Human 'motivations'
Oct. 26th, 2025 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seeyatOne of the things I find fascinating about Marshall Rosenberg's adaptation of Max-Neef's and Maslow's needs awareness is that once we develop a fully informed and conscious understanding of human needs, we also know all core human motivations.
That means we know where people are coming from. It means we can identify people's intentions in a way. I think dominant people may feel threatened by that.
Dominant people tend to work within obscurity. They rely on a certain level of ignorance in the people they command or dominate.
When we have a full consciousness of base human needs, it serves to let us know more about ourselves and also the effect of people's decisions on us along with the communities and environments around us. It's a framework of consciousness... something much deeper than traditional education systems in the US operate on.
That means we know where people are coming from. It means we can identify people's intentions in a way. I think dominant people may feel threatened by that.
Dominant people tend to work within obscurity. They rely on a certain level of ignorance in the people they command or dominate.
When we have a full consciousness of base human needs, it serves to let us know more about ourselves and also the effect of people's decisions on us along with the communities and environments around us. It's a framework of consciousness... something much deeper than traditional education systems in the US operate on.
