Our converts, on the other hand, truly desire to transform the unjust order; but because of their background they believe that they must be the execu… - Paulo Freire

Money is the measure of all things, and profit the primary goal. For the oppressors, what is worthwhile is to have more—always more—even at the cost of the oppressed having less or having nothing. For them, to be is to have.

The participants begin to realize that if their analysis of the situation goes any deeper they will either have to divest themselves of their myths, or reaffirm them. Divesting themselves of and renouncing their myths represents, at that moment, an act of self-violence. On the other hand, to reaffirm those myths is to reveal themselves.

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.