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Honestly this is capitalism in a nutshell- apply this to all the fruits of your labour and all the things you need, not just housing.

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There’s an argument here that goes basically like “well we’re unhealthily obsessed with home ownership in the uk, we should be like...uh, SOME European countries who are happy to rent their whole lives” and it boils my blood because a) how do you know they’re happy? b) fine but what do I do when I’m retired and don’t have what is currently over half my income to spend on just rent and c) THE ABOVE CORRECT PERSPECTIVE. Why am I paying your fucking mortgage when I should be investing in giving me/my kids generational wealth so they can exist in the world?

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Laveria; Vaudeville Strongwoman

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Carrousel on fire in Bergamo, November 22, 2017 Photographer: Oli Freuler

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Hope all of you who wanted it to be cold again are proud of yourselves

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i am thank you

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#these fuckers are all dead!#mosquitos came for me this year

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i wish people would normalize being lost in life and just not knowing anything. not knowing what you’re passionate about, where you want to live, what you want to do, where you want to go— or what lies next. as a society, we normalized going to school, finding a passion, getting a job, finding a partner, getting married, having kids, working hard to earn an honest living. but what about when shit just doesn’t go that way? you really just don’t know. and what’s even worse is, you don’t know why you don’t know or even where to start so you feel alone. you feel as though you’re a disappointment to your family. as if you failed in life. but you haven’t, it’s okay, to not know. to be lost. you have your whole life ahead of you to figure things out. patience is a virtue. there is no time limit on life. you don’t need to rush. don’t allow society to fixate the narrative of having all your shit together at a certain age. it isn’t realistic for most. being lost is so much more normal than we think. and i just wish people would be more transparent about it.

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Once you have recognised that there are other realities, other than the one you have been familiar with, your life starts to change. I don’t care whether you got it from a joint, whether you got it from meditation, whether you got it from sex, whether you got it from trauma, whether you got it from surfing or, whatever. Whatever thing you did, that took you beyond yourself—you could have got it from religious ecstasy, in a temple or church, you could have got it in a thousand different ways—whatever it was, if you acknowledged it as real, as what you have started from, you are on the way. That is what is known as awakening.

— Ram Dass

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i refuse to believe anyone has a secure attachment style

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Transcript:

“Most of what you think you know about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is wrong.

This is the model that we all learned in psych 101 is wrong [image of Maslow’s pyramid is shown] where our basic physiological needs are at the bottom of the pyramid and achieving one’s full individual potential is at the apex.

What you may not have known is that Maslow spent 6 weeks with the Blackfoot First Nation in the summer of 1938. He learned about their worldview and the Blackfoot Tipi, appropriated and misrepresented their perspective to establish his own Maslow’s hierarchy, and then didn’t give them credit.

[Image of Maslow’s pyramid and Blackfoot tipi shown, described below]

According to the Blackfoot Tipi, self-actualization is at the bottom of the pyramid. In the middle we have belonging and community actualization, where people take care of each other and help each other with their basic needs. And at the top, we have cultural perpetuity, which is teaching each other how to live in harmony with the land and achieve community actualization through generations.

It makes so much sense, right? Taking care of oneself is not enough. We need to take care of each other and our community.

This is why we need to decolonize psychology.”

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If anyone wants to learn more about this I suggest watching the late Narcisse Blood's interviews on Maslow and the influence of Blackfoot worldviews on his work thru the Blackfoot Digital Library, they're very in-depth

Eldon Yellowhorn also discusses Maslow and Blackfoot ways of knowing but I forget which interview it's in

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I first heard of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in an advertising course I took in college many years ago. I remember looking at the pyramid an

The picture at the start of the next paper shows Maslow at the reserve, btw.

For the last few months, I’ve been wincing a bit every time I see a

I have referred to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for as long as I can remember. I learned about it as a way of looking at the complete physica

Also this is good if you're interested in a very short introduction to tipi construction and their use as homes and visual records of important knowledge:

I much prefer the Siksika model to Maslow's. It places the individual at the base of the tipi, and the existential objective in that model is literally cosmic in scale. A self-actualized individual can better contribute to the community, and a self-actualized community and culture can perpetuate itself through time. The goal is so much larger than the realization of your own self, it's about being a part of a greater whole and ensuring it lasts into perpetuity.