From the moment of birth, when the Stone Age baby confronts the twentieth century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents before them, these forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities says Laing. According to him this enterprise is on the whole successful. By the time the new human being is fifteen or so, we are left with a being like ourselves. A half crazed creature, more or less adjusted to a mad world. This is normality in our present age.
he says further that family life is to induce a false consciousness of security: to deny death by avoiding life, to cut off transcendence, to believe in "GOD", not to experience the void, to create in short, one-dimensional man, to promote respect, obedience, to con children out of play, to induce a fear of failure, to promote a respect for work, to promote a respect for respectability’. Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality!
(Laing, 1967).
I am not sure whether he wrote this in anger, or in the moment of perfect clarity. Socialists will have no problems agreeing with him. He might sound bit naive for Scientists. At present, I feel like a blank slate upon which society writes its narrative. Helplessness?
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