New Book: Rejecting the Ideology of Progress
Colin Todhunter
‘The Agrarian Imagination: Development and the Art of the Impossible’ (2025), published by The Critical Globalisation Collective (UK & India), is available on Figshare. All the author’s work is released under an open access framework and is freely available for non-commercial use.
The open access book The Agrarian Imagination Development and the Art of the Impossible is a critique of the dominant global economic and political model often termed ‘development’ and based on a warped notion of ‘progress’. In it, through 16 essays, it is argued that this system, driven by the needs of private (finance) capital, leads to widespread injustice, war and ecological destruction.
The book uses real-world examples to expose the enduring human cost of top-down policies, citing the devastating Bhopal disaster and the Green Revolution as concrete proof of the system’s violence and negligence.
The narrative proposes the Agrarian Imagination as a robust ethical and philosophical framework for rethinking human progress. This concept goes far beyond mere farming, advocating for a way of life rooted in soil, community permanence and the dignity of labour over endless consumption and centralised control. In the urban context, the book argues that the city is not a purely post-agrarian space by highlighting how communities, informal economies and enduring networks remain vital in the face of neoliberal capitalism, commodification and consumerism.
The text explores the structural reasons an alternative vision is perpetually sidelined, especially in its analysis of late-stage capitalism, which details how powerful forces and the state work together to enclose common resources and suppress local self-sufficiency, revealing the non-negotiable extractive logic of the current economic system.
While some might say this analysis is nothing new, its uniqueness stems from the cross-disciplinary intellectual framing. Its originality lies in bringing together agrarian political critique with literary and philosophical inquiry in a way that reframes development as an ethical rather than merely economic question.
Most strikingly, the text draws a parallel to Fyodor Dostoevsky, specifically the figure of Underground Man. This literary reference is used to define The Art of the Impossible, which is not a call for a utopian retreat but an act of moral and intellectual resistance.
Much like Underground Man, who refuses to surrender his conscience despite the world’s failings, the Agrarian Imagination refuses to abandon the ideals of justice and ecological harmony even when powerful global structures deem them unattainable or politically naïve. This refusal to surrender the ethical ideal is presented as a vital foundation for preserving the possibility of a better future.
Furthermore, the collection uniquely synthesises global and local traditions weaving together the moral anti-industrialism of Mahatma Gandhi from the Global South with the ethical land-stewardship of US writer Wendell Berry from the West. This broad approach prevents the critique from being dismissed as merely regional or nostalgic and positions the struggle for food sovereignty and decentralised life as a universal movement.
By integrating social science with literary and philosophical enquiry, the book provides a human-centred perspective on global crisis and may be of interest to anyone sceptical of the conventional wisdom surrounding ‘modernity’, ‘growth’ and ‘globalisation’, offering a coherent ethical language for challenging the established myths of industrial progress.
Colin Todhunter specialises in food, agriculture and development and is a research associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization in Montreal. His open access books on the global food system can be accessed via Figshare (no sign in or sign up required).
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Now Indian government scientists are releasing gene editted crops free of cost.
antonym pls try to find some good news pls.
MMmm, to me, this Ideology of Progress stuff is little more than a secular form of the people-of-faith’s “pie in the sky” pipe dream. Me, I’d rather work/fight hard now for Ham where I am today!
Years ago, somebody called this sort of thing “the opium of the people” when what they needed was a hammer and sickle.
‘Much like Underground Man, who refuses to surrender his conscience despite the world’s failings”
And what a trial that is!
To be deemed ‘maladjusted’ an outlier a non conformists a contrarian. Or just plain ungrateful. For what exactly? For wanting better for all?! How sick I must be. To stop unnecessary suffering. To utilise our skills to create an actual civilisation not based on exploitation. It’s not Utopia I seek. As it is a dream. It’s realising our differences and our common needs.
Lets not dirty the word “progress”; it is fine for most fields, expect the greed of the belly and below, cancer or rigid memes that want to control all as carbon copy robots.
The CCP’s China had a lot of bad progress and look where the plebs are now: worse off than ‘1984’.
Its is very very difficult to find any dirty suppressed plebs in China these days.
Those ‘Chinese plebs worse off‘ seems to be in US no?
“Much like Underground Man, who refuses to surrender his conscience despite the world’s failings”
The story of Job has the refusal to surrender conscience to gaslighting that was implicit to the culture of which we belonged.
The ancients had no concept of progress for they be-lived a world of periodic cycles. But in a work on that subject by A.E Dodds, I read that the first Pharaoh’s duty and function was to restore the Golden Age.
However we may now seek to understand it or simply fail to, our forbears – all around the world – lived experience in which a cosmic order changed as a result of ‘war in heaven’ in which different Powers or Gods contested for dominance.
In particular the Saturnian era was supplanted by the Jovian era. What we now call planets were not only close enough to activate cultural consciousness but archetypal in terms of a symbolic matrix through which order set over chaos replaced order out of the Divine
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
Revolutions draw on the demonising and destruction of the old as the basis for restoring a lost ideal or creating it anew. But whatever solutions they seem to offer as a progressive step, they carry a demonisation of the past that thus runs dark, while the new offers a mask of virtue for all the unhealed conflicts of the past to reset in.
Even the revolution itself becomes a tool of the ‘order set over chaos’ to reset itself in a new set of robes.
The term chaos can be used to mean different things – not inherently negative. But a personal experience of chaotic disorder is traumatising – by which the past is dissociated or masked over as an active or unresolved track that can run invisibly but be activated by resonance of associated triggers.
Like the Saturnian Era – we see a world in which the Parent/System eats or sacrifices its own children – its own future—as its basis for growth of a system.
The predation on the people by their own institutions has been carried out under the provision of managed identities in a progressive narrative that began as a dream of greatness, but revealed itself as nightmare driven – at least for those who can stomach looking on horror unmasked.
Unfolding fulfilment is not a progressive goal requiring sacrifice, but alignment in true desire. False desires are perversions of the true – generally seeking externally for what has been blocked or denied within.
Who seeks for love outside themselves must perceive hatred within.
That is to say we seek a magical bypass or solution to love that ‘saves us’ from confronting and correcting where we have broken the circle of relationship.
Conflict-evasion is a negatively defines search for love or power, or war on perceived threats, evils and projections thereof.
A true self acceptance is the only starting point we truly have – and as such a restored presence can future potential unfolds – you can call it evolves – for we are not a linear determination of cause and effect – and in truth – prior yo human manufacture or processing—the beholding of the beloved is the extension of recognition in gratitude. There Is whole and holy truth – but there is none in the world we mad but what we give.
The usurp of the creative runs as the outsourcing of love to leverage of controls by which to gain masking substitutions for love as fake solutions demanding sacrifice of truth and love. An addiction affliction runs ideological capture as a self-reinforcing ‘socially reinforced masking evasion.
Fear of change as death is a lack of trust in a greater life than that defined and bounded by death as total loss or total guilt -damnation resulting from exposure.
Modern religion imagines a tv set death -ie when you’re turned off – that’s it!
Responsibility or freedom of will has been usurped by guilting blame – as the war to scape it or get rid of it instead of recognising mistakes as a call for correction.
But escaping the freedom to choose differently to an externalised system of judgements is to use the mind to deny the mind by assigning its agency to external powers given or claiming authority.
There are many perspectives that serve life that are not available to – or are discarded or suppressed by- a polarised identity.
Self-love forms part of the second most important Commandment, not the first.
“Love thy neighbour **as yourself*”.
The greater commandment being to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind ie to love someone outside of yourself. Which is how Christianity differs from New Age self-love or quotes from the bog-standard ‘Jeshua’ channeller.
Stasis vs Change is an interesting philosophical theme, which indeed has dominated across cultures. Change for the better I suppose is what everyone wants.
Saturn’s consuming of everything that might represents change vs Jovian/Jupiter’s overthrow of Saturn’s (Cronos’) regime. Plato’s “blueprints” vs Aristotle’s empiricism. Creation vs Evolution, to name a few. The restoration of a Pharaoh’s “Golden Age” essentially being that of the Garden of Eden ie a state of stasis.
The Potter needs unformed clay to work with to create His masterpiece, yet things can still fall apart later. To be ultimately reformed later.
Change from a fixed starting point generally being preferable to change from no fixed starting point.
Common themes across all Religions, I would suppose 🤔
Did I say anything about self-love?
As far as I am concerned the two commandments attributed to Jesus are one – but the Father is first – not in time but before time.
Your depreciation of your bog standard Jeshua channeler is your freedom to engage in.
There are some teachings that resonate a compression of integral wisdom that I prefer to quote than write out from my own integrative understanding. It is my experience that wherever we judge – THERE is the door to freedom waiting to let through the one who has forgiven themselves for what they judged in others.
Christianity is anything but Christian – though I recognise the baby in the bathtub. The human ego/world will subvert and distort spiritual gifts into weaponised control systems. But the practice of a true forgiveness releases it of what we thought to use it for. This makes way for love to align a ‘different world’ because it is seen with new eyes and serving a different purpose.
Change is guaranteed in a world Of change – this includes shifting contextual frameworks of value, perception and meaning.
Love is the unifying power of alignment.
Lost love is symbolised as a broken world of ‘Paradise Lost’.
But the self-inflation of a ‘special love’ sets up the Fall.
Boom… and Bust!
I hold that there is no stasis IN the world but that the worship of imaged symbol of both love lost – as well as love’s attacker or corrupting seduction would make sacred or special – as in the idea of not being subject to time or change. Ideals are NOT the archetype of reality. God Is.
Linear causation is arbitrary and selective. True Cause is thereby masked out by framing life in judgements as facts to which life must be sacrificed.
Water and dust can and do combine in a Universe of matterforms.
Consider that the balance point is created by the boundary condition as a relational exchange between an inner and outer condition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2q3Dqv9PEA
The field of morphogenesis is first, the embodiment of functional integrity forms within it.According to its kind.
An understanding of the pervasive role of plasma physics within cosmology, physics and biology is of ‘electromagnetic charge’ or ‘bio-fields’ as the matrix through which ‘matter’ forms the substratum for life.
“And God moved across the face of the Waters’ can be read with new eyes.
Symbolic representations were portals or shortcuts to access the Field – of which all that is – Is. They became idols of substitution and operate as psychic archetypes that underlie our sense of self in Story, Myth or Narrative dictate!
What?
He (it, whatever you wish to call that Netanayahu worshipping scum) is a YHWH believing psycho/narcissist.
Vagabard loves a deity that kills (with known stated aim to bring wickedness to an end via the not so great flood) even though it knows that is a limp dick meaningless excuse to kill countless of those created in ITs own image.
Limpdick Vagabard is a re peplica of the YHWH anti-omnibenevolent potter.
Are you Archibald Wheeler’s soul.
Do we make it up as we go along (double sided z Laplace transform aside) and miraculously realise that Vagabard is not the hellhound scum that circumvetnsts the earth prior ITs bigkahuna wreaking eternal havoc on ITs creation (other than for a tiny “elect” list)
?
Spiit the fukken marley’s out.
Please.
Bobby Marley’s?
😂 programmed to lie against the, alleged, bigKahuna over&over&over…ad nauseum ad infinitum as well as comedian bio bot. A multi talented Sissy:
Romans 8
Slimy little git.
‘We who were predestinated will be forever loving Jah, on and on and on and on!’.
So, old man river, don’t cry for me
I’ve got a running stream of love you see
So, no matter what stages, oh stages
Stages, stages they put us through
We’ll never be blue
No matter what rages, oh rages
Changes, rages they put us through
We’ll never be blue
We’ll be forever, yeah!
https://youtu.be/WFCh0Ycjd4Q .
…and your opinionating is your freedom to engage in.
Who loves to hate…
…must hate to love.
The Abrahamic creed knows nothing of love. It only knows how to issue commands for slaves, such as the command to love, which creates a culture of hypocrisy.
That is the most poignant comment I have ever read here Binra! And it has been years of great articles and comments. Saving your words. Thank you.
Who is A.E Dodds ?
I mis-remembered
E. R. DoddsThe specific essay I drew from was “The Ancient Concept of Progress”
It’s not long.
https://archive.org/details/ancientconceptof0000dodd
India, the world’s largest rice exporter, is set to hit record shipments as production rises and new markets open. But experts warn the boom is straining groundwater, since paddy needs 3,000–4,000 litres of water per kg of production. As surplus stocks are piling up, there is a need for smarter farming practices.
2/3 of the planet is covered by water. 90% of a human being is water. Our drinking water comes from the Big Seas via evaporation.
Via wind the water-filled clouds blows over land and it rains. The Monsun thus give health and life giving water from heaven directly into your open mouth and all other living.
It rains around 700m3 water per year per 1000m2. Your familiy live in a house 100m2 and 900m2 garden. A family uses 100m3/year.
Left inside your own lot to grass, birds, trees and roses is 600 m3 a year. Any surplus runs to the ground water, ditches. lakes and rivers back to the sea where it get cleaned again by salt before evaporation again to the clouds.
Now tell me what is your ‘Experts’ fokking problem 😢 ? ‘straining groundwater‘ 😭 😭 ???
Ohhh you get paid per the water you cant find. Ohh then I understand I understand. 🤑 .
Ohh I forgot the telling link. https://youtu.be/u0rypk656QM .
It is a circuitous loop.
gullible, guilty, sek-centred, stupid, a-holes.
Yes, but so what. Are you here just to confirm everything I say?
India is probably not a major beef exporter and their rural water situation may be compared to Australia’s rural water situation. Having said that, here’s a more realistic picture of water needs and use in agriculture, with rice not being the most “thirsty” agricultural product, as we might imagine.
It takes over 20 times more water to produce 1kg of beef compared to rice, grains, beans, fruit and vegetables in Australia.
43% of irrigation water in Australia is used by the animal agriculture industry. Only 24% of irrigation water in Australia is used for fruit, vegetables and grains for human consumption.
The values used to create this graph come from a 2010 study by researchers at the UNESCO Institute for Water Education. The values for animal products are for Australia. Unfortunately the study does not show the values for plant products for Australia, so global average values are displayed. However, according to earlier work (2005) by the same researchers, water use for plant production in Australia is about the same as or less than the global averages.
More data & links HERE:
Water for animal agriculture – Is that for grass or what?
I mean isnt this a wrong calculation/statistic as usual?
The cow eat grass, shit and make fertile land, it rains, grass grows up, one day a scientist from statistic institute arrives to make curves to a PowerPoint.
Nice point. You must be a meat-hater. Meat-lovers hate the truth.
Compound interest demands eternal ‘growth’ because how else is the debt going to be repaid? Anyone wanting to tackle ‘progress’ needs to confront usury or the battle’s lost before it’s begun.
The whole idea that ‘progress’ equals ‘growth’ has its roots in British empiricism. Only things that can be bean-counted are real so advancement is measured by GDP growth and not the more intangibles of an economy. Western economies have seen growth in GDP (and even more deceptively, the stock market) while it’s been obvious they’ve been getting sicker and sicker.
Increased financialisation is the deeper issue here. Trump was going to tackle that and mark a return to production of real goods. How’s it going?
How about converting debt-slavery to systemic guilt – such as to require credits to access primary needs or exchange goods or services?
Financial incentivisation underpins the setting of policy via narrative dictates set in standards, protocols and identity status as transactions as systemic technological surveillance and enforcement.
The progressive ideal has been leveraged by bankster-monopolism as a way to manipulate the mass mindshare.
I’m not disagreeing with you btw.
Globalism is applied ‘Economics’ but has expanded to full spectrum dominance.
I think empiricism as regulated ‘science’ derived from a protestant mindset. The pivot of private banking to the Bank of England is part of the development of its culture by the parasitic control of its body-politic.
Moralism usurped moral integrality.
By selective framing of evil as a call to attack and thus boost identity credits, the underlying causes of which evils are derivative can be masked over and accused to diversionary targets or scapegoats.
Anything seen to be a panacea or universal solution -such as money – will become the arena for all the ills that are thereby unaddressed, unowned and uncorrected.
So I agree that usury – and usurpation of true function by false – is the underlying framework that operates not just in banksters or insider elitism – but as “Co-Intel Inside”. I cant clean out The Temple – but I can address my own – so as to sweep out what has no true belonging. I could call this a ‘work in progress’, but I prefer an unfolding of fulfilment of the day thereof. Love is beyond measure. Our rule and compass runs off with a copy.
The debt can never be repaid, as the interest was never created.
The ideology of progress is a product of modernity, hardly a hiccup of history but filled with such horrors as to render all of human nature “red in tooth an claw” (Tennyson) Accordingly, progress was invented during the European ‘enlightenment’ to explain away new worlds populated by peoples more advanced in freedom and equality compared to the power principles and practices exported to conquer and colonize them. Apparently, violent oppression and massive poverty were necessary for more complex ‘civilization’ to succeed simpler states of ‘savagery’. As a result of so many missed opportunities to learn and live differently, including revolutionary movements inspired by such alternative ways of being, we can only imagine today how much better the world might be were it not for progress. (See The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow.)
Intellectual elitism can leverage horrors ancient and modern – but I’m not arguing the gist of your point.
Cain killing Abel comes to mind as an archetype for ‘attaining or achieving special love’ by denial or sacrifice of love framed by lack-driven envy.
I thinks some of your statements can as well be reversed; modernity as the product of the idol of progress (demonisation of the past as ‘built back better).
I see the masking of cultural and social identity in civilised variants of collectivised controls, but I also hold reality to be real – not our masking substitutions.
So regardless our scripted and suffered drama – the cyclic reiteration of the human conditioning holds spirals of resonance by which to shift perspective.
We do imagine a world in the frame of a linear cause and effect that projects backwards as well as forwards. That imaginations can be locked down or lockstepped by shock is evident to many reading here who are unable to reach those who are invested in the various narrative spinoffs from a Big Lie masking as a real Bang.
Minds can be tricky howbeit we are deceived.
I am not seeking to migrate to an indigenous culture where taboos run in place of systems of guilting exclusion.
But I used to hold the idea of a 4th world native, but my belonging in in Spirit through the world thereof – rather than sacrificing joy in being to fit a world framed in denial.
Until we accept true Cause – we persist a false. Not only that, but a masking self justifictions over the evils or ills arising from persisting in the false. Post modernity seeks the power of the Mask as perception management to which its mindshare are manacled in Pavlov’s Cave.
Does imagination precede and underlie the organising of perception?
Can the dreamer be lost or trapped in their own dreaming?
Compression is integral to expansion or growth.
Integration of both is equilibrium.
That we ‘Fall’ for a self-inflation and struggle within the fragments of a ‘shattered order’ is surely because at some level we want to – even if that must be denied or kept dark – for the experience of a physicalised inversion.
Most here recognise
But few consider this is effected in the mind of rules and filters.
I don’t know how I feel about this. When Colin and Paul Cudnec talk about rejecting “growth” it sounds a lot like the Club of Rome’s agenda outlined in “The Limits of Growth”. Does anti-industrialism involve depopulation? Is it about reducing our energy use? Do these guys believe we need to reduce CO2 emissions to prevent climate change? Or what?
Seems to me like there is no reason to be against “growth” except fictional ones made up by Malthusian eugenicists. My feeling is that we should fear a DECLINE in population, living standards, and energy consumption… With fewer numbers and resources, we are easier to enslave, less able to defend ourselves. The earth can survive 10x the current human population with no problem because the Greenhouse Effect is not real.
Sure there is waste and pollution but we don’t have to return to feudalistic living standards to address those problems. We just need to regulate our monopolist dominated industries. If we don’t, the robber barons will continue polluting the environment all the same. Even if we reverted to stone age lifestyles, the globalists will still be riding their yachts and private jets which generate more pollution in a day than 100s of thousands of regular people do in a year (if we assume CO2 is pollution. and it’s not…), waging wars with their militaries, bombarding the land where regular people live with radioactive depleted uranium, dumping industrial waste into our drinking water, fracking and relentlessly mining rare earth minerals//. They’ll continue dumping chemicals on us from airplanes, fluoridating our water, assaulting us with microplastics and making bigger and bigger factories to build T-800s and robot dogs to kill all humans.
What’s the difference between Colin and Paul’s “anti-growth” ideology and the globalists’?
To go forth and multiply according to its kind can be read a the law of mind.
A negatively framed identity or economy multiplies lack – because it is seeded by ‘Getting’ or lack driven controls.
A positively framed identity or economy extends worth as the expression of an abundance of worth – for it is not invested in a world of transience where ‘rust and moth corrupt’ but in and of our being.
Positive and negative here refer to segregative and integrative – not to nice and nasty or good and evil. But can you tell the different between the rush of a hit of self gratification and the resonance of recognition implicit in the statement:
“And He beheld the light and saw that it was verily Good”?
We might no WANT to know the difference if we believe truth calls for sacrifice of our private personal gain of fiction.
Regardless of what symbols or language used I see a spiritual acceptance as the ‘narrow way’ through which we cannot bring our ego – however ingeniously reframed to ‘spiritual or moral correctness’.
The world has always been a ‘transformative’ opportunity for exploration by experience as a growth of unfolding potentials – not linear goal driven sacrifice.
But it is also experienced as a place where love comes to despair and die.
We shape our experience – we don’t control it. One is a relationship, the other a means to get something from or get rid of something onto others.But every such action meets an equal and opposite reaction.
We will act in the world – even if choosing to not react. But where we are coming from is the true seed we are growing. The compression of life to seed is not a contract to death. But invested self illusion must experience it thus until the investment in pain and delay becomes intolerable.
There Is a tipping point to our tolerance for pain, but death (in all its guises) offers temptation to escape. “Shut down your mind and capacity to feel – take the medications, its a no-brainer!”.
The basis for real questioning is reality. Otherwise statements are framed as questions that don’t then Stop Look and Listen. (Let Life in).
Cudenec is not a lefty but a real anarchist- which is a consciously utopian philosophy in the face of despair and defeat. None of these thinkers advocates depopulation.
I think they understand that Babylon will collapse by itself inevitably, and many will go down with it. The depopulation will happen because the infrastructure that sustains people in the cities will collapse and people will die of hunger and thirst.
Wow, this sounds to be excellent, Colin. Well done for tackling this topic!
I’ve downloaded it and very much look forward to reading it,
Of course, I’ll spread the word that it’s available to download (generously) free of charge.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, a great plan for China!
Spread the word in Cambodia, North Korea, Kremlin, Siberia, Hanoi, and Saudi- Arabia. Mao’s The Little Red and Khmer Rouge is back in town. Thank you, Thank you. 🤖 .
Soon, with national Digital ID in place, along with a cashless
economy, Australian authorities will be able to take control of
ordinary folks spending. The Authorities will decide what
ordinary Australians can or cant buy with their ‘money’ – all
for The Good Cause of Saving The Planet from Climate Change.
Cashless. Pauline Hansen’s ‘Please Explain’ (4:10).
“You will own nothing and you will be happy.” IF chosen freely, fine; if forced top down, nefarious.
M.K. Gandhi was the worst person for India the last century, beating J. Nehru who admired Stalin’s communism after watch a May day parade in Moscow.
Following Gandhi’s home spinning economics would have made India Central Africa level poor. The population’s procreation would have outpaced any food production.
Following Gandhi’s foreign politics would have split India in many more pieces than the three now: It wouldn’t exist anymore. Washington and Beijing would have been very happy, London would be overrun by refugees from the Sub continent 60 years earlier.
Following Gandhi’s personal lifestyle philosophy would have been the end of Hinduism: Christian and Muslim missionaries would have have an eternal free day. Predatory men copying him would have a scot-free life. Dalit leader B.R.Ambedkar was not a fan of MK at all.
You cannot know what would have happened but didnt happen. Why cant a country function on a self-sustained family based population?
There is plenty of room to sophisticated research or science within and on top of that philosophy.
Nobody owns anything right now. That they can’t defend themselves with guns and knives and bazookas.
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Without progress where would we be ? You tell me.
Good. We would be good. Thats where we would be! We would be good.
human bot, seerick
When ‘progress’ destroys freedom.
In the UK, we have a Justice Secretary who acts like someone from a banana republic. I don’t mind and encourage all types of people to come to the UK if they abide by our historic rights of freedoms, and are law-abiding and act with good intent. Now I know that’s a bit much, but compared to many countries around the world, I’m glad I live here.
Anyway, this clown has been told by his ringmaster to halt trial by jury and have a judge decide innocence or guilt. Do I trust judges? about as much as I trust bankers and politicians.
The Justice system survives only by the perception of fairness. That idea is coming apart at the seams, and this is the straw that will break the camel’s back.
Trial by jury?
12 randomly-selected “socially-approved”inherently superior judge-type citizens loaded with the the fate of some complete unknown.
As opposed to some vaguely ‘educated’ bloke who at least had the basic decency to confess that he/she had to study to get we he is/was today?
Might there be a better system to determine eternal Justice? Of course, yes….
To be a judge, you would have sworn a secret oath to the crown. The crown is a corrupt, fraudulent entity hiding who it really is behind the illusion of government and monarch.
Then there is the Crown Prosecution Service and Crown Courts.
Jury all day unless you are an idiot.
In order to get to heaven, you must go through military hell first.
I think it depends on who it is. There are Judges who takes their job serious, and you can find jury members who also do a proper work.
Latest I read about some homosexual actor in Hollywood who got blacklisted and ended up homeless because of some rumours and accusations about abuse.
This guy praised the jury for going into depth of the accusations and freed him here from. Just to mention one of the cases where it works.
The idea with a Jury is that we must all be able to stand the scrutiny of 12 different ordinary trusted members of society plus a professional Judge.
I do not find this requirement unreasonable as the persons in spot have a duly chance to explain and defend his case to these.
If he/she cant do or would refuse this exercise, he/she should move. This is the whole idea with living together in a civilisation and a ‘democracy’.
That we are able to face each other under common universal accepted law.
Trust,
That’s what you do when you purposely have children
you believe some of their rules
I don’t believe any
The most important step
“…encourage all types of people to come to the UK…” And you’re happy to pay for all this I assume. I’m not. I can’t afford it and from my SE England perspective we’re already over-filled.
Agreed, and immigration must be capped. But if there was no immigration our population would have already collapsed. Unless you’re blind, white women arent having enough kids to keep levels steady.
I walked the streets of Glasgow yesterday and probably 70% of the people were from foreign shores. Most other places are the same. Only 50 yrs ago 99% would have been born and bred locally.
Population control is already running at speed, and mass uncontrolled immigration keeps that fact hidden.
As for ‘paying for this’. I dont want to pay at all. All money should be created as the Bradbury Pound, free of debt and interest.
Places governed by the Napoleonic code have judges in place of juries. It all works out approximately the same, with a few exceptions.
One day I realised that “progress” was no more than change for the worse, a bit like prog rock really.
Generally referred to as “aging” I believe. When that third set of teeth never materialized as expected.
And/or when Gen+my_own music seems inherently, interminably inferior.The date of the onset of the ‘one day’ tending to be significant, at least individually.
Yet those incurably young still incurably seem to retain their misguided hopes and dreams of a better world