So, Manson's monochrome CMYK-style tattoo was on full display in that...bewildering and surprisingly uninteresting new video...which may or may not be an uninspired riff off of the video for "The Dope Show." Ahem. Sorry. Lot more to say than I'd originally thought, I guess.
I may have previously mentioned my disdain for that particular iconography, but I don't think I ever got a decent counterargument for why it's any more redeemable than I originally thought. Can anyone give me a good explanation of how his CMYK-era tattoo/symbol is anything other than a swastika for someone who's too "edgy" to
not get a quasi-ironic swastika tattoo—which, it appears, is a thing—yet also too, uh, sensible(?), or not anti-semitic enough, or, I guess, not truly ballsy enough to get a full-on quasi-ironic swastika tattoo?
And if that multi-clause sentence was too messy to parse: Why are more people not talking about how this idiot has a not-very-thickly-veiled swastika tattoo smack in the middle of his chest? Did I miss a nuanced discussion of this sometime in the past few years?
Seriously. Dude was my goddamned hero for a good chunk of the nineties, a good chunk of my adolescence. I
want to think he's still all there, still firing on at least
most of his cylinders. But come the fuck on.