Tell you what I want…

To protect vulnerable new ideas from systemic process.

I advocate developing a scaled-down and reconfigured model of social economics, government and citizenship in three ways:

1. No State, less Bourse, and more mutuality in business.

2. Less global, less mercantile, more sufficiency, more entrepreneurial, more agricultural, more communitarian capitalist in political economics.

3. To make zero-agenda education more….

  • Holistic in giving a much larger role to civics, mental and physical health, cultural history, and personal responsibility.
  • Grounded in returning the role of ‘teacher’ (in its more eclectic sense) to being one of inspiration, discernment of individual student metier (talent), and the achievement of practical skills in all the key areas of maths, language, media, technology, business, and the Law.

The aim would be to make future generations far more willing to think for themselves and question the wisdom of the status quo. To make future products of education less vulnerable, in possession of far more self-esteem, and able to grasp not just that fellow-citizens are as important as them, but why.

A natural corollary of this approach would be the rejection of rigid ideology – be it racial, religious, gender-based or political.

Some specific policy aims

 

To rescue the past from EUNATO’s Orwellian Stalinists

To introduce the best possible proportional representation as the voting form in Western democracies

To reduce the power of central Government in favour of local communities, whose Reps would replace the House of Lords

To clear monied influence out of politics

To clear all commercial lobbying out of government

  To cap inheritance from one generation to the next at an absolute level

To reduce the tax burden of small business

To ban media ownership by expats and foreign nationals

To drastically reduce citizen surveillance

To remove health and pension provision from central government, and fund it via mutualised insurance/employer schemes NOT private Health insurance

To reduce the role of Bourses in funding capitalism by making retail banks revert to their original role of keeping capitalism creative and anthropologically social

John Ward, 2024