Ah! Gotcha. I misunderstood your original post; he totally
believed he was part of the Beat Movement.
He sort of blew off the hippie movement in later interviews, which is telling about how he considered himself "above" everyone else. He called hippies "kids." He compares himself to Elvis. ... He knew
exactly what he was doing.
I found this transcript of an old Manson interview:
"I was a beatnik before the hippies got started. I was a beatnik down in Venice pounding on them bongos and reciting poetry in the fifties— fifty-four, fifty-five. And when I got out and I seen what they did with the beat generation— they ate the beat generation up and they had the hippies on the block.
"And they was fixing to eat the hippies up like they ate the beats up. That’s where they made the mistake with me; they picked me up with the hippies and said I was a hippie. I wasn’t a hippie. I was a beatnik. Before the hippies; you guys were kids— they were kids to me. I had already went through that. I was Elvis Presley before he was."
Chilling. ... Disturbing. Guhhhhhh. *shivers :hills:
ETA: Reading over the interview with Manson, he easily uses "I" or "I'm" more than 300 times. A highly manipulative, racist, narcissistic sociopathic megalomaniac, imo.