I play this game when I want to understand how language hooks ideas together and to ferret out odd meanings of things. I call it Dictionary Chase. I start with a word look it up and find the next most interesting word in the definition of the first one and so on.
spin
verb
give (a news story or other information) a particular interpretation, especially a favorable one.
draw out (wool, cotton, or other material) and convert it into threads, either by hand or with machinery.
spin wool into the yarn for weaving
make (threads) by drawing out and twisting fibers.
a particular bias, interpretation, or point of view, intended to create a favorable (or sometimes, unfavorable) impression when presented to the public.
synonyms:
slant, angle, twist, bias
Origin
Old English spinnan ‘draw out and twist (fiber)’; related to German spinnen . The noun dates from the mid 19th century.
A yarn is a story and when you tell it you are weaving the story…
yarn
noun
noun: yarn; plural noun: yarns
spun thread used for knitting, weaving, or sewing.
informal
a long or rambling story, especially one that is implausible.
synonyms:
story, tale, anecdote, saga, narrative, tall tale, tall story, fish story, cock-and-bull story, shaggy-dog story, spiel
verb
informal
verb: yarn; 3rd person present: yarns; past tense: yarned; past participle: yarned; gerund or present participle: yarning
tell a long or implausible story.
“they were yarning about local legends and superstitions
Some stories can be very hard to believe…
implausible
im·plau·si·ble
imˈplôzəb(ə)l/
adjective
adjective: implausible
(of an argument or statement) not seeming reasonable or probable; failing to convince.
“this is a blatantly implausible claim”
synonyms:
unlikely, improbable, questionable, doubtful, debatable unrealistic, unconvincing, far-fetched, incredible, unbelievable, unimaginable, inconceivable, fantastic, fanciful, ridiculous, absurd, preposterous, impossible, hard to swallow, cock and bull
Which you, to make it a good and a plausible story, draw out your points (threads) and twist them to fit your ideas: you spin your threads…
spin
spin/
verb
give (a news story or other information) a particular interpretation, especially a favorable one.
draw out (wool, cotton, or other material) and convert it into threads, either by hand or with machinery.
“they spin wool into the yarn for weaving”
make (threads) by drawing out and twisting fibers.
“this method is used to spin filaments from syrups”
a particular bias, interpretation, or point of view, intended to create a favorable (or sometimes, unfavorable) impression when presented to the public.
synonyms:
slant, angle, twist, bias
Creating a bias – a slant, your slant – almost like a little white lie like you tell your parents to escape punishment…
bias
noun
noun: bias; plural noun: biases
prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
“there was evidence of bias against foreign applicants”
a concentration on or interest in one particular area or subject.
synonyms:
prejudice, partiality, partisanship, favoritism, unfairness, one-sidedness; bigotry, intolerance, discrimination, leaning, tendency, inclination, predilection, caste-ism,
influence, color, sway, weight, predispose, distort, skew, slant
Statistics:
systematic distortion of a statistical result due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation.
Usually to make your point, create your point of view and to control the story and the people listening to it by creating a prejudice…
prejudice
plural noun: prejudices
preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.
synonyms:
preconceived idea, preconception, prejudgment, dislike, hostility, or unjust behavior deriving from unfounded opinions.
Which invariably creates actions towards the other viewpoints that are combative…
verb: prejudice
verb: prejudice; 3rd person present: prejudices; past tense: prejudiced; past participle: prejudiced; gerund or present participle: prejudicing
Law
cause harm to (a state of affairs).
synonyms:
damage, be detrimental to, be prejudicial to, injure, harm, hurt, spoil, impair, undermine, hinder, compromise
The point being to lock your head into ONLY one way of seeing, observing, understanding a topic for one reason and one reason only, CONTROL – of you.
This is the season of SPIN. It’s coming at you from every direction, 360 degrees, possible. Spin does not mean the information is incorrect, or wrong, it just means a little off from true, its slanted, partisan – toward one party or faction or another. The fact that it is being used to create a prejudice within us, however, to foment emotion and cement or change our loyalties needs to be noted. I am reminded of John Rappoport’ s article: The night the world recovered its sanity. We are all totally free to choose one perspective over another – one bias over another, just as long as we have thought it through and don’t allow it to close off our minds to what might be found in the future to be a more complete understanding of the whole.
Keep the damned trap door open…..
In the Mind's Eye 