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Manson didn’t ‘kill the sixties’, as some have suggested. They committed suicide, ODed on excess, high expectations, and a belief that in getting rid of all repression - what I’ve called ‘giving way to strange forces’ - some pure, natural soul would emerge. They were wrong.
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Gary Lachman (Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius)