Please read this important piece that is so pertinent to all our lives -- whether in India, Bangladesh or Pakistan.
<<The purpose of giving this rather tortured historical background is to emphasise our masochistic desire of re-enacting colonial, imperial grandeur. The fact that the system was fundamentally designed to oppress us does not bother us. Paulo Freire, in his unbelievably dazzling Pedagogy of the Oppressed, writes, "during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or 'sub-oppressors'…. Their ideal is to be men; but for them, to be a 'man' is to be an oppressor. This is their model of humanity". >>
<<The purpose of giving this rather tortured historical background is to emphasise our masochistic desire of re-enacting colonial, imperial grandeur. The fact that the system was fundamentally designed to oppress us does not bother us. Paulo Freire, in his unbelievably dazzling Pedagogy of the Oppressed, writes, "during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or 'sub-oppressors'…. Their ideal is to be men; but for them, to be a 'man' is to be an oppressor. This is their model of humanity". >>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:47:17 -0700
Subject: The Great Leap Backwards
Subject: The Great Leap Backwards
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