Some additional context is needed for such an evocative phrase. Maybe it was close in meaning to the backronym WIERD (Western Industrial Educated Rich Democrati

Some additional context is needed for such an evocative phrase. Maybe it was close in meaning to the backronym WIERD (Western Industrial Educated Rich Democratic). Maslow studied what he called the master race of people such as Albert Einstein, Jane Addams, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass rather than mentally ill or neurotic people, writing that "the study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy." Maslow studied the healthiest 1% of the college student population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs#Methodology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs#Me... https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/joseph-henrich-explores-weird-societies/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/joseph-henric...