Abraham Maslow, the humanist psychologist created a ‘hierarchy of needs’ (it is pictured below using the simply psychology websites’ icon – because it is so simple). According to it (but of course I oversimplify) needs at a higher level of the hierarchy cannot be met before those at the lower levels, and these needs are, … More If self-realisation through reading is a luxury designed for an élite, yet I still can’t live without it, isn’t it a necessity? Why I buy and read about the obscure and unurgent things in life. I read Charles Freeman’s (2023) ‘The Children of Athena’.