{"id":94124,"date":"2020-01-11T11:09:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T10:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/?p=94124"},"modified":"2021-02-19T03:19:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T02:19:18","slug":"david-abram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/documentation-centre\/david-abram","title":{"rendered":"David Abram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ecologically considered, it is not primarily our verbal statements that are &#8220;true&#8221; or &#8220;false,&#8221; but rather the kind of relations that we sustain with the rest of nature. A human community that lives in a mutually beneficial relation with the surrounding earth is a community, we might say, that lives in truth. The ways of speaking common to that community\u2014the claims and beliefs that enable such reciprocity to perpetuate itself\u2014are, in this important sense, <em>true<\/em>. They are in accord with a right relation between these people and their world.<\/p>\n<p>Statements and beliefs, meanwhile, that foster violence toward the land, ways of speaking that enable the impairment or ruination of the surrounding field of beings, can be described as <em>false<\/em> ways of speaking\u2014ways that encourage an unsustainable relation with the encompassing earth. A civilization that relentlessly destroys the living land it inhabits is not well acquainted with truth, regardless of how many supported facts it has amassed regarding the calculable properties of its world.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-94124\" data-postid=\"94124\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-94124 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecologically considered, it is not primarily our verbal statements that are &#8220;true&#8221; or &#8220;false,&#8221; but rather the kind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":94135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,169],"tags":[333,276],"class_list":["post-94124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentation-centre","category-quotations-of-wisdom","tag-ancestral-traditions","tag-ethics","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94140,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94124\/revisions\/94140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}