Re:Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
by TheSpiceIsLife on Saturday January 20, 2018 @03:41AM
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That's a great point.
Even the very word discussion comes from late Middle English (in the sense ‘dispel, disperse’, also ‘examine by argument’): from Latin discuss- ‘dashed to pieces’, later ‘investigated’, from the verb discutere, from dis- ‘apart’ + quatere ‘shake’.
We generally don't do a very good job of talking about things in way that brings those things, or us each other, closer together.
Even the very word discussion comes from late Middle English (in the sense ‘dispel, disperse’, also ‘examine by argument’): from Latin discuss- ‘dashed to pieces’, later ‘investigated’, from the verb discutere, from dis- ‘apart’ + quatere ‘shake’.
We generally don't do a very good job of talking about things in way that brings those things, or us each other, closer together.