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Vocabulary
meaning of "roots"
Does "roots" in the following text imply "places" (i.e connections with places)?
Context:
The abstraction of the ‘electronic ether’, of global cyberspace, is precisely the factor that calls for the need to ensure that a sense of ‘hereness’ remains, without thereby tying people to place: ‘We don’t necessarily need what used to be called face-to face communities, but we need communities whose presence we can experience in a material, embodied, sensory manner. That’s the key, rather than the idea that people need roots’
Context:
The abstraction of the ‘electronic ether’, of global cyberspace, is precisely the factor that calls for the need to ensure that a sense of ‘hereness’ remains, without thereby tying people to place: ‘We don’t necessarily need what used to be called face-to face communities, but we need communities whose presence we can experience in a material, embodied, sensory manner. That’s the key, rather than the idea that people need roots’
Top answer
Yes. The traditional use of "roots" means that the people are involved in a community that is in a particular place. ) The dead metaphor is of a tree, say, that has deep roots that hold it in firmly in place against storm and flood.
- Yes.
- The traditional use of "roots" means that the people are involved in a community that is in a particular place.
- ) The dead metaphor is of a tree, say, that has deep roots that hold it in firmly in place against storm and flood.
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Yes. The traditional use of "roots" means that the people are involved in a community that is in a particular place. (Not a community that is wandering about, like, say, vacationers on a three week cruise.) The dead metaphor is of a tree, say, that has deep roots that hold it in firmly in place against storm and flood.
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