Block of 800+ Reviews | The Divided Self by Ronald D Laing
Another Example of Crypto-Judaism
Raeto West 21 July 2024
I'd thought there was a connection with Gregory Bateson (1904-1980), who seems to have developed the 'double bind' theory, but I couldn't find a link.
There was some talk of 'nuclear weapons', and of the Vietnam War—an anecdote I recall had Laing in discussion with a Vietnamese man explaining how he kept calm while his wife and children were being murdered by Americans.
Laing took his philosophy fairly seriously, but was of course handicapped by (I think) knowing nothing about Jews. I couldn't relocate a film, in black and white, of Laing speaking to the camera on such things as Galileo and also Sartre, though Laing didn't seem to know Sartre was a Jew.
If people are still talking of Laing and others, take it from me that if Jews aren't mentioned, their output will be a waste of time.
It's impossible to tell how articulate Laing was; it's not known how heavily edited he was. For example, the famous passage about his child delivery experience of an anencephalous child (or 'child') can hardly have been accurate; it must have been known the child was malformed.
Many of his stories were shaped and edited. For example a boy slowly revealed to have a polio-deformed leg must have been obvious from the start of the interview.
Laing had an isolated upbringing; but went to Glasgow Medical School; pretty much up the road. I can't tell if he liked it or was just sent there as a career move. The biogs I've seen are evasive.
A film by Peter Robinson (Asylum, 1972) was notorious for being unavailable for years. However, it's online now. It is a 'documentary' (without documents) on 'Kingsley Hall', a fancy name for a grotty (the 'mot juste', I think) house, I think in London. It captures the slow-moving mental inertia, probably successfully, of such places. I wondered if Jews like mentally-enfeebled people.
The Jewish point here is that Laing's mum may have been a Jew, and he may have been kept away from other children. A great deal of material suggests this, including the Jewish accents of people in his circuit (see the videos, if they remain), including Szasz from the USA. All these are missing from K MacDonald. The whole substructure, including the split between Jews among themselves and vs the 'goyim' which often lasts for lifetimes, is reminiscent of Jews and Freud and assorted Jewish frauds, of which the 'Holocaust' is big, but not as big as the entire 'Chosen people' racket and the 'only we talk to God' idea.
At that time, I was in Hampstead in north London. £1,000 was a salary; George Melly with his flugelhorn accompaniment sang; 'A Woman Needs a Man Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle' posed as a slogan; house prices had been planned to rise; a shop called 'Golden Tassel'; politics was a Jew-unaware conspiracy; expansions of what was called 'further education' were fueled by contracts up to retirement age; Jews planned their schemes, such as 'racism'.
And Laing was adopted by some middle-class types, who had secret money and did things like Poetry and Yoga teaching. I remember an unexpected wife of a man who sounded aristocratic; I never found out what was happening, and I never met him and, lacking the bunch of Jewish keys, would only have been puzzled.
-Raeto West 21 July 2024