How could Maslow write about self-actualization when he himself never self-actualized?

In fact, wasn’t his entire philosophy benchmarked against the psychotic mother he despised? Didn’t his own insecurities shape his views on why a ‘biological elite’ should be given power?

“The only way I can see out of this dilemma in any future, one-world civilization is for the biological superiors (alphas or aggridants) to become a kind of priestly class to which is given less monetary reward and fewer privileges or luxuries than the average members of the overall population. The picture I have here is of the leaders of civilization — the sages, teachers, pioneers, and creators — com posing something like the Grey Eminence figures of the past, like monks clad in the simplest garments and perhaps vowing to lead selfless lives of poverty.”

If that’s his criteria for selecting “whole, healthy men” as having self-actualized, who was he to tell us what’s correct and what isn’t?

All Maslow did was reinforce the idea that work should be a temple of self-actualization (i.e. for the market to replace the church (religion).

Was he ever aware of how the system molds behaviors? https://bit.ly/3uPpkvC