There are forms of alienation that are relatively strange to statistically "normal" forms of alienation. The "normally" alienated person, by reason of the fact that he acts more or less like everyone else, is taken to be sane. Other forms of alienation that are out of step with the prevailing state of alienation are those that are labeled by the "normal" majority as bad or mad.
The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.
Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.
Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
--R.D. Laing
"The Politics of Experience"
1967
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_David_Laing
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THEME: We need to stop killing people as Priority #1. If you are not alive, nothing else matters.
My “philosophical” posts attempt to avoid both religion & politics (as expressed at the end of my Oct 24, 2007 post). While this may be impossible, one can always hope for some universal commonality. (My posts not always successful.)
AND please start with my earliest posts (from Sept 30, 2007).
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