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Maslow's hierarchy
This is an interesting read:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-06-18/the-blackfoot-wisdom-that-inspired-maslows-hierarchy/
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Yeah. I just don't see it in those terms. I don't relate to them or people who were trying to burn asylum seekers. I also think those people have always existed, but in the past would have been off fighting in a battle somewhere.
Fwiw I'm all for judicial reform. But I think society still need to excerpt punishment, and I don't think it's all the billionaires fault.
Billionaires aren't likely to punch you in the face, but they sure are in the habit of creating the circumstances which increase the likelihood of you getting punched in the face. And the circumstances in which archery may become a necessary life skill for our kids and grandkids.
We're born into a system which, although occasionally claimed to be about lifting us all up Maslow's hierarchy, is based on a zero-sum mentality which sees us all increasingly pushed down that hierarchy. We're sold this impoverished view of human nature which maintains that people are greedy and lazy, and society is already optimally organised because only the wolves at the door make most people contribute... to ever-increasing corporate profits. Morale will improve if only the beatings are continued.
Fuckwit who punches you in the head on a Saturday night only does so because we've been convinced that refusing to invest in people is what makes them turn out well. And we'll maybe throw him in a cage with a bunch of other antisocial types to sort him out, because somehow we're too thick to realise that the best possible punishment is making him fully comprehend the consequences of his actions, at which point the vast majority of folks would feel remorse and want a chance to atone.
Saturday night fuckwit is a Saturday night fuckwit because his da was a Saturday night fuckwit, and they watch the footy together and gamble and eat food made out of numbers and all the things that get advertised to them by the vultures and parasites given pride of place in our society, while fuck-all ever systematically happens to edify anyone not born in a swimming pool of cash.
You get the picture?