The Sixties—a time so different from everything that came before it. Nothing has been the same since. We live in its chaotic, manic shadow. It seems like we always will. How can we make sense of it? Is it even possible? I think that the only way to make sense of something so cataclysmic, so mind-altering as the 1960s, is to embrace the most absurd, terrifying, evil answers—because what else could reveal the truth of such a beastly time? Extreme times demand extreme truths.
We should see all the key 60s events—from the public execution of JFK in 1963, to the dawn of mass murder and mass shootings in 1966 (Charles Whitman and Richard Speck), right through to the Charles Manson murders in 1969—all as one event. And everything that happened after—especially the age of serial killers in the 1970s and 80s, and the age of mass shootings from the 1990s to now—is the logical outgrowth of that evil time.
Here’s my speculative historical take: The 1960s was the beginning of a long, psycho-spiritual war on the American people, fought for Satanic ends, by a cabal of occult elites who feed off of confusion, chaos, fear, and suffering. Starting in the 1960s, they have used the great mass of meat known as the American people as a kind of petri dish to create horrors, which gives them more psychic power, and makes the American meat-mass even more confused and hopeless and distrustful. More confusion means more power. More suffering means more power.
The world has been evil for a long time, and it’s getting eviler every day. When did it start? Has it been random, or organized? The world has gotten so evil and hopeless in just a few decades since the 1960s—it seems more likely that such a thing was done in coordination, with an agenda behind it, not just the random results of a general drift towards evil. Things don’t get this evil, on this scale, by accident. The Satanic elites want the masses to feel like it’s all random, to be helplessly asking—why? Why are these mass shootings taking place? Why do all these acts of nihilistic violence plague us, why why why? This frenzy of death that seems to follow us around…where did it come from?
I’ll tell you a story about how it started. It began with the killing of JFK in November 1963. This was the opening salvo in the successful attempt to make the world eviler. The assassination has been called a coup before, and I think that’s correct—but what kind of coup? For what reason? And by who? The worst answer is usually the correct one—it was a coup by elite Satanists, to create a world of evil, which they and their demonic masters could feed off of and draw dark spiritual energy from.
Neoliberalism is about creating as much misery, confusion, and hopelessness as efficiently as possible. The JFK assassination started the neoliberal era off and is the best example of it: one death causing permanent confusion, paranoia and hopelessness for millions of people. The neoliberal era—freedom for markets and corporations, and slavery for everyone else—started off in the perfect way.
The most important thing about the killing of JFK—what sticks out most about it—is how it was right out in the open. They exploded his head in plain sight for everyone to see. They even got it on film. Hell, I watched it in high school history class: The president’s head exploding, his brains leaking out, his wife trying to catch bits of his brain so that the doctors could cram them back into his broken skull. (She was really on the ball, that Jackie O).
And this is exactly how occult groups operate—doing wildly unbelievable things right out in the open. Occult means hidden, but the best way to hide something is to not hide it at all. The more gruesome and unreal it is, the better—it can’t be processed, it breaks your brain, it causes a kind of mass dissociative identity disorder to even begin to comprehend.
The MK Ultra mind control program began in 1953. Probably earlier than you thought, right? By the 60s it was a well-oiled machine, successfully programming patsies to do high-profile assassinations and gruesome mass murders. But it was successful right away at programming people to kill. In 1954, just one year after MK Ultra was launched, a World War Two veteran named Jimmy Shaver brutally killed a 3 year old girl around Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. He had been experimented on with chemicals and hypnosis, and after the killing he claimed he had no memory of what he did. (He was given the death penalty anyways). It worked perfectly, and it was just the beginning.
In almost every case of society-shattering Satanic slayings, the killer had connections to the military—that’s when they get programmed to kill. This shouldn’t be surprising—the military exists not to defend us, but to kill large quantities of people, literally to make human sacrifices, to appease Satan. Michael Aquino, an admitted Satanist who even started his own Satanic sect (the Temple of Set), was a high-ranking military intelligence officer for many years, and openly talked about his Satanic beliefs. He faced no repercussions, and in fact seemed to get promoted the more he talked about Satanism. (Some people speculate that Aquino was actually the Zodiac Killer).
After the JFK assassination, mind-controlled assassins doing the work of the devil were unleashed again and again. In early April 1966, CIA asset Henry Luce’s Time magazine featured the question “Is God Dead?” on its cover; three weeks later, on April 30, 1966, founder of the Church of Satan, Anton LaVey, declared the dawn of the Age of Satan. Human sacrifices were about to take a giant leap.
That summer, America got its first mass murderer in Richard Speck, and first mass shooter, in Charles Whitman. America was about to get its first exposure to new types of crimes, new types of criminals, new types of evil, beyond its wildest dreams.
On July 13th, 1966, Richard Speck broke into a townhouse in Chicago and, using only a knife, killed eight nurses who were staying there. A couple weeks later, on August 1st, Charles Whitman, a former Marine who spent weeks hospitalized in a military medical facility, sniped 17 people on the University of Texas campus in America’s first mass shooting. One small step for Satan, one giant leap for Satankind.
Both of these crimes are highly suspicious—there was very little evidence tying Speck to the murders (and how is one guy going to kill eight people with only a knife anyway?). The only evidence was the testimony of one (highly questionable) witness. It’s likely that Satanic elites committed the murders to appease the devil and pinned it on Speck as a patsy. (This is a pattern that would repeat throughout the 70s and 80s—most of the famous serial killers in history were patsies that took the fall for crimes they couldn’t possibly have committed, which were most likely done by elite Satanists as human sacrifice rituals). Speck had a nice time in prison—he was granted supplies of cocaine and even got a set of fake tits, to make him more valuable in the sexual marketplace of prison. If you take the fall for Satanic elites, sometimes they take care of you!
As for Charles Whitman: he is supposed to have hauled a massive arsenal up to the top of a tower on the University of Texas campus, in peak summer heat no less, all by himself—three rifles, three handguns, a shotgun, 700 rounds of ammo, two knives, food, water, and gasoline for three days, a radio, hammer, hatchet…all with no help and no one noticing. So many shots crackled out of the tower that many witnesses on the ground assumed there were multiple gunmen.
If you look at both of these crimes, these…ultracrimes—the first mass murder and first mass shooting—it’s clear that Speck and Whitman could not have done it (or if they did, they didn’t do it alone). But these ultracrimes—these human sacrifices, which is what they always are—always have to be pinned on one lunatic, a lone wolf…just like JFK’s exploding head was pinned on Lee Harvey Oswald…(and we all know that was fake…I don’t even need to go into that…).
And right around this same time, the Vietnam War went into full swing—human sacrifices galore! The most crucial thing about the Vietnam War, for our story here, is something called the Phoenix Program. This was a program of civilian assassination operated by US special forces between 1968-1972. Almost 30,000 Vietnamese people were slaughtered in this program; its point was to terrorize the Vietnamese through torture, mass murder, and all the ghoulish evil touches that came to be known as the hallmarks of serial killers in America in the 70s and 80s: eviscerations, decapitations, desecration of corpses…After the Phoenix Program ended, those skills were brought back to the USA.
But the story of the 60s is also about resistance to all of this evil. The 60s was the biggest period of mass protest against injustice in American history—especially protest marches against racism, and above all, war. The Satanic elites didn’t like that—not one bit. And here’s where the most notorious killer of them all comes in: Charles Manson.
The history of Charles Manson is too long to go into much here, but let this suffice: he was in federal prison for almost his whole life, and released in 1967, right at the peak of hippie anti-war counterculture, and right in the middle of it, in Berkeley, California. He was like a one-man weapon of mass psychosocial destruction. He was on parole, but his parole officers never got him in trouble for his many, many crimes he committed while he was free. (And Manson was only free from 1967-1969, before going back to prison forever. He did all his shit in just two years—a man on a mission; a man given a mission; a man programmed to carry out his mission). Manson quickly formed a cult of followers—the Manson Family—where he basically turned them into psychopathic mass murderers. They had no history of violence, yet in August, 1969, they carried out gruesome, Satanic mass murders that sickened America worse than any crime since…the JFK killing.
How did Manson, who had no education at all, manage to administer psychological conditioning and LSD dosings in the perfect way to turn his followers into killers? Leslie van Houten, one of the killers, was homecoming queen at her high school—a normal well-adjusted girl—and a couple years later she was breaking into someone’s house and stabbing them dozens of times. Manson basically ran a mini MK Ultra clinic on his own—because he learned how to do all that shit from the CIA. That’s the only reason he was allowed out of prison, and not sent back even when he violated his parole so many times—he had a job to do, and that job was to convert normal 60s youth into bloodthirsty killers. Manson was a human psyop.
So what was the point? To get the public to associate hippies and anti-war counterculture movements with the Manson murders—and end the hippies once and for all. And it worked extremely well! Manson became both the face of ultimate evil and the face of the hippie movement, and that was that. He was a kind of social assassin. Manson was a tool of the Satanists, rather than a Satanist himself (in fact he was the opposite, he believed he was Jesus Christ). The counterculture died off pretty fast—and there was no longer any resistance to the Satanic evil, the massive human sacrifices, that followed in the 70s and 80s, the golden age of serial killing. Henry Lee Lucas, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and so many others—some of them did kill people, but mostly they were meant to take the fall for larger Satanic murder and sex cults. As the 80s gave way to the 90s and the 2000s, it became more efficient to do human sacrifices all at once—so mass shootings became the preferred method. The age of the serial killer was over. There’s always an escalation—from the assassination of JFK, to the first mass murderer, Richard Speck, the first mass shooter, Charles Whitman, then the first criminal superstar, Charles Manson; on and on, the stakes had to be raised. A visual language of violence and evil had been permanently seeded throughout the American psychosocial landscape. A whole generation was raised in a background of the most gruesome senseless violence imaginable—it became a kind of earworm, reproducing itself through power of suggestion.
The Satanic elites had reached the limits of what they could achieve through serial killers; school shootings and mass shootings were their focus now—they’re much more efficient, and there’s a massive pool of potential shooters in America, programmed through osmosis to kill, by having superstars of violence looming in the background.
And this brings us to the present—from JFK’s exploding head sixty years ago, through all the blood and death since, all of it giving the Satanic elites more power and energy. The more confusion, chaos and violence they orchestrate, the stronger and bolder they get. Starting with blowing up JFK’s head in broad daylight in front of the world, through inventing and introducing mass murderer and mass shooter as social archetypes, they must’ve been shocked at how easy it was to get away with it, and how they could always just pin it on some lone wolf patsy. Even if most Americans didn’t believe that the lone wolf patsy did it, it didn’t matter—they could always get spineless media hacks to puke out the official narrative. And so they just kept getting bolder and bolder, their power growing as corpses piled up.
But what happens now? Now the American meat-mass is chewed up, burnt out, barely staggering forward. Birth rates are going down, death rates are going up. Americans are dying earlier—and living more miserably during the short time they are alive! The Satanists who engineered all of it are gorging like never before—so much misery and death to feast upon!—but the mass of human meat they have relied on seems like it might not be around for too much longer. Diminishing returns. Engineering a society for nothing but madness and death isn’t sustainable, sadly.
So as the end nears, the Satanic elites will get even bolder—dropping a nuclear bomb, one that makes the one in Oppenheimer made seem like a toy…that seems to be where it’s all headed. Soon the whole world will look like JFK’s head…and the Satanists will feast and feast and feast like never before…
— Ted Metrakas is the author of several books of philosophy, including ANOTHER NEW WORD and STUDIES IN LIQUIDATION. He writes regularly on politics, history, and philosophy on his blog, The Daily Dialectic. He lives in New York City.