Helter Skullter

[Psychotronic]

sherryl199 wrote: Psychotronic -

I think feelings about

Helter Skelter

depend on your age. Of course it was a great Beatle's song. Unfortnately for those of us alive during Charles Mansion & followers' horrific killing of a pregnant Sharon Tate, her unborn baby and her friends, Helter Skelter and The Manson Family- or a take off of their names - will never be a good name for a game or evoke neutral feelings.

It depends on how you look at it.

...'Kay.

I do know the story, and Manson is the first thing I think of when anyone says

Helter Skelter

. And pig farms are the first thing I think of when somebody says

Green River

. But I don't think words should be off-limits because they become associated with some psycho. Without the media frenzy and the public fascination, these guys wouldn't have the power (and sometimes the motivation) that they do. I feel like it's basically a healthy thing to burn through the coat of awe surrounding their crimes and to simply use words the way they were intended. Holding murderers up as a mythical embodiment of evil does just as much to prolong their legacy as joking about them or studying them does. Arguably more. I don't think this has to do with age so much as world-view.