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Evolving language “What's your take?”

1 points by morpheos137 5y ago

In the past year or two I have noticed the astonishing proliferation of the word "take" in online comments to mean opinion / interpretation / understanding / point of view on a topic. To me gratuitous linguistic mimicry is some times a sign of a weak independent thinking capability. we were able to converse before using the verb "take" in a weird idiomatic way. What's your take on how this happened?

rektide 5y ago
You deleted your very recent submission, which I thought was more engagable. You said something along the lines of society being driven by fear, easily goaded into excitement & exacerbated. I wish to talk to that post, which you deleted. I agree there's a lot of excitement & exacerbation that bringing the world online comes with. But all in all, I see it mostly as a harmless outgassing. Actual effect is accumulated to things that matter. I think the fear uncertainty & doubt that posts like this try to shade the new connected world with- I think they gin up & overstate the dangers. There will be tons of outgassing, a lot of disdain, as we move towards a world where more is revealed, where we are connected to a lot of outrages & concerns, but I think the real concerns shine through, that the fear of this storm is vastly vastly vastly vastly overrated, is nothing. Focusing too much on the momentary & the transient responses, & not attending to the higher level responses, the things that endure- it's a huge sad ongoing mistake we make. We cover what feels like it has a big impact based on the current moment of pop-culture, but in fact, if we took a slightly bigger view of what was happening, we could much more gracefully admit the blips & temporary rough patches & see & understand that in fact we were becoming radically better at Democracy on a medium scale, that we were calibrating to what we care about very well.
- morpheos137 5y ago
  The mods hid it not me.

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Evolving language “What's your take?”

1 points by morpheos137 5y ago

rektide 5y ago
You deleted your very recent submission, which I thought was more engagable. You said something along the lines of society being driven by fear, easily goaded into excitement & exacerbated. I wish to talk to that post, which you deleted. I agree there's a lot of excitement & exacerbation that bringing the world online comes with. But all in all, I see it mostly as a harmless outgassing. Actual effect is accumulated to things that matter. I think the fear uncertainty & doubt that posts like this try to shade the new connected world with- I think they gin up & overstate the dangers. There will be tons of outgassing, a lot of disdain, as we move towards a world where more is revealed, where we are connected to a lot of outrages & concerns, but I think the real concerns shine through, that the fear of this storm is vastly vastly vastly vastly overrated, is nothing. Focusing too much on the momentary & the transient responses, & not attending to the higher level responses, the things that endure- it's a huge sad ongoing mistake we make. We cover what feels like it has a big impact based on the current moment of pop-culture, but in fact, if we took a slightly bigger view of what was happening, we could much more gracefully admit the blips & temporary rough patches & see & understand that in fact we were becoming radically better at Democracy on a medium scale, that we were calibrating to what we care about very well.
- morpheos137 5y ago
  The mods hid it not me.