After World War II, during the era of the Cold War, critical theorists viewed the world as divided between two inherently oppressive models of social development.
It is through Nietzsche that Kambalu develops the art concept of the Holy Ball - an ordinary football, or sometimes a Malawian rag football, stuck over with pages from the Bible - which he associates with sun worship and freedom from oppressive models of thought and being.
Doing good works within oppressive models is far easier than leaning into the realities of a life lived here and now within the visionary community Jesus called the kingdom of God.
"It's this oppressive Christian model that says 'Pick a person that's going to be everything to you, they have to be perfect, then get a house, and have kids, and then you'll be happy and whole.' " "There are many heterosexuals who feel the same way," he added.
Roof apparently looked to this racially oppressive society as a model for a new America.
During that Copenhagen spring, Struensee, a student of the French Enlightenment, introduced reforms by means of which he hoped to turn oppressive, poverty-ridden Denmark into a model of liberté, egalité et fraternité.
The lockdown model of education with oppressive rules and blindly inflexible enforcement is a failure.
So nurses are taught the medical management of diseases and to follow physicians' orders without questioning; this educational model was not only oppressive, it silenced its participants and diminished their self-confidence.
On the second night, as we walked home after Juan Atkin's Model 500 robofunk roadshow, ten oppressive minutes in Joy Orbison, and four hours of Ben Klock into Marcel Dettmann, we encountered a young Australian guy.
The proposed model involves the concepts of: anti-oppressive theory; social justice; dialogue; social sustainability; the social precautionary principle, and; an ethic of love.
