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Some of the things he is saying here are deeply profound, and betray a really penetrating understanding of psychology, and other things. He has that mystic's way of speaking about them, though, which will turn off many of the pseudo-intellectual types, those who listen to actual intellectuals, understanding perhaps half of what they hear, but who then come to equate genius with a certain manner of speaking and dress. So many today would toss aside what Manson is saying here as the specious rambling of a crazy man. Not at all.

I am not saying Manson qualifies in this regard, I simply don't know enough about him, but I think some people know things so large that they can't put them into words - namely because what they know is so integrating, and unifying and big-picture, while the academic function and intellectual trend of our university system (really, the whole scientific project) is to explode categories and domains, as opposed to unify. That's why big picture reasoning usually gets labeled under conspiracy theories, and rarely makes it except only in the most theoretical of sciences and in the most cookie-cutter and irrelevant applications.