This from Paolo Friere kind of jumped out at me...
'When their efforts to act responsibly are frustrated... people suffer...
But the inability to act which causes people's anguish also causes them to reject their impotence, by attempting "...to restore [their] capacity to act.
'When their efforts to act responsibly are frustrated... people suffer...
But the inability to act which causes people's anguish also causes them to reject their impotence, by attempting "...to restore [their] capacity to act.
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One way is to submit to and identify with a person or group having power. By this symbolic participation in another persons life, [men have] the illusion of acting, when in reality [they] only submit to and become part of those who act."
The rebellion they express ... is motivated by that desire to act effectively.'