one axis · three ladders · aligned only at the poles

The shared spine,
not the forced grid

Three unrelated traditions — Maslow's needs, Gilligan's care, the Heian uta — each climb from the self to beyond the self. That single vector is real, because three fields hit it independently. The middles don't correspond — they're different kinds of hierarchy — so this is a spine they're all threaded on, not a mesh. Tap a node. Then hit forced grid and watch the mesh fail.

SELF → GROUP · the shared teleological axis
hover or tap a rung — each sits where it falls on the self→group axis, by its own logic

What's true here

keep · the convergence is realAll three top out at the same place — the self opening to the group. Maslow's late revision puts self-transcendence (own needs set aside, service to others) above self-actualization; Gilligan's Level 3 is integrated care for self and others; the uta carries one private kokoro out into a civilization's shared sensibility. Three fields, same summit — that's a finding, not a coincidence of shape.
cut · the grid is forcedThe ladders are different kinds of hierarchy: Maslow is priority (what you need first), Gilligan is moral maturation, the uta is composition (parts → whole). They share the two poles and nothing in between. A full mesh would have to fake most of its cells — which is exactly what the toggle shows.
cut · neither ladder is bedrockMaslow's hierarchy is empirically contested and reflects Western individualist assumptions; the care/justice split is real but its correlation with sex is the part its founders walked back (a corpus-partition fact, not an essence). Hang things on the spine lightly.
SELF → GROUP · the one axis that genuinely aligns three hierarchies
self (survival · money · the private heart) → group (transcendence · integrated care · the shared corpus)
keep the spine · drop the grid · the convergence is the find, the mesh is the trap