Problem-posing education does not and cannot serve the interests of the oppressor. No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in “changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them”; for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation, the more easily they can be dominated.

Implicit in the banking concept [of education] is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others…In this view, the person is not a conscious being (corpo consciente); he or she is rather the possessor of a consciousness: an empty “mind” passively open to the reception of deposits of reality from the world outside.

https://envs.ucsc.edu/internships/internship-readings/freire-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed.pdf

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    They do, they do.

    No wonder so many of them want to escape into some ostensibly-better "simulation" promised by some nerd-rapture in the future and/or see the lived reality around them as some "simulation" already as an excuse to dehumanize other people and living things as "NPCs."

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Not as part of anti-natalism as a decreed intent, no, but the ideological overlap (and posting history) between one ideology and the other belief system was pretty significant for a few years on Reddit. Both were popular and popular things with similar converging interests with users posting in communities related to both.

        • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          yeah I've never once came accross anyone who believed both things though so I don't think that is part of it

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            8 months ago

            I've met and come across people believing in both things. Not seeing any vast gap of impossibility here.

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                8 months ago

                ok

                I'm assuming you're that invested in believing that lived life is a simulation or in antinatalism to make this your personal "nuh uh" crusade.