of the Tree of Life
visualisation/paradigm
is to discover
by arduous bumbling
new geometric metaphors
for literary/psychological nuances
and this one's a beaut
like any list of motives
Maslow's
is necessarily both
heterogeneous
and incomplete
so it's a useful exercise
to ask, for each proposed motive
on the Tree of Life
which branches
at which moments
are dominated by that motive
and explore coloring schemes
to capture this
(right this moment
what motives
color those immediately around you?)
eg hunger
universally dominates cyclically
with famine at one
frequency extreme
and an IV drip
at the other
or comfort
making continual small demands
or sex
usually triggered by proximity
of an interfertile couple
or safety
never recapturing the primal womb
but well-cushioned by wealth
or esteem
vaguely discontent
with anonymous alienation
or stimulation
antsy from too much regularity
and when the patterns of dominance
for each of these
and 100 more
have been visualised and compared
(eg how are
conflicting motives
resolved?)
a truly universal model
of motivation
becomes more plausible
.
