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Creative Maladjustment
Project: Start your own revolution
Project: Start your own revolution
Revolution entails perceiving the status quo for what it is, here and now, rather than through the spectacles of the past. The past's conceptual constructions and terminologies, which have fermented into euphemisms, can no longer be trusted and must now be abandoned. The revisioning of our present must involve a radical reevaluation of what is thought to be sane and insane, and what is tolerated and what is just. By revolution, we recover the sanity we lost - and the humanity we lost - in constituting ourselves as well-adjusted human beings, inculcated with the absurdity of our milieu.
In a 1967 speech, Martin Luther King, Jr. called for the establishment of the International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment, an organization that would cultivate the kinds of maladjustment that would rein in a more just, human era:
The very same year, R.D. Laing published The Politics of Experience, a work characterized by a revolutionary, plainly truculent, attitude. Following are two excerpts from the book that resonate with MLK's appeal for maladjustment and its merits:
In a 1967 speech, Martin Luther King, Jr. called for the establishment of the International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment, an organization that would cultivate the kinds of maladjustment that would rein in a more just, human era:
The very same year, R.D. Laing published The Politics of Experience, a work characterized by a revolutionary, plainly truculent, attitude. Following are two excerpts from the book that resonate with MLK's appeal for maladjustment and its merits:
The perfectly adjusted bomber pilot may be a greater threat to species survival than the hospitalized schizophrenic deluded that the bomb is inside him.
Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction. Perhaps to a limited extent we can undo what has been done to us and what we have done to ourselves. Perhaps men and women were born to love one another, simply and genuinely, rather than to this travesty that we call love. If we can stop destroying ourselves we may stop destroying others. We have to begin by admitting and even accepting our violence, rather than blindly destroying ourselves with it, and therewith we have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
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