Cultural Pyramids
Jul. 26th, 2015 03:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithI have long said that the pyramid of needs is only one way of organizing those values. Check out the Blackfoot version.
For me, the need to know and understand is fundamental. Social connections are luxuries from a philosophic point of view, although in this context I need people for practical concerns; but I just don't have as much intrinsic NEED for other people as most folks seem to. And my transcendence can't turn off no matter what I or anyone else may do; like my sense of self, it is indelible. The base of my pyramid is, more explicitly than for most people although it is true for everyone, the biosphere of the Earth. No biosphere, no nothing. Because I know that, my behavior is very different from people who place their own body's needs at the base.
They're all just concepts. You can prioritize them in any order you want. Some orders are more effective than others. I'm not terribly impressed with the planetwide results of personal-body-needs as a foundation.
For me, the need to know and understand is fundamental. Social connections are luxuries from a philosophic point of view, although in this context I need people for practical concerns; but I just don't have as much intrinsic NEED for other people as most folks seem to. And my transcendence can't turn off no matter what I or anyone else may do; like my sense of self, it is indelible. The base of my pyramid is, more explicitly than for most people although it is true for everyone, the biosphere of the Earth. No biosphere, no nothing. Because I know that, my behavior is very different from people who place their own body's needs at the base.
They're all just concepts. You can prioritize them in any order you want. Some orders are more effective than others. I'm not terribly impressed with the planetwide results of personal-body-needs as a foundation.
