The Politics of Experience

Laing's Article is about the lack of depth people have as far as understanding our experiences and sensations. People have been normalized by society to notice and experience the minimal as necessary for survival. Another important idea in this writing is that people by nature are 'interdependent' on each other, and that humans are supposed to have affects on one another, but now we are alienated from each other (as well as ourselves). Laing says that it is necessary to 'un-learn' the idea that alienation is normal "...before one can begin to experience the world afresh..."(1).
Laing mentions at the end of the piece that when a child is born they are a fresh start, free from the "...veils of mystification..."(2) that shroud our senses.