Those privileged by a limit-situation actively resist its transformation.

Evidence

In sum, limit-situations imply the existence of persons who are directly or indirectly served by these situations, and of those who are negated and curbed by them. Once the latter come to perceive these situations as the frontier between being and being more human, rather than the frontier between being and nothingness, they begin to direct their increasingly critical actions towards achieving the untested feasibility implicit in that perception. On the other hand, those who are served by the present limit-situation regard the untested feasibility as a threatening limit-situation which must not be allowed to materialize, and act to maintain the status quo. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 295

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the key concept ‘untested feasibility’ — the achievable alternative beyond the limit-situation — and its reverse reading by those who benefit from the status quo.