"Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don't look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide"
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“Keep Judging yourselves in Manson” is the tell. This is ecological rhetoric fused to cult logic: a closed moral court where “judging” means proving loyalty, and “Manson” functions as both authority and absolution. The mirror line is classic coercive inversion: self-reflection becomes betrayal. Don’t examine your complicity; redirect your scrutiny outward, toward a world that’s already condemned. It’s the language of purification disguised as environmental concern.
The ending is an ultimatum with apocalyptic romance: serve the Earth “or you will commit suicide.” It frames humanity as a parasitic guest who must earn continued existence, but it also erases politics, technology, and reform in favor of total submission. In context, Fromme isn’t offering a climate program; she’s offering a worldview where ecological crisis authorizes extremity, and where personal violence can be recast as planetary duty. The line works because it’s both indictment and permission slip - scolding the listener while granting the speaker moral elevation.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Fromme, Lynette. (n.d.). Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don't look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/keep-talking-about-moving-toxic-wastes-but-never-70129/
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Fromme, Lynette. "Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don't look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide." FixQuotes. Accessed February 1, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/keep-talking-about-moving-toxic-wastes-but-never-70129/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don't look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/keep-talking-about-moving-toxic-wastes-but-never-70129/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.





