Yes, very elitist and ‘looking down your nose’ at the peons kind of stuff...I remember hearing this stuff non-stop when I went to college in the early 80s for my teaching degree, and even though I didn’t know then what I know now, I knew enough to stop and say, “Huh?!” when I heard it preached like the gospel. :-(
Well even in college, the pillar of Liberalism, my professors taught Maslow as a has-been. He’s been replaced by other more “progressive” ideologues preaching “community approach” and “love triumphs all” mentalities. I never understood how they could say that basic needs would be met through love and affection when you have people like Andrea Yates who “loved” her children and thought it better they be dead.
*sigh* The mental disease that is Liberalism continues its march into the hearts and minds of the ignorant.