For Canadian Zita Dube-Lockhart, whose 12-year-old child receives gender-affirming care, the campaign ahead of Monday's election has avoided issues that matter to her, including LGBTQ rights.
I recall in the past Western nations would hold their social progress over emerging nations with an air of arrogance. But anyone who has been alive long enough understands that social progress is a function of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. When basic needs become more challenging to secure (as they have been in Canada and the US with affordability crises), social progress unfortunately takes the back burner.
Its often less about the people and more about the circumstance, though religion can be an important modifier.
Did you know that Maslow’s hierarchy of needs was actually based off of the Blackfoot indigenous culture, but he essentially flipped the ‘pyramid’ on its head? Originally, it was meant to be more of a cyclical view (where you take care of society, society takes care of you, all needs are met). He was actually very inspired by this view, but unfortunately adapted it to fit more into the individualist views of the colonizers that continue to exist in most of the western world today. He also never actually put his theories into the pyramid shape we know them to be.
Really interesting to read up on, if you’re into that sort of thing. There’s a few different articles on it, but I thought this one explained it pretty well.
I recall in the past Western nations would hold their social progress over emerging nations with an air of arrogance. But anyone who has been alive long enough understands that social progress is a function of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. When basic needs become more challenging to secure (as they have been in Canada and the US with affordability crises), social progress unfortunately takes the back burner.
Its often less about the people and more about the circumstance, though religion can be an important modifier.
Did you know that Maslow’s hierarchy of needs was actually based off of the Blackfoot indigenous culture, but he essentially flipped the ‘pyramid’ on its head? Originally, it was meant to be more of a cyclical view (where you take care of society, society takes care of you, all needs are met). He was actually very inspired by this view, but unfortunately adapted it to fit more into the individualist views of the colonizers that continue to exist in most of the western world today. He also never actually put his theories into the pyramid shape we know them to be.
Really interesting to read up on, if you’re into that sort of thing. There’s a few different articles on it, but I thought this one explained it pretty well.