ing, something animate into something inanimate, since plete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life — freedom.[12]РSadistic love is a perverted love — a love of death, not of life. One of the characteristics of the oppressor consciousness and its necrophilic view of the world is thus sadism. As the oppressor consciousness, in order to dominate, tries to deter the drive to search, the restlessness, and the creative power which characterize life, it kills life. More and more, the oppressors are using science and technology as unquestionably powerful instruments for their purpose: the maintenance of the oppressive order through manipulation and repression.[13]The oppressed, as objects, as “things,” have no purposes except those their oppressors prescribe for them.