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...mainly vulgarizations of important issues of the case that have already been discussed more intelligently in such periodicals as The New York Times Magazine and Esquire. (Some of Schiller's ramblings, though, do have a sick sense of humor about them: "It was a satanic whim which sent [the Manson tribe to the Polanski home]. But Mr. and Mrs. Middle America need not be smug. That whim could have been saved for their house...
...touches on the many topics that must be sorted out if acid crimes are to be understood and prevented in the future. She tells, in a pathetically disjointed monologue, about her unhappy childhood (broken, alcoholic home): her extensive and sad sex life; her LSD experiences; her initiation into the Manson commune; her participation in the killing of actress Sharon Tate and her four house guests, and, a week later, in the "Copy Cat Murders" of a wealthy grocer and his wife...
...Like Referees. In the book, the Martian established a sort of religious colony called a "family" or "nest"-not unlike the commune that Manson led at a deserted movie-location ranch. Inhabitants of the novel's nest practiced free sexual sharing and group nudity, very much the way life was lived at Manson's ranch. In book and in life, the complete abandonment of personal ego to the all-powerful leader, usually through sexual submissiveness, was essential. The fictional Smith and the real Manson apparently shared a belief in their oneness with God. "Among Martians," Heinlein...
...most disquieting similarity between Manson's life and the novel concerns death. Heinlein's Martian teaches a bizarre philosophy of reincarnation. Beings do not die; they are simply "discorporated" and "sent back to the end of the line to try again." He enlists one of his female followers to help him discorporate some enemies of the cult. The Martian makes a list of those to be dispatched, and in one evening 450 are killed. Police believe that Manson, like the Martian, used his women to perform the grisly revenge that he sought on the group gathered with Sharon...
WHAT we want to do is make it so sex isn't a problem. Sex isn't a problem. Just ask Richard Brautigan. Ask Tony Conigliaro. Ask Charlie Manson, and Laura Nyro. It's our society that is the problem. (How many times have we heard that before .... Our society, the idea of it is a nothing.) All I know is that it isn't in man's nature as an animal to be so upset and un-relaxed about sex. He isn't afraid to talk about his acting. Somewhere back when the Church rose to incredible power, during...