{"id":4056,"date":"2022-05-22T01:41:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T01:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4056"},"modified":"2022-05-22T01:41:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T01:41:38","slug":"deconstruction-of-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/05\/deconstruction-of-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Deconstruction of hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cThe basic needs (for life, for safety and security, for belongingness and affection, for respect and self-respect, and for self-actualization), the basic human emotions and the basic human capacities are on their face either neutral, pre-moral or positively \u201cgood.\u201d Destructiveness, sadism, cruelty, malice, etc., seem so far not intrinsic but rather they seem to be violent reactions <strong>against<\/strong> frustration of our intrinsic needs, emotions and capacities.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Abraham Maslow, in Toward a Psychology of Being (\u2018happened to be reading it these days)<\/p>\n<p>How do we create a world where people don\u2019t have violent reactions against frustration? By focusing on eliminating said frustration.<\/p>\n<p>The frustration comes down to: these people get that, and I don\u2019t. <\/p>\n<p>This is easy to solve: give enough to everyone so that everyone stays away from frustration.<\/p>\n<p>Do I believe that a UBI system and sustainable, healthy housing would have avoided the Buffalo shooting? Yes, and countless, constant and invisible other violence would be eliminated too.<\/p>\n<p>When intrinsic needs, emotions and capacities are met, hate doesn\u2019t form, doesn\u2019t blossom. <\/p>\n<p>We supremely need that. And we can afford it, that\u2019s without saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe basic needs (for life, for safety and security, for belongingness and affection, for respect and self-respect, and for self-actualization), the basic human emotions and the basic human capacities are on their face either neutral, pre-moral or positively \u201cgood.\u201d Destructiveness, sadism, cruelty, malice, etc., seem so far not intrinsic but rather they seem to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}