I've always thought of Charles Manson as being the small scale American version of Hitler.
Both were small guys with powerful personalities. I think with both of them their later life delusions and ideas were brought on by amphetamine use, plus LSD with Manson. They both had either a purely learned understanding of how to manipulate people but some of that could have been intuitive.
I really doubt Manson was schizophrenic, at least at the time of him having his own cult. I think maybe a person with a drug fueled psychosis can be persuasive to attract/maintain a group following, but not a schizophrenic. That's just in my humble opinion.
Both were small guys with powerful personalities. I think with both of them their later life delusions and ideas were brought on by amphetamine use, plus LSD with Manson. They both had either a purely learned understanding of how to manipulate people but some of that could have been intuitive.
I really doubt Manson was schizophrenic, at least at the time of him having his own cult. I think maybe a person with a drug fueled psychosis can be persuasive to attract/maintain a group following, but not a schizophrenic. That's just in my humble opinion.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
