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

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    8 months ago

    They do not want revolutions or positive change that improves society even somewhat.

    Its a selection bias. Folks that were more militant and active got pruned from the system. Big sub mods hate activists. Admins hate activist mods. The end result is a site that's little more than a headline news feed with ForwardsFromGrandma tier comments, because anyone outside of that mold gets censored, kicked, or sitewide banned.