Back in the late 1970s....I had a Air Force room-mate who'd gotten into some college class, and he had some book which got heavily into Maslow's hierarchy of needs. At the end of the class, he gave me the book and I browsed this Maslow stuff.
Lets just say....I came off a farm in Alabama, and at this point....I was 'uneducated' (holding just a high school diploma).
In simple chatter....a human being prioritizes things....whether he grasps this or not. In the tribal game, you want security, food, and general shelter from bad climate.
After a while, you add layers of desires, and you keep prioritizing.
In the modern era? Well....you prioritize soft toilet paper, the type of soap in your bathroom, the amount of heat in the bathroom, and the quality of the towel hanging there.
Your car? You prioritize there.....asking for heated seats, or declining them. You ask for the bigger engine....the satellite radio, and literally a hundred options.
I suppose that you even start to prioritize the news you hear.....the politics that keeps you up at night....preferring premium beer over cheap beer....buying the more expensive motor oil over the cheap stuff....maybe even your preference over tunes.
The thing....isn't life about prioritizing.....a thousand things a day? And the key factor.....two-percent of folks don't give a damn about any prioritizing, and another two-percent over-dramatize life so much....that every second is about a priority over something?
I'm not sure if this Maslow stuff deserves 300 pages to explain, but it's just me speaking.
From the little I know of his 'work', I get the impression Abraham Maslow so loved looking at his words, he scribbled lots and lots of them.
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Of course, with the inestimable benefits of the Woke Intersectionality Crowd educating us in 2023, we now understand all about his horridly-awful CulturalBias™ polluting his skewed 'hierarchy'.
And, apparently, he cis-identified as a man, so that'd be another reason to ignore him...