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“Most of what you think you know about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is wrong.
This is the model that we all learned in psych 101 is wrong [image of Maslow’s pyramid is shown] where our basic physiological needs are at the bottom of the pyramid and achieving one’s full individual potential is at the apex.
What you may not have known is that Maslow spent 6 weeks with the Blackfoot First Nation in the summer of 1938. He learned about their worldview and the Blackfoot Tipi, appropriated and misrepresented their perspective to establish his own Maslow’s hierarchy, and then didn’t give them credit.
[Image of Maslow’s pyramid and Blackfoot tipi shown, described below]
According to the Blackfoot Tipi, self-actualization is at the bottom of the pyramid. In the middle we have belonging and community actualization, where people take care of each other and help each other with their basic needs. And at the top, we have cultural perpetuity, which is teaching each other how to live in harmony with the land and achieve community actualization through generations.
It makes so much sense, right? Taking care of oneself is not enough. We need to take care of each other and our community.
This is why we need to decolonize psychology.”
If anyone wants to learn more about this I suggest watching the late Narcisse Blood’s interviews on Maslow and the influence of Blackfoot worldviews on his work thru the Blackfoot Digital Library, they’re very in-depth
Eldon Yellowhorn also discusses Maslow and Blackfoot ways of knowing but I forget which interview it’s in
The picture at the start of the next paper shows Maslow at the reserve, btw.
Also this is good if you’re interested in a very short introduction to tipi construction and their use as homes and visual records of important knowledge:
I much prefer the Siksika model to Maslow’s. It places the individual at the base of the tipi, and the existential objective in that model is literally cosmic in scale. A self-actualized individual can better contribute to the community, and a self-actualized community and culture can perpetuate itself through time. The goal is so much larger than the realization of your own self, it’s about being a part of a greater whole and ensuring it lasts into perpetuity.
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my friends keep trying to look in the mirror but i dont have mirrors in my car so i fixed it
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every lactose intolerant person ive ever met: i mean TECHNICALLY im lactose intolerant but [goes on to justify the fact that theyre about to eat a dairy product]
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WHY ARE HYOY SO SMALL
STOP STOP HES ALREADY DESD
they cant stop grilling my boy. manlet simulator
the saga continues
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may 16: joan of arc’s canonization date, and the first MCR concert of 2022.
you don’t get it guys the first time “and so he gets to die a saint / but she will always be the whore” “take his body as a relic to be canonized” was ever performed live it was on joan of arc’s canonization date
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I don’t like to add to the noise of Software Developer Do Dumb Thing, but I feel like this is as if the Japanese government sent me an email going “it turns out there are a lot of you named Kenji Tanaka, so to solve this problem we are retiring passport numbers”
Our username system makes it difficult for folks fluent in other languages to express themselves. That’s why we’re moving to a system like the one on Twitter, where every Asian artist forced to get an alphanumeric username has a handle like @bc2931a or @2023jx or @wabababxa_, which is very easy to remember and shows how versatile alphanumeric handles are at expressing one’s non-English-speaking self
Discord’s post trying to convince me that we’re somehow now extremely allergic to the idea of sharing a number, despite the fact that Nintendo, that video game company that makes stuff for actual children, has had no problem with its users sharing IDs that are 14 digits long
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we as a society failed once we decided that homoerotic tension wasn’t a necessary feature of bands.
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(Some of) L.S. Dunes’ AMA on r/PostHardcore | 🗒 November 27, 2022 (click to enlarge/alt text available)
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