cNutgroist

I'm not normally one for quoting - that's for cunts - and also, I simply cannot remember a bloody thing anyone's ever said, neither to me personally nor humanity.

But... R.D.Laing was born today. Well, 79 years ago this very day, obviously. If he was born today, I wouldn't have heard of him and you wouldn't be able to pretend you did ;)

I also wouldn't be able to gratuitously stick a bunch of his quotes in this post. The reason I think he's worth quoting is that, for me, he's one of those people you thank for figuring it all out for you, when you could barely glimpse the truth on your own. I think they call them 'specialists'.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

and my absolute favourite...

The ordinary person is a shriveled, dessicated fragment of what a person can be... what we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other destructive action on experience. The "normally" alienated person, by reason of the fact that he acts more less like everyone else, is taken to be sane. Other forms of alienation are those that are labelled by the "normal" majority as bad or mad... can we not see that this voyage [schizophrenia] is not what we need to be cured of... but that it is itself a natural way of healing our own appalling state of alienation called normality?

of course, this has come up also because, well, what with all these strange murders that keep happening around me and the telly telling me i'm total fucking psyc... no, far from it, it's just that I went to a comedy club the other night and encountered Canada's Maddest Man 2006 and if i'm feeling up to it, I shall do no justice whatsoever to the experience by writing about it in a few days. Even now I'm questioning the reality of it all. It was so, so wrong.
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