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Its been a rough few days for Marilyn Manson.
His aesthetic posturing has always been difficult to distinguish from just being a huge asshole, all the time.
When so much hierarchy is masked by being nice, being mean can often signify doing the right thing.
But times change, tastes shift, and bad people put on different masks.
Aesthetically or politically, disrespect is no guarantee of integrity; it might even predict strongly for its absence.
He has always been free to say so, and more free than most.
But theres not much glory left in crossing lines just to prove you exist, let alone any excellence.
