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==Criticism of the District== | ==Criticism of the District== | ||
The Human Development District and its associated initiatives have been the subject of criticism, much of which has been levelled by opponents of the Kiravian government's allegedly imperialistic policies in Crona. In 21203, the editorial staff of the newspaper ''[[Ɣábravik]]'' condemned the HDD as a "model concentration camp designed to divert and deflect attention from the ongoing atrocities being committed by the Candrin administration" and as a "foreign and domestic propaganda tool being used to delude Cronites into accepting Kiravian domination as a benevolent force." Marcelo Teixeira, a former executive for Hornbill Freight Systems, a logistics contractor for the Kiravian government, told ''Ɣábravik'' that government agencies working in Mid-Atrassic Crona prioritise shipments of food, medicine, and other necessities to the HDD and the Joint Security Areas around [[Chappaqua]] over other areas. Delegate Terésa Krestor Avorrin ([[Caritist Social Union|CSU]]-[[Metrea]]) led an effort joined by 35 anti-administration members of the [[Federal Stanora|Stanora]] to conduct a legislative investigation of living conditions in the District, but this was blocked by the pro-administration camp. | The Human Development District and its associated initiatives have been the subject of criticism, much of which has been levelled by opponents of the Kiravian government's allegedly imperialistic policies in Crona. In 21203, the editorial staff of the newspaper ''[[Ɣábravik]]'' condemned the HDD as a "model concentration camp designed to divert and deflect attention from the ongoing atrocities being committed by the Candrin administration" and as a "foreign and domestic propaganda tool being used to delude Cronites into accepting Kiravian domination as a benevolent force." Mixæl Merav, an independent filmmaker who was invited to tour several "contemporary rural clusters" and "modern collective living" developments in the District, remarked that the District was "at best a bizarre {{wp|Lusotropicalism|Kirotemperatist}} experiment in creating a Coscivian "Cosmic Race" with a deranged Tech Corridor startup mentality, and at worst a smokescreen of buzzwords and Potemkin villages obscuring genocide on an unprecedented scale." | ||
Marcelo Teixeira, a former executive for Hornbill Freight Systems, a logistics contractor for the Kiravian government, told ''Ɣábravik'' that government agencies working in Mid-Atrassic Crona prioritise shipments of food, medicine, and other necessities to the HDD and the Joint Security Areas around [[Chappaqua]] over other areas. Delegate Terésa Krestor Avorrin ([[Caritist Social Union|CSU]]-[[Metrea]]) led an effort joined by 35 anti-administration members of the [[Federal Stanora|Stanora]] to conduct a legislative investigation of living conditions in the District, but this was blocked by the pro-administration camp. | |||
Others have criticised the management of the District rather than its existence. Ivardus Hopsin, former director of a government-funded literacy programme in the District, told an annual meeting of the ''Worshipful and Very Quiet Guild of Kiravian Librarians'' that "the way things are done Human Development District is reflective of an administration that still isn't sure what it wants to do in Crona. In one subdivision, with one tribe, they want Coscivian cultural education and they want textbooks to use Coscivian loanwords. In another they want calques and synthesis from native roots. In Horizon City they want to teach Coscivian itself. This is what we see in the educational sector, but the same pattern applies across the board as far as aid distribution, development, job training, and so on." Similarly, Nestorius Y.P.G. Grampian, a [[Shaftonist democracy|Shaftonist-democratic]] political theorist and general supporter of the Candrin administration wrote in the circular ''Persistence of Vision'' that "in the HDD we see once again that perpetual Ancient Coscivian logic of [[Verticalism]], an order in which one's economic life is determined by bureaucrats on the basis of tribe, clan, and caste. Kirosocialism defeated, we had thought that this creeping vine had finally been extirpated from our polity, but it is clear now that the errors of Verticalism are so deeply imprinted in the Coscivian psyche that they become the default manner of administration to which we invariably revert in the absence of strong organic institutions." | Others have criticised the management of the District rather than its existence. Ivardus Hopsin, former director of a government-funded literacy programme in the District, told an annual meeting of the ''Worshipful and Very Quiet Guild of Kiravian Librarians'' that "the way things are done Human Development District is reflective of an administration that still isn't sure what it wants to do in Crona. In one subdivision, with one tribe, they want Coscivian cultural education and they want textbooks to use Coscivian loanwords. In another they want calques and synthesis from native roots. In Horizon City they want to teach Coscivian itself. This is what we see in the educational sector, but the same pattern applies across the board as far as aid distribution, development, job training, and so on." Similarly, Nestorius Y.P.G. Grampian, a [[Shaftonist democracy|Shaftonist-democratic]] political theorist and general supporter of the Candrin administration wrote in the circular ''Persistence of Vision'' that "in the HDD we see once again that perpetual Ancient Coscivian logic of [[Verticalism]], an order in which one's economic life is determined by bureaucrats on the basis of tribe, clan, and caste. Kirosocialism defeated, we had thought that this creeping vine had finally been extirpated from our polity, but it is clear now that the errors of Verticalism are so deeply imprinted in the Coscivian psyche that they become the default manner of administration to which we invariably revert in the absence of strong organic institutions." | ||