- StarlitPanther:
- Charles Manson is extremely interesting to me too. I think he is quite intelligent, but has some emotional and mental issues. What he did was wrong, but you can not deny he has a great deal of intelligence.
I think what his 'family' did was sick but I am less appalled at that now. I mean, it's still horrible but you should hear some people's exaggreations of what happened. After hearing those, what the 'family' actually did isn't crazy bad like I thought. Haha, awfully sad it happens that way isn't it?
I believe if he hadn't had those emotional and mental problems, he would have had made a great man out of himself due to his intelligence and other few good traits he does have.
It's not necessary that he had major mental issues or anything like that - he had a really fucked up up-bringing, so his sense of right and wrong went totally out the window.
As for being smart, he only had an IQ of 109, but he was able to convince some very stupid and lonely people into doing his bidding. He'd altered these people's sense of what's good and bad and their whole personalities with LSD, as well as these people were already complete losers, just begging for somewhere to fit in, and someone to tell them what to do and what to think.
Kids still write to Charles in prison, asking if they can join his cult, because they want a sense of belonging, too.