Marilyn Manson

Some people give great faith or weight to celebrity comment perceived as wisdom or just like to dabble in tabloid culture, looking for reasons to hate anything that conflicts with their sense of what normal is, or more accurately, anything that conflicts with what has prominently been shoved, crammed, and hammered into their subconscious to be clacked and tapped out on social media.

Marilyn Manson A.K.A. Brian Hugh Werner, is known as the lead singer of the band “Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids,” which he co-founded with guitarist Daisy Berkowitz in 1989. His 1990’s albums such as Portrait of an American family, Antichrist Superstar, and Mechanical Animals earned him a reputation in mainstream media as a controversial figure. The band has had eight releases debut in the top 10, including two No. 1 albums.

Marilyn Manson stirred controversy by presenting music, art, and literature that was able to shock both the brain dead masses and the chattering classes. He was very successful in rattling cages and his marketing strategy brought great publicity, wealth, and notoriety, especially when the ‘Me Too’ movement became a revenge porn phenomenon. He successfully revealed the hypocrisy across the political and social spectrum. MM presented images that invited hysterical speculation of dark evil that distracted the masses from the real evil being perpetrated by his critics. Democrats, Liberals, and WOKE Hollywood glitterati drooled over Marina Abramovic’s spirit cooking and Comet Pizza hot dogs yet found cause to criticize or try to cancel Marilyn Manson for shining light on elite corruption and perversion.

No matter what you think of the MM brand, if you ever have, and the persona created by Mr. Warner, he was smarter than most in the music business and his intelligence came though the presentation. He is a contradiction, a parody, and a strong voice for what is wrong with society. I was never a huge fan of his music but his art and words made me rethink and look beyond the ‘shock’ celebrity of his work. I was more of a Skinny Puppy fan.

Quotes from Marilyn Manson :

“Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?”

“When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?”

“You get depressed because you know that you’re not what you should be.”

“All the drugs in the world won’t save us from ourselves.”

“Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won’t be afraid of it anymore.”

“What doesn’t kill you is gonna leave a scar.”

“Most of the world’s problems could be avoided if people just said what they fucking meant.”

“We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.”

“If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren’t your friends.”

“But what’s real? You can’t find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything’s a lie, you can’t hurt yourself.”

Following are some excerpts from an interview Marilyn Manson had with Michael Moore during the filming of ‘Bowling For Columbine’ which was released in 2002. Moore’s film was intended to give ammunition to the perpetual, hysterical, open season, anti-gun lobbyist mob who seek to disarm Americans and cancel the second amendment from the U.S. constitution. The film dabbles in other possible causes for violence in America such as violence in music and video games as well as the desensitization from violence through American hegemony throughout history and the insane devotion to celebrity culture. There was an attempt at balance in the narrative in Moore’s documentary with irony, satire, and black humour but the overarching message was to promote the Liberal/Democrat calls for gun control.

Michael Moore : If you were to talk directly to the kids at Columbine or the people in that community, what would you say to them if they were here right now?

Marilyn Manson : I wouldn’t say a single word to them. I would listen to what they have to say, and that’s what no one did. The two by-products of that whole tragedy were, violence in entertainment, and gun control. And how perfect that that was the two things that we were going to talk about with the upcoming election. And also, then we forgot about Monica Lewinsky and we forgot about, uh, the President was shooting bombs overseas, yet I’m a bad guy because I, well I sing some rock-and-roll songs, and who’s a bigger influence, the President or Marilyn Manson? I’d like to think me, but I’m going to go with the President.

Michael Moore : Do you know that on the day of the Columbine massacre, the US dropped more bombs on Kosovo than any other day during that war?

Marilyn Manson : I do know that, and I think that’s really ironic, that nobody said ‘well maybe the President had an influence on this violent behaviour’ Because that’s not the way the media wants to take it and spin it, and turn it into fear, because then you’re watching television, you’re watching the news, you’re being pumped full of fear, there’s floods, there’s AIDS, there’s murder, cut to commercial, buy the Acura, buy the Colgate, if you have bad breath they’re not going to talk to you, if you have pimples, the girl’s not going to fuck you, and it’s just this campaign of fear, and consumption, and that’s what I think it’s all based on, the whole idea of ‘keep everyone afraid, and they’ll consume.’

When I was a kid growing up, music was the escape. That’s the only thing that had no judgments. You know, you put on a record, and it’s not going to yell at you for dressing the way you do. It’s going to make you feel better about it.

Marilyn Manson : I definitely can see why they would pick me. Because I think it’s easy to throw my face on the TV, because in the end, I’m a poster boy for fear. Because I represent what everyone is afraid of, because I say and do whatever I want.