When Reality Mirrors Fiction at the End of the World

Nearly all of us are interested in a story involving social conflict, sex and violence, entitlement versus non-privilege, sexual abuse, and/or impropriety, wealth versus poverty, and racial tensions that flare out of control.

This is not only Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, the new Tarentino flick, it is also our everyday headlines.

Where Charles Manson and his family of devoted followers failed to start a race war, our fearless national family leader, Donald Trump, seems to be succeeding much more effectively at inciting his cult to racism, sexism, and at times, even violence.

The division, and race war Manson wanted, now seems possible.

Racism and sexism

Fifty years ago. Roman Polanski, the husband of slain beauty, starlet Sharon Tate, lamented the loss not only of his wife, but of his unborn child. A very pregnant Sharon was brutally stabbed to death by Manson family members.

Somehow, without motive to do it themselves, they slavishly did it for Manson, who was determined to bring about social chaos, and American division, that he called Helter Skelter.

Maybe the Beatles were put off just enough that they broke up later the same year, marking an end to so much hope for love and peace. Their…