«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».
(Ronald D. Laing, The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise, Penguin Books (reprint), London 1990 p. 24)
