"Submerged in reality, the oppressed cannot perceive clearly
the "order " which serves the interests of the oppressors
whose image they have internalized. Chafing under the restrictions of this
order, they often manifest a type of horizontal violence, striking out at their
own comrades for the pettiest reasons.
When we are blind, we
stumble. When we are blind we do not see the possibilities. When we are blinded
by the needs of the moment we do not see the options to rise above the system
that keeps us under the powers that be. When we are blind we do not see the
choices we can make.
Freire,
who suggests that the oppressed must free themselves from oppression,
that it cannot be done for them, points out, "Only
as they discover themselves to be hosts of the oppressor can they contribute to
the midwifery of their liberating pedagogy."
My hope is that we are awakening, opening our
eyes to begin to see how we are all connected, seeing the ways we can become
the midwives to liberate ourselves and our world from a system that has gone
out of control-- that is controlled by oppressors who don't even want us to be aware that we are oppressed.
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
Check out his platform at RobKall.com
He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
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