Three thoughts, part two

[olifhar]

Today was a light day at the package sorting hub. We finished extremely early. While that means fewer hours, I found it convenient, since I will need to be up very early tomorrow morning to head to NYC.

The light load was also fortunate, since my counterpart--I'll call him Cowen--was not in. He stands on the other side of the belt and also assists

Comments

[abangaku]

Hey Oliver. I just now skimmed the Maslow's Hierarchy Wikipedia article that you linked to. I wonder if Maslow intended people to use his model as any kind of self-help guide at all, rather than having it be purely descriptive. Because if so, the details sure seem worrisome. Especially the section on sex -- encouraging people to seek out sex at the same level of urgency as food and shelter, before even safety, just seems to me like a recipe for disaster. ... Relatedly, it also really bothers me that getting married, having children, etc., are thought of as general life milestones at all

[olifhar]

Yeah, I use Maslow's hierarchy as a descriptive framework. I'm less interested in his prescriptions, which seem outdated and not very universal. I don't think the hierarchy he laid out generalizes to everyone. Keirsey, author of Please Understand Me, has ideas about how the model could still work with different strata for different kinds of people. But for me the original order does mostly seem to hold. Esteem, or social related needs do seem to start coming in after safety. When I am not able to pay for basic things, somehouw I stop caring so much about social status. When I short circuit social status by shredding scripts, I begin to start thinking about arts and creative things, which I hesitantly group in self-actualization concerns