Less pop. More culture.

by Christian Acker
January 3, 2021

cultūra - culture - Middle French (“cultivation; culture”), from Latin cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate, worship”) (related to colōnus and colōnia), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).

Noun
1. culture (countable and uncountable, plural cultures)The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
2. The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
3. The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising of the accepted norms and values of a society.
4. (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
5. (botany) Cultivation. quotations
6. (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
7. The growth thus produced.

I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died.

8. A group of bacteria.
9. (cartography) The details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such as names and the symbols for towns, roads, meridians, and parallels.
10. (archaeology) A recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society.

Lasting change only ever comes from the bottom up. Never from the top down. Change is organic. It is growth. It is alive.