{"id":3889,"date":"2017-02-15T02:26:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T10:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:14:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:14:42","slug":"understanding-the-different-maslow-need-levels-for-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/understanding-the-different-maslow-need-levels-for-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the different Maslow need levels for privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we aspire to have privacy, we may do so for a number of different reasons. All these reasons are valid, but some are more urgent than others, psychologically speaking. When debating privacy issues, it\u2019s important to be aware of these psychological models and the very real consequences involved.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The psychologist Abraham Maslow<\/a> created a theory known as the Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs<\/a>, which predicts the ranked order people will adhere to in seeking out certain things in their life. Where privacy is ranked on this list is a matter of which environment you operate in, and it\u2019s crucial to recognize the differences.<\/p>\n

Generally speaking, Maslow predicted that people won\u2019t progress to addressing a higher level of needs until the current level is fully satisfied. The first level involves basic physiological needs \u2013 food, air, water, heat. Once these are satisfied, people start working on the second \u2013 safety from violence, safety in having food, air, and water for tomorrow as well; general freedom from worry. The third level is a sense of belonging to a group or tribe, the fourth is enjoying a sense of respect within that tribe, and the fifth and highest is self-development, once all other levels are satisfied.<\/p>\n

The key thing to bear in mind here is that if you\u2019re unsatisfied with safety (level two), for instance, then nothing of what you\u2019re being served on levels three, four, and five really matters. If you don\u2019t have your basic physical needs like food, water, or even oxygen met (level one), then no other needs are taken into account at that point. If you\u2019re starving, you\u2019re not going to be concerned with respect in your group.<\/p>

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Maslow\u2019s Hierarchy of Human Needs. (Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Here\u2019s the key realization that people want privacy for vastly different reasons. This is really common sense, but to have a model<\/em> for it like this helps to make the concepts tangible.<\/p>\n

Most of us who debate the merits of privacy do so for self-development reasons. We think it\u2019s a better society where people have privacy, and for good reasons \u2013 very<\/em> good reasons: all societies where privacy is or has been absent (North Korea, East Germany) have generally been\u2026 shall we call them low-satisfaction societies<\/em>. But the key is that we\u2019re still debating from an internal motivation of self-development<\/em> (in this case, it makes no difference whether we\u2019re seeking to develop ourselves or our society in general).<\/p>\n

Those of us who talk at conferences about privacy and who write about it on blogs like this generally don\u2019t talk about privacy because of physical safety concerns. Nor do we do so for a sense of belonging. You could argue that people who talk and write about privacy from the safety and comfort of an office or a caf\u00e9 do so competing for respect in their group or tribe (level four), but that\u2019s still a follow-on effect from the meritocracy development on level five.<\/p>\n

Now, compare this who people who get mortar shells flying toward their location the second it is revealed.<\/strong> There are stories of reporters in rebel zones who have wanted to use a satellite phone to contact the outside world for whatever reason, and where the local commander led them to a deserted area, handed them a satphone and started the clock. After eight minutes of having the phone active, the commander would say \u201cthat\u2019s enough\u201d, terminate the call, turn off the phone and rapidly walk away from the location with the reporter. About four minutes after that, explosive ordnance would start raining down and killing anything within a football field area of the precise location of where the phone call was made. Somebody in this situation also wants privacy, but for completely different reasons: basic, actual, physical safety \u2013 what the model says is level two<\/em> on the Maslow scale.<\/p>\n

The important thing to realize here is that somebody arguing privacy from level five (self-development) will have their actions affected by not offending their previously-met needs on levels three and four (belonging, respect, and recognition). Somebody arguing privacy from level two (physical safety) will have no such concerns whatsoever.<\/strong> This level-five mechanism would manifest as a respect for contemporary taboos when arguing on conferences and columns, even<\/em> when those taboos get in the way of actual developments in privacy.<\/p>\n

(There are exceptions to the respect for taboos. I\u2019ve frequently taken flak for disrespecting them \u2013 some of them. Maybe I\u2019m respecting other ones subconsciously.)<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a conflict of interest<\/em> here that\u2019s based on how we\u2019re psychologically wired at the physical level: somebody arguing for privacy from a level-five standpoint will not do so in a way that jeopardizes the needs met at lower levels.<\/p>\n

There are also other noteworthy political reasons people will aspire and demand privacy. Most would do it from a human rights or civil liberties standpoint. However, if you\u2019re looking at many governments in Asia, they could not care less about human rights as a Western concept \u2013 but they do want strong privacy, because it enables whistleblowing of corruption<\/em> in their government. Thus, they want it from a level three<\/em> standpoint \u2013 the ability to report corruption without repercussions from your peers, essentially.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a saying here: politics is the art of making people agree with you, but for their own reasons.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, you could argue that you\u2019re learning to use privacy properly as a hobby because you see a day where you might really need it, the way mass surveillance is developing and governments are cracking down on liberty. This would be a very valid argument. This would not be entirely unlike learning to quickly fight house fires as a form of self-development (level five), until the night you wake up from your smoke alarm and put your skills to use (level one).<\/strong> Or hoard some food as a form of self-development where people ridicule you as a tinfoil-hat doomsday prepper, until that day an ordinary snowstorm shuts down all food deliveries and you just go out to your bunker and causally grab some tasty freeze-dried chow, while others scramble for bread and rice where they can get it. Something that\u2019s on level five today may be on a lower level tomorrow. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s with this insight that a lot of us are arguing for privacy, which remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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