ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the foundation upon which The Dark Side of the Moon communicates its critique of contemporary society and promise of a more meaningful existence. Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon is the notion that those labelled madmen are, enlightened individuals capable of perceiving the true reality of human existence and experience. While The Dark Side Of the Moon makes the numerous references to time that expose the folly of being either too blase or, conversely, too absorbed in its external passing, and the evident encouragement to ponder its inner, eternal existence, appear to support R. D. Laing's premise. Given Pink Floyd's allegiance to the British counter-cultural movement and the evident appeal of Laing's theory to the Bohemian fringe, who Roszak claimed were 'grounded in an intensive examination of the self' and 'the buried wealth of personal consciousness'. Theodore Roszak, the Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition.
