I have personally always viewed his whole career and character as a critique of the industry, of the lewd kind of monster it produces and craves. I could be completely wrong, but it has always seemed like a dark satire of Hollywood and the music industry relying heavily on the metaphor of Manson, who becomes the antichrist spirit the industry as a whole desires to create. Manson's brilliance was to actually give it to them, and then sit back in the irony of their shock at getting it. He wanted to be a living argument *ad absurdum*...to become in total what the industry sells in fragments, the synthesis of the whole fucking machine as one grotesque product, so that people could see the absurdity of the amalgam of their ideals. Of course, I imagine 1% of people got it, and the rest didn't get the point. Again, I could be incredibly wrong, but I always enjoyed what he did and found it pretty intelligent.