Atlas City Project

I was recalling Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs the other day and was trying to figure out if it was still accurate in today's society. For those not familiar, Abraham Maslow was psychologist in the 40's that studied the brightest of the population and the mentally ill. He created this chart to explain levels of importance to people depending on their mentality and life stages.



I was thinking along the same lines, but throughout the history of humanity and came up with something to kind of sum up our social evolution.

Stage 1- Survive: the need to eat, sleep and reproduce ruled all of humanity. Of course, you may not be able to call it humanity at this point in time. Our ancestors were primitive and most likely very aggressive. All that mattered was where their next meal came from and the need to reproduce.

Stage 2- Build to Sustain: shelter became more then nomadic caves. We began building homes, tools and other things to last and to trade with. The barter system was mostly in control of this social time period, and protection of ones property became the name of the game.

Stage 3- Build to Advance: in this time period building machines, medicines and many sorts of technological advancements came out daily. This is the stage we still live in. This is the stage that is ruled by holding others back. By laws and patents. By scarcity and limitations. This is the stage that is soon to end.

Stage 4- Live to Evolve: to transcend mentally to a new realm of thinking and living. This is the peaceful social order that is often seen in science fiction futuristic societies, but is unlikely to be seen outside a Buddhist temple in the current world. Where ideas and property are shared freely. Where fear of loss or personal harm does not rule our decisions and lead the the ever-winding downward spiral that is current society.

This is a brief summation of the idea that I had. Survive, Build, Advance, Evolve. We can only go up, or revert back to our more primitive past. Is our society strong enough? No. But are people strong enough? We, here, have this dream. We show that a person's dream is strong enough, but we can still only hope our actions are as strong as our dreams?

I may be a dreamer, but I am a blind man dreaming. I hope generations to come will dream that of those who can see. To dream in shape and color.

that pyramid seems pretty accurate to me, for i cannot imagine a higher rung of the ladder existing without the previous ones before it.

now, this does point to what we have to ensure in order to have our city functioning properly.

we will need to be at the highest level of that pyramid for atlas city to work, so all the other pieces must be filled so to speak.

thats the old hierarchy of needs. the new hierarchy of needs is physical, social, emotional, mental, and transcendent needs and this maps to the brodmann brain areas.

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General
1.Psychology is the study of the human mind. Most specifically the psyche, most generally All of human behavior.
2. The human Brain is composed of between 40 and 70 different organs, depending upon
how you define differences. These are called brodmanns brain areas. Each brain area
is responsible for specific types of brain processes and mental functions.
3. The human mind has four main operational conditions, they are beta brainwave states, alpha brainwave states, delta brainwave states, and theta brainwave states. Each of these might be further subdivided into waking or sleeping states of consciousness.
4. Beta brainwave states are those in which the dominant area of the brain is the frontal lobes. Alpha brainwave states are those in which the dominant area of the brain is the Mammalian brain or Occipital lobes, and Delta brainwaves states are those where the brain is dominated by the Reptilian Brain or brain stem. Theta brain wave states are
a second waking condition in which the body is healed, or, in which the normal flow of
dominance from top of brain to bottom of brain is reversed, and the bottom of the brain
loads information into the top, which is then experienced as dreams.
5. We have instincts which compel us to seek out gratification of our needs. All behavior is motivated by a conscious or unconscious belief that said behavior will get some need met.
6. Psychology involves first an instinct, which compels a thought process, and then a planning or strategizing session in which the individual uses their maps of reality and belief systems as well as learned knowledge and social conditioning to arrive at an end
product of doing something to get what you want. Schema are maps of reality which we
use as tools to meet our needs .Social Conditioning and personal experience and learning
play vital roles in helping the mind to think up tactics to meet needs.
7. Criminal behavior is behavior which that person believes will get their needs met. Punishment was well demonstrated to have little or no effect on learning curve. What is required for a person to change their behavior is a functional tactic that does work to get their needs met.
8. Groupthink is a social phenomenon of psychology where a group uses false
consensus process to end up behaving stupidly as a group. Groupthink occurs when
people cave into social pressures, where propaganda replaces knowledge or facts, and where group identity is created out of participation in group delusions, lies, codependency, or criminality. Groupthink is how a mob drifts to the lowest common denominator, and why a mob is potentially vicious, evil, and sociopathic. Group
authority ameliorates and dissolves personal conscience, and by having their emotions
manipulated and their social identity threatened, people give up their own better judgment and accept the judgment of the most psychopathic member of the group.
9. Pack Psychology is the psychology exhibited primarily by mammals in small groups
in which 3 primary roles are assumed by social participants. The roles are Alpha- the leader, Beta- the followers, and Delta- the orbiters. In human society that translates in a super-simplified way into bullies, cliques, and nerds.
10. Problem solving psychology must contend against groupthink and pack psychology in the arena of opinion. Problem solving psychology is emotionally neutral and uses the mind and logic to look at all aspects of a problem and try to come up with a viable problem solving process. Problem solving psychology is the worst enemy of both
Rightist and Leftist Dogmatists. True problem solving psychology comes from the place of the radical middle. It takes in all sides and all viewpoints, and it gives each its fair dues
And attention in creating a problem solving process that works from the big picture down through into the nano details.


Psychology;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology
psychology.about.com/
www.psychology.org/
psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-psychlgy.html
www.socialpsychology.org/

Brodmanns brain areas and etc;
www.umich.edu/~cogneuro/jpg/Brodmann.html
spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/talks/brodmann/brodmann.html
www.whale.to/b/brain.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodmann_area
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_in_the_human_brain
thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/capsules/outil_jaune05.html
www.csuchico.edu/~pmccaff/syllabi/CMSD%20320/362unit4.html
faculty.washington.edu/chudler/qa2.html

brainwaves;
www.brainwaves.com/brain.html
pages.prodigy.net/unohu/brainwaves.htm
brain.web-us.com/brainwavesfunction.htm
www.crossroadsinstitute.org/eeg.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwaves


There are Five main need groups. They are;
Physical, Social, Emotional, Mental, and Spiritual or Transpersonal.

Each of those need groups is composed of several needs. Every problem we face is a problem because it obstructs our ability to meet
peoples needs.

Maslows Hierarchy of needs has been modernly replaced by a simpler model which also appears to more directly model instinct.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs


www.abraham-maslow.com/m_motivation/Hierarchy_of_Needs.asp

www.envisionsoftware.com/articles/Maslows_Needs_Hierarchy.html

www.drjudithguedalia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=170

www.dividingline.com/private/Philosophy/Philosophers/Maslow/Abraham_Maslow_Hierarchy_of_Human_Needs.shtml

SOCIOLOGY General
1. Sociology is the study of groups of people, how they interact, how they create and hold group structures and group identities, how they band together, how they deal with conflicts, and everything that whole groups of people do.
2. Sociology studies social units such as families, packs, tribes, villages, cities, hives, herds, and mobs.
3. The precarious balance of true democracy is that society must balance social welfare and social support and services against the counterweight of free enterprise. If the balance falls off towards social welfare, the society falls into entropy as the government destroys
private enterprise to fund social services. The result is socialism, which always decays into its own form of totalitarianism. If the balance falls off the other way, then free enterprise results in a plutocracy and then an oligarchy followed by mild oligarchic mercantilist fascism and then a severe oligarchic fascism. Socialism is not a whole goal
or endpoint we wish to arrive at, but the system "as is" is out of balance resulting in a corporate oligarchy. The only way to fix this is to return the power back to the people and
restore a genuine democracy.
4. Sociology understands that social phenomenon are very complicated, and that social problems have many underlying contributing causes for any given effect. Oversimplification, blaming, black and white thinking, and false dilemmas do not help to solve problems in a real way.
5. People are conditioned to behave by their social environment. Personal responsibility is important, but where statistics show a trend in negative or antisocial behaviors, Society
as a whole must shoulder some part of the blame and work to improve conditions socially
just as it works to rehabilitate the criminal, so should it seek to rehabilitate itself.
6. People have several layers of personal space, a psychological truth which is mostly subliminal, but which nonetheless governs almost all social interactions. People should learn to consciously understand personal space to cut down on miscommunication and stress due to problems handling personal space issues.
7. The best way to run a democratic system is by using consensus process to the point of
a clear and overwhelming (two thirds) majority. Consensus process means talking about and working out issues and differences to arrive at a mutually beneficial compromise much of the time.
8. The best guardian of the balance between socialism and free enterprise is intellectual meritocracy. A functional society should be free of propaganda, should not have anti-intellectualism, and should consider ideas on their rational merit, not according to what
others have to say or social pressures, but by means of a reproducible rational problem
solving application of intelligence and knowledge.


Sociology Introduction;
www.thomsonedu.com/thomsonedu/discipline.do?disciplinenumber=14
www.polity.co.uk/sociology/sociology_txtbks.asp
highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/007240535x/student_view0/chapter1/chapter_summary.html
www.sdsmt.edu/online-courses/is/soc100/Intro.htm
www.sdsmt.edu/online-courses/is/soc100/course.html
www2.wwnorton.com/college/soc/giddens5/
www.camden.rutgers.edu/~wood/207syl.htm
core.ecu.edu/soci/juskaa/SOCI2110/soci1.htm

Types of Government;
stutzfamily.com/mrstutz/WorldAffairs/typesofgovt.html
news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/world/united_nations/types_of_government/newsid_2151000/2151570.stm
home.earthlink.net/~kingsidebishop/id2.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_of_government
www.twyman-whitney.com/americancitizen/foundations/types_of_government.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forms_of_government

Social Conditioning;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_conditioning
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning
answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070406120833AAzVVlZ
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_learning_theory
www.dailyom.com/articles/2006/4952.html
changingminds.org/techniques/conversion/social_psychological_conditioning.htm
www.winthrop.edu/english/nosearch/core/social.htm

Pavlov;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Pavlov
www.psyhist.com/conditioning.html
www.sntp.net/behaviorism/pavlov.htm
users.cwnet.com/phelps/pavlov.htm
forerunner.com/forerunner/X0497_DeMar_-_Behaviorism.html
tip.psychology.org/skinner.html
www.brembs.net/operant/
psychology.about.com/od/behavioralpsychology/a/introopcond.htm

As a nursing student, I've read that almost all nurses use Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to meet their patient needs so we could use it for our own or make a hierarchy of needs based on Maslow's and others.