Oppressors mythicize the world to make it seem fixed and given rather than changeable.

Evidence

To this end the oppressors attempt to destroy in the oppressed their quality as “considerers” of the world. Since the oppressors cannot totally achieve this destruction, they must mythicize the world. In order to present for the consideration of the oppressed and subjugated a world of deceit designed to increase their alienation and passivity, the oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given—something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 451

Categorization

• DEFINE: The ‘world as fixed entity’ is the fate-versus-problem contrast — the target of problem-posing education.