| Kasz216 said:
B) The funny thing is 95% of people are taught Maslow wrong anyway. Most people are taught it's a set in stone "you need the bottom before the top". Which wasn't actually maslows intent, and he actually did say you COULD self actualize without those things. That and people think way more people are self actualizing then really are. For Maslow it being more of a theoretical state, that you are only in for brief periods of time, giving examples of a few people who were what he saw as "closest." (One of my former proffessors was a direct pupil of Maslow.) |
I am pretty sure Maslow didn't want it to be so cut and dry, and was mainly looking at trends. I would say the the pyramid also would dovetail in the poverty makes one dumber thread. As one is taxed on the lower end, it gets to be much harder to get to the higher end, for most people. Some people can show exceptions to that, and I believe cultures will usually put such people in the "saint" category. But, just because few people do, doesn't mean most people can, so the chart is generally valid.
I would say, as with all models, they are abstractions of reality, and exceptions can be shown to the model.
