New Discourses

Reviewer pedrohgmuniz was maybe brainwashed by freirean education. James Lindsay’s comments here are very insightful and totally supported by what Freire published and said. His ultimate goal was the preparation of the masses for the overthrow of capitalism through what he called cultural action. Lindsay gets several points what most people (who read Freire) seem to miss, notably that decodification is one of the key moments when indoctrination occurs. And although he doesn’t state this categorically, he understands that the transformation of the educator into a mediator is also another key trick in Freire’s indoctrination playbook. By not “depositing” (not mentioned but implied in the podcast. see “banking concept of education”) but helping create knowledge, the mediator has the opening and the tools to direct the student towards the mediator’s own conclusions and viewpoints (this mentioned in the podcast).

Conspiracy theory nonsense. I continued listening to it just for the experience of listening to this kind of content, which is something I don’t usually do. It was an ep on Paulo Freire. I wanted to know how the guy understood Freire, but in the end he just goes on in circles about how Marxism is a religion that is dominating the world. He repeats that so many times in different ways, it gets boring.