Throp-Sloth

[rosenlake at mac.com]

Throp is a variant of thorp, a Middle English word for hamlet,
agricultural village. (O.E.D.)

Sloth is sorrow in the face of God, Providence, Capitalist Reward,
Technological Progress.

While Sloth may have contributed to the rise of fascism, it can not
sustain it.

Luddite literature looks to a miraculous past to create a possible
future that will not have followed the path we are urged to take by our
"admirals, generals and corporate CEO's" ("Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?").

Is there some dream of pre-industrial village life, like in the poems of
John Clare, by which Our Hero judges his progress or lack of it? From
his asylum despairing "Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low
Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . ." ?

--
Eric R