we live in an idiocracy with a judiciary made up of fucking idiots. i've been constantly frustrated by the sheer stupidity of the judges i've had to deal with, their overwhelming incompetence when faced with simple tasks involving analyzing clear evidence, their inability to process simple logic, their inability to follow their own instructions and their frequent levels of deep corruption.

i've already decided that the courts are a waste of time. canadians need to find ways to get to just outcomes outside of the legal system, because the legal system is broken.

today's astonishing order features an adjudicator that didn't understand grade school math, and wanted an expert witness to explain to him how to read a graph. i did not foresee this, but i'm not sure it matters much. i'm an expert witness on grade school math, and i told them that, but an expert witness is only required to explain grade school math to people that failed it. 

i don't think any level of testimony would have helped this guy understand something that he clearly lacked the basic education to understand. little less than sending him back to adult high school to learn basic math would have been helpful. he did not understand how to read the graph and was not going to understand how to read it. but if that's the person who's holding the gavel, what do you do?

there is no longer an appeals process in canada, due to vavilov. bad rulings with errors that might have previously been corrected on appeal are no longer allowed to have appeals to them heard at all. in the absence of a working appeals process, errors of fact and law become established as precedent and repeated in future rulings. the result is the co-option of case law and the perpetuation of nonsense built up on top of itself via stare decisis.

the last time we saw this in western culture was during the dark ages, when volumes of nonsense were written on the back of the ignorance of aristotle. we are falling back into the backwards judeao-muslim-christian ideological frameworks that we emerged from during the enlightenment.

our utterly broken court system has repeatedly astonished me. the point of failure is the incompetent judiciary, installed through insufficiently rigorous hiring processes. too many people get hired because of how they look and when they're screened for qualifications it's to align with a market libertarian ideology that is inconsistent with the crux of canada's settled common law, which is about individual rights. we're seeing the entire legal edifice collapse, and it's being replaced by this horrible catholic civil law that nobody voted for and few people want. but people aren't aware of what's happening, which is a massive quiet counter-revolution in the guts of the legal system.

canadians need to put a focus on electing secular politicians before it's too late, if it isn't already. it's extremely important. we're on the brink of a collapse into totalitarianism, and we've lost the courts without realizing what was happening. fixing the courts will come as a corollary of a move back towards secular governance.