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

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    and the suffering that would likely only get worse if we just all snapped out of existence.

    Suffering for who?

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      All the shit we have dumped into the environment, the shit we would leave behind in the form of decaying factories and mines and oil rigs.

      It is our responsibility to do something about that. It is still going to exist. All the forever chemicals. We can't just opt out and walk into oblivion with a clear conscience. That is the coward's way out.

      • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        you'd need scifi technomagic to actually clean up all the microplastics and shit. I don't really understand what you expect future people to do that you'd have conscripted into cleaning up a mess made before they were born.

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          • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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            1 year ago

            diminishing returns on resources and effort put into environmental cleanup is hardly "positive improvement is impossible".

            we can clean up a lot, certainly more than capitalists ever would but

            All the shit we have dumped into the environment, the shit we would leave behind in the form of decaying factories and mines and oil rigs.

            is a ridiculous proposition even with global communism, and saddling future generations with our problems seems like a shitty thing to do to them.

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