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Cult Cultivate Culture


~ CULT       id+ ESSENTIALLY AN ACT REGARDED AS PRACTICAL
                 this feature is the KEY or CLUE
             note CULT IS BASED UPON BUT IT IS
                  NOT LIMITED TO RELIGION     sug> OCCULT
             .....
             myth> THE CULT OF DIONYSUS or BACCHUS   
                   SUCH SYMBOLIC DEITIES UNDERSCORE 
             INTERACTIONS BETWEEN BELIEF and REASON
             perhaps DIONYSUS stands for MADNESS as well as
                     for CONCEPTION LIFE and DEATH 
             note how 
                         IDEA of an IDEA 
                              is a 
                           CONCEPTION
             note how for some 
                   VEGETATIVE MIND  or  INSTINCTS
                          belong to the 
                          REALM OF CULTS 
             ..... 
~ CULTIVATE  id+ TO TILL as in
                 to grow from SEED or SHOOT 
                 as in
                 TO IMPROVE  DEVELOP
~ CULTURE    CULTURE and CULTS are promoted by STATES
             lat CULTURA = CULTIVATION or
             .....
  lat CULTUS    from
      COLERE  = TO TILL or CULTIVATE
  lit+ two modern views of culture 
       A SOLZHENITSYN [#]
       culture is 
  THAT WHICH FOSTERS A PERSON'S INNER LIFE also
  THE SUM OF INTELLECTUAL PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICAL and
  AESTHETIC ACHIEVEMENTS        
  .....
  ply> | CULTURE IS A WAY TO BE rather than TO HAVE |
  lit+ " OMNIA MEA PORTO MECUM "    sug> OMNIBUS
         WHAT I HAVE IS IN ME       sug> IMPORTANT
  from CICERO [#] in Paradoxa i 2   sug>   PORTABLE
  ply> | CULTURE IMPLIES INTELLECTUAL WORK
         TO TILL THE JUNGLE OF IGNORANCE
         TO CULTIVATE CIVILIZED BEHAVIORS |
  note that to some degree CULTURE and INTELLIGENCE are RELATED
  ukr INTELLIGENTSIA = EDUCATED CULTIVATED CLASS OF PEOPLE
                       implicitly CAPABLE OF THOUGHT as if
  THE THINKING CLASS   as in INTELLIGENT  INTELLECT  as if
                       INTELLIGENCE LIGATES       sug> DELEGATE
  also note tendency in modern eng to demean "INTELLIGENTSIA" or
  ridicule INTELLECTUALS as in "PIN HEADED"
  .....          
  art> IN MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN ART
       "DOCTORS" and PHYSICIANS were often depicted as having
  A FUNNEL ON THEIR HEAD eg NARROW MINDED
 

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