Oppression and fear of freedom
In our insane civilisation the use of shenanigans and scams, double standards, opportunism and other forms of trickery and deceit quickly change from being sus pect to being valued in order to survive. We even go as far as to adjust our ethics and personality according to the situation. With all such practices, we lose our true colours. Who is still publicly sincere and authentic?
On a personal level, we see many people adopt the same morals and manners as those who actually exploit and oppress them, even if they initially resisted the situation. This is extremely advantageous for the arrogant bosses at the top of the pyramid. They can’t manage without a compliant middle management that directs the lower-ranking workers for them. Eventually, the workers themselves are also indoctrinated and assimilated into that culture to such an extent that they adopt the same mentality and behaviour. It’s the well known combination of sucking up to the boss, while simultaneously treating your subordinates with disdain (or ‘brown-nosing’ and ‘shit flows downhill’, as the Americans say). On a higher, meta-level as the priests of technology determine our lives and take away our freedoms, we simultaneously become dependent and afraid of freedom, autonomy and responsibility.
Thus freedom is not offered as a gift. It must be constantly pursued and reclaimed. But for that, we must first learn to see and learn to realise that the oppressors cannot exist without the consent of the oppressed [40]. The fear of freedom itself will have to be conquered. To break free from the arrogance that is destroying this world, it is imperative that we pursue that freedom. Humility and respect should be the basis of our relationship with each other and with the living world, where mankind doesn’t oppress the natural world.
A very important book to read in this current context is this:
Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. 1967.
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Wikipedia
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Portuguese: Pedagogia do Oprimido) is a book by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, written in Portuguese between 1967 and 1968, but published first in Spanish in 1968. An English translation was published in 1970, with the Portuguese original being published in 1972 in Portugal, and then again in Brazil in 1974. The book is considered one of the foundational texts of critical pedagogy, and proposes a pedagogy with a new relationship between teacher, student, and society.
Dedicated to the oppressed and based on his own experience helping Brazilian adults to read and write, Freire includes a detailed Marxist class analysis in his exploration of the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. In the book, Freire calls traditional pedagogy the "banking model of education" because it treats the student as an empty vessel to be filled with knowledge, like a piggy bank. He argues that pedagogy should instead treat the learner as a co-creator of knowledge.[1]
As of 2000, the book had sold over 750,000 copies worldwide.[1]: 9 It is the third most cited book in social science.[2]
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(The section above was taken from:
CRASH COURSE - On Your Future in the Anthropocene by Otis Scops)
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