On a macro level, Maslow’s analysis can help explain the political behavior we are now witnessing in America. Unfortunately, too many of us have come to expect instant gratification of our needs or simply think that we can indulge our needs without limitations.

The fact that 60 percent of Americans are overweight is a glaring example of the problem we have learning how to satisfy our basic needs and then move on to the next level of needs. Unfortunately, shelter and security are needs that also tend to become an obsession as bigger homes and more weapons are certainly not in our long term interest.

Young people tend to be obsessed with peer status, and often equate material posessions and celebrity status with success and happiness.

Respect and civility are too often viewed as “old fashioned” beliefs by young people rather than important needs that lead to self-actualzation.

I believe when we allowed a congressman to interupt President Obama’s televised address and call him a liar without having him removed from the chambers for violating the decorum, we helped ignite an explosion of disgusting antics that have and will continue to distract our nation from working on solutions to our serious problems.

As you and other Statesmen have said before, there are lines that should not be crossed. We need to reward civility and maturity and behave like the nation we once were, or we risk sinking further into the quicksand of folly.

Here’s a link to the article.
http://www.slate.com/id/2266025/entry/2266026/

It may be fear interpreted as anger in some people’s reaction to seeing for themselves many belief systems they had, based on false assumptions and metaphors, are not real, but it does not have to be that way. We do not need to be blaming others either, because we really create our own reality. We are able to think for ourselves once we realize how we have been controlled as humans all throughout history by belief systems. We can be responsible for pulling our own strings rather than having them pulled for us by those in control that use our fear of appearing stupid, of standing out, or of being uncertain AND comfortable. I call it growing up.

There is nothing wrong with equality, and fairness in society. Of honoring each human as worthy of a way to earn their living that they have some interest in doing, and their special skills and talents being recognized as useful to society. Everyone should have a place to live, clothes, food, and health care, and there is nothing wrong with believing that, or even helping to make that a reality. Single payer health care, dump the for profit health care insurance industry, is needed so employers can get busy thinking about employing people rather than how to use the loop holes to get out of providing health care.

We can put a bunch of those cubical workers we save from having to deal death by delay or denial of services for their living into their own businesses, or providing actual health care. There is a need for people to be in home support service workers for the disabled and elderly; there are jobs there although the money is not. That 30% saved that went to for profit health care insurance CEOs could go to pay for that though, and provide jobs that give back to society. People like doing job that do that, people that like that do anyways. We are becoming less selfish and more aware of other. We love efficiency and that is why the government is so not loved. We as humans are evolving, not corporations as people as that needs to change too. Can you change that corporation as people thing so We The People may have a chance politically here, please? Thank you.
Love
Bette S Baysinger, B.S.
http://www.mbtevents.com