By 1974 R.D. Laing's The Politics of Experience had undergone 12 Printings after the original 1968 First Printing . His Message had been received and ALMOST `glorified` --- I recall seeing it featured in the window of the College Hill Bookstore on the Campus of Brown University . ( I was still in high school in 1968 and the Vietnam was still raging) . Only ONE of my high school buddies had bothered to read it, that because of the influence of his older sisters . It wasn't until 1975 that I sat down with the good Doctor .
Dr. Laing's claim, that Civilization had gone INSANE was viewed with skepticism among the Military Industrialists and recondite Intellectuals who fancied themselves as wisdom-laden pundits . I viewed his World View as MONSTRUOUSLY* Beautiful . His Effort to conceptualize War as ``PRIMITIVE`` ``Ritual`` made PERFECT Sense to me , for how can War, IN ANY MODE, be considered "Civilized" ???
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