Abe Maslow's Girl
I was listening to BBC world news and they were discussing the long range effects of Abraham Maslow's effect on psychiatry, and his famous pyramid of human development. I realized I was totally a Maslow believer. If you haven't heard of him, I'm shocked. His pyramid of human needs is taught in many science classes and psych classes. I studied it in an archaeology class at LBCC. Basically there are 5 levels: bottom level is your basics, food sex shelter, next is Safety or knowing the basics are covered for tomorrow, next Love and Belonging ie family and friends, then there is Esteem which is the respect of your peers, confidence, respect for others, and if you manage to climb up that far up the pyramid then you reach your "potential", self-actualization. You function from a higher place in yourself than the usual emotion fueled conditioned animal responses of the typical knucklehead. Maslow figured about 2% of the population was going to hit this high. Aren...