Charles Milles Manson the infamous cult leader of the Manson Family. He led his people around four locations in California over a period of five weeks in the middle of 1969. Manson had a following of over 100 people with a hard-core unit of impressionable young girls who obeyed him without question. He believed in Helter Skelter that is a song from the Beatles white album. He believed the lyrics are talking about a upcoming race war and his follower began to believe he was Jesus. Manson became obsessed with cult churches such as Church of the Final Judgment. Manson and his followers used LSD and mushrooms in large quantities.
Charles Manson born Charles Milles Maddox on November 12, 1934, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Kathleen Maddox, a 16-year-old
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This theory suggest that individuals either develop self-control by age 10 or do not. Those who do not will become criminal. Manson early childhood was not consistent, his mom was not around for his early life and she had men come and go, never having a father in their life. On serval occasion the mother rejected Manson claiming to want no part of his life. This is why Manson chose to attack celebrities because of how important they were to society, they represented a stable and successful life that Manson could not have, because of the lack of low self-control he learned as a child from his mom or lack of one. This is part of why Manson wanted to create a family (cult) to make up for the one he never had. He had relatives that offered him a home but it was short lived he could not control himself from stealing, sending him to serval different prisons. He was married and had a job but could not hold either of these pointing to a low self-control. Mixing low self-control and putting him in a prison with others with low self-control can only make one thing and that is a learned criminal