Within the word we find two dimensions, reflection and action, in such radical interaction that if one is sacrificed—even in part—the other immediately suffers.
Change, however, is persistent enough, and it is difficult to see how it could be arrested, short of the death of mankind. Existence itself is a changeful process- a process of conception, gestation, birth, growth and decay.
There is a further preliminary distinction to be made. Conscious of their regressive direction, reactionaries are always anxious to deny the existence of progress. This is an emotive word and must be handled with care.
This is the question I've come to after first learning the word tilth in mid-2019. Since then, I have begun transitioning from 15 years in startups into the classroom as a middle school teacher.
This is the first time I've seen culture as a synonym and find it so very apropos.
I discovered the word at Farm Days in Placerville, CA in 2019 and have been rolling it over in my mind ever since. Adopted and dedicated to Oregon Tilth, as it was their magazine at my friends wool spinning booth that kicked off the journey leading to this wonderful question:
Modern political economy stands on a precisely similar basis. Assuming, not that the human being has no skeleton, but that it is all skeleton, it founds an ossifiant theory of progress on this negation of a soul; and having shown the utmost that may be made of bones, and constructed a number of interesting geometrical figures with death's-heads and humeri, successfully proves the inconvenience of the reappearance of a soul among these corpuscular structures. I do not deny the truth of this theory: I simply deny its applicabilitv to the present phase of the world.
Comments by nathanscripps
nathanscripps commented on the word radical
Whither tilth?
Paolo Freire
1970
Within the word we find two dimensions, reflection and action, in such radical interaction that if one is sacrificed—even in part—the other immediately suffers.
December 16, 2020
nathanscripps commented on the word change
Whither tilth?
Sir Herbert Read
To Hell with Culture
Change, however, is persistent enough, and it is difficult to see how it could be arrested, short of the death of mankind. Existence itself is a changeful process- a process of conception, gestation, birth, growth and decay.
December 13, 2020
nathanscripps commented on the word change
Whither tilth?
Sir Herbert Read
To Hell with Culture
There is a further preliminary distinction to be made. Conscious of their regressive direction, reactionaries are always anxious to deny the existence of progress. This is an emotive word and must be handled with care.
December 13, 2020
nathanscripps commented on the word presidential
I am saddened that President Trump has widened the interpretation of acts that are presidential.
December 8, 2020
nathanscripps commented on the word whither
Whither tilth?
This is the question I've come to after first learning the word tilth in mid-2019. Since then, I have begun transitioning from 15 years in startups into the classroom as a middle school teacher.
December 8, 2020
nathanscripps commented on the word tilth
This is the first time I've seen culture as a synonym and find it so very apropos.
December 8, 2020
nathanscripps commented on the word ossifiant
Modern political economy stands on a precisely similar basis. Assuming, not that the human being has no skeleton, but that it is all skeleton, it founds an ossifiant theory of progress on this negation of a soul; and having shown the utmost that may be made of bones, and constructed a number of interesting geometrical figures with death's-heads and humeri, successfully proves the inconvenience of the reappearance of a soul among these corpuscular structures. I do not deny the truth of this theory: I simply deny its applicabilitv to the present phase of the world.
Whither tilth?
John Ruskin
The Roots of Honour
Unto This Last
December 8, 2020
nathanscripps commented on the user nathanscripps
Whither tilth?
December 8, 2020