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+title: "What if Maslow Pyramid Is Upside Down"
+date: 2024-06-13T00:28:21+08:00
+lang: en
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+Today, while taking a shower, I had a sudden burst of inspiration about the concept of "spiritual needs": Is it possible that we are not starting to pursue spiritual needs after satisfying the basic ones, but instead, we are losing our spiritual fulfillment in the process of striving to meet those basic needs?
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+I thought about how our generation seems to place more emphasis on spiritual needs in all aspects of life. This includes the recent buzzword "sense of ritual," the phenomenon of "90s/00s generation reforming the workplace," hot topics like gender and racial equality, the focus on mental health, and the generation gap these issues create. Essentially, as a common narrative suggests, our generation is one that, after solving basic survival issues, turns to pursue higher-level spiritual needs.
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+Then, I also thought of the notion that people in the past lived simpler, more relaxed, and happier lives (assuming this isn't just a romanticization of the past but is actually true). These nostalgic theories often mention entertainment in nature without the internet and electronic gadgets. Often, a conclusion drawn that industrialization and the internet have rotten people's spiritual lives.
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+So, I started to wonder if today's increasing focus on the spiritual world might actually be influenced by the latter (negative) theory, rather than being a purely positive implementation of Maslow's pyramid.
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+Then I also realized that Maslow's hierarchy describes an individual perspective, interpreting personal needs and development. The latter theory, however, looks at society as a whole. If we flip Maslow's pyramid and view it from the top down, interpreting each layer as a societal guarantee, it seems that in a society where basic needs are assured, the amount of societal guarantee for basic needs becomes the "ceiling" for spiritual guarantee. It limits the total capacity of spiritual nutrition society can provide. For example, industrialization is a necessary step for a developed society to feed its members effeciently. But it also brings about the homogenization of urban development, leading to the aforementioned questioning of life being less relaxed and happy on a spiritual level.
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+So, does this implicit rule *really* exist? In an ideally developed society, does the process of fulfilling basic needs always limit the fulfillment of higher-level needs like an inverted pyramid? If such a phenomenon does exist, which exact steps or processes of the societal development cause the limitation at each layer?
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+These thoughts are just random and based on many "assumed to be correct" points. I don't have any expertise in sociology or anthropology. All I know is that if I stay in the shower any longer, my water and electricity bill will very much “developed”.

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+title: "有没有可能马斯洛的需求金字塔是倒过来的"
+date: 2024-06-13T00:28:21+08:00
+lang: zh-cn
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+今天洗澡的时候从“精神需求”这一概念突然迸发的灵感：有没有可能我们并不是在满足了温饱需求之后开始追求精神需求，而是在共赴满足温饱需求的过程当中丢掉了精神满足？
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+想到我们这代人好像在生活的方方面面都更加注重精神需求：包括近年网红的关键词“仪式感”，包括“90/00 后整顿职场”这样的社会现象，包括性别平等、种族平等等热门议题，包括对精神疾病的关注等等，以及这些林林种种的因素引发的代沟。即，正如一种我们近几年常常听到的论调所说，我们这代人是在满足了温饱问题之后，开始转而去追求更高层次精神需求的一代人。
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+但是我又同时想到这么一种说法，说从前人们生活有多么淳朴、轻松、快乐。（假设这不是我们这代人对“从前”的美化幻想，而是确有其事。）通常这种追忆会伴随着提到从前在田野自然间的、不需要互联网和电子设备的娱乐方式。进而，得到结论说工业化与互联网让人们的精神世界更加贫瘠了。
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+于是我就想到，当今社会对精神世界的逐步重视，有没有可能真的也受后者影响，而非完全是积极的、对马斯洛金字塔的实践？
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+于是我又想到，马斯洛需求金字塔原来描述的是一种个人视角，是个人需求和身心发展的诠释。而后者则是整个社会的宏观视角。如果我们把马斯洛金字塔倒过来，从上往下看，并且把每一层理解为社会所提供的保障，则仿佛在一个保证温饱的世界，温饱本身的社会保证量成为了精神食粮的“天花板”，限制着社会所能提供精神食粮的总容量。例如，工业化是一个发达社会满足成员温饱的必经之路，但它也会带来城市建设的同质化，进而出现所谓“好像生活不如从前淳朴、轻松、快乐”的精神层次的质疑。
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+那么，这样的制约是否真的存在呢？是否对于一个人们朴素认知上完全发达的完美社会，在满足底层需求供给的过程中必将削减高层需求的供给，然后一层套一层形成倒金字塔的结构呢？如果确实存在这种现象，那每一层的削减具体是由社会哪方面的发展造成的呢？
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+以上的想法中参杂了很多“假设正确”的论点，只是随便猜想，我也没有社会学和人类学的专业知识储备。我只知道我再洗下去水电费就要超标了。