[UA] Tha Bad Influence Archetype

[Andrew Ducker]

Monday, July 02, 2001, 1:33:36 PM, Nick wrote:

NW> In the small handful of times I've seen Marilyn Manson
NW> interviewed, he's seemed pretty intelligent, and quite aware that
NW> acting as he does was bound to create a backlash from the
NW> Christian right and such. So I'm thinking that he maybe was doing
NW> it deliberately, playing the Devil's Advocate, perhaps a version
NW> of the Two Faced Man.

Yup.  If you read his autobiography "The Long Hard Road out of Hell",
he's a provoker, tring to make people re-evaulate their
preconceptions.  Of course, most of the people that see his 'work'
don't think at all, they either latch onto it or are repulsed by it.

Hmm, now there's a possible archetype "The Misunderstood Teacher",
seen through misunderstood artists or anyone who tried to bring
people the truth and was totally misunderstood (Cassandra, for
instance).

Andy D
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