In other words, keep the proles low on Maslow’s Hierarchy and the oligarchs have free reign to rape the planet and gain even more power in a vicious cycle.
It’s the reason said proles can’t care about higher-order stuff like politics, but desperately need to anyway.
I check basically all boxes (except the blue one perhaps), yet somehow each segment feels like its gonna collapse any moment. Perpetual anxiety is the result.
Human experience is never absolute. You can’t really compare what you feel with what another person feels by looking just at your immediate situation. Experiences depend on personal history and expectations, even if you try to rationalize that other people are objectively in worse situations than you.
In other words, keep the proles low on Maslow’s Hierarchy and the oligarchs have free reign to rape the planet and gain even more power in a vicious cycle.
It’s the reason said proles can’t care about higher-order stuff like politics, but desperately need to anyway.
Yea, my pyramid is broken.
I check basically all boxes (except the blue one perhaps), yet somehow each segment feels like its gonna collapse any moment. Perpetual anxiety is the result.
Sounds like you don’t check the yellow box
Depends on perspective.
Technically I am safer than most humans. I have a job, a flat, etc. I live in a country with a good social net even if I were to lose my job.
Yet still it feels like standing at the edge of a cliff for either no rational reason or many small convoluted reasons.
Human experience is never absolute. You can’t really compare what you feel with what another person feels by looking just at your immediate situation. Experiences depend on personal history and expectations, even if you try to rationalize that other people are objectively in worse situations than you.