers in this "family” were simply stupid, or that they came from a special class or segment of society that has no bearing on the larger community, and this, of course, includes the comforting thought that this unique absurdity could never involve you, or your daughter, or your friends; not even your next door neighbor whom you've never met. There have been other such simple 'explanations', and yet any of these, while retaining perhaps some spark of truth—and even all of them together—fail to give us a reasonable understanding of the problem.

About Ron Kenner.
Ron Kenner has co-authored several well-received dramatic non-fiction autobiographies/biographies, including the classic Charles Manson book “The Garbage People.” Ron has personally edited more than one hundred published fiction and nonfiction books, including some dozen national gold medal/first place winners. Before turning to writing and editing Ron worked as a journalist on the Los Angeles Times and as an investigative reporter, columnist, and editor for a number of other newspapers and magazines. Ron’s own bylined feature articles have been published in newspapers and magazines in more than a dozen countries. Ron is listed in the Marquis’ Who’s Who in the West and is a member of PEN and other writers’ organizations. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Mary and their cat, Mazel.