Reposting this from another thread, because I think it relates to LRM's psychology... his interest in, and plagiarizing of, Charles Manson and also, sharing with Manson, the psychopath's resistance to taking responsibility for their actions: it's not my fault, it's society's fault!
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Originally Posted by Haunted82
I'm curious do you have an online source or link that associates Manson with that quote. I've studied him for years and never heard that exact quote prior to this case. I tried googling it but couldn't find a match. It certainly is a quote I can see associated with LRM, as that's his train of thought.
Here is LRM's "mirror" quote that he scrawled on the wall of his apartment:
If you don't like the reflection, don't look in the mirror
Source:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/06/11/t...-face-of-evil/
LRM is saying that he is a reflection of society-- if we don't like what he has done, then we better not look in the mirror at ourselves.
This basically a copied/plagiarized paraphrase of Manson's famous notion (in his testimony at trial) that he is a "reflection" of society (" I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you").
Here are a few Manson quotes from his testimony in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial:
I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.
I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me . . . but I am only what lives inside each and everyone of you.
My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system. . . I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.
Source:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/project...stimony-m.html
Same idea. I don't think LRM has ever had an original thought in his life, TBH.