ciroccoj | I've been told it makes sense the fourth time you read it... (Reply)

The desire for conquest (or rather the necessity of conquest) is at all times present in antidialogical action. To this end the oppressors atttempt to destroy in the oppressed their quality as "considerers" of the world. Since the oppressors cannot totally achieve this destruction, they must mythicize the world. In order to present for the consideration of the oppressed and subjugated a world of deceit designed to increase their alienation and passivity, the oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given - something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed

I have to read 58 pages of this by tomorrow. I... want to go lie down.