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for Vygotsky, learning new things and seeing things differently is critical because it allows us to conceptualize new relationships and different actions: __“To perceive something in a different way means to acquire new potentials for acting with respect to it…. By generalizing the process of activity itself, I acquire the potential for new relationships with it.”__
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
“Who needs me?” is a question of character which suffers a radical challenge in modern capitalism. The system radiates indifference. It does so in terms of the outcomes of human striving, as in winner-take-all markets, where there is little connection between risk and reward. It radiates indifference in the organization of absence of trust, where there is no reason to be needed. And it does so through reengineering of institutions in which people are treated as disposable. Such practices obviously and brutally diminish the sense of mattering as a person, of being necessary to others.
The Corrosion of Character
Richard Sennett
His problem was not that of false speech (insofar as it was a deception for others) but of false consciousness (insofar as it was an illusion for oneself). This phenomenon worried him; we could label it hypercrisy (hypercrisie). __The hypocrite is the one who wears a mask and who is aware of it. The hypercrite is the one who takes himself for his mask, the one in whom the consciousness of duplicity has vanished.__ By forgetting itself, hypocrisy switches into hypercrisy, a sort of amnesic profession of faith ‘by which a man deceives himself by deceiving others, without having any intention to deceive them’.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
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