CHAT: Labelling, (was Race etc, (was PC terminology etc))

 James E. Hopkins wrote, in my opinion correctly, on the 26th of December,

>The feeling of aversion to "labeling" is interesting considering that (in my
>admittedly non-expert) opinion that is exactly what all language is: Labeling
>for the purpose of making distinction.
>I only use the word "derevush" (Druni for "tree") only to distinguish it from
>"soboneri" (Druni for "computer"). If there were no need for distinguishing
>the two there would be no need for labeling and hence no need for language.
>As language-lovers we should explore that a little more.
What then lies in this aversion to labeling. I have it to; I even tear labels
off clothing.
I resist being typed. I like store brand groceries, usually.  I think it
applies to personification.

I am me. Categorize me and you are not referring to me any more, but to some
deliberately vague representation of me.  It is...a violent order.  This empty
can on my desk once held cranberry sauce. Sure it was Whole Berry. But the
brand doesn't
enter into it. Who cares what the brand was? And I live in a town that is
about half black and half white.  Color becomes useful when trying to describe
someone to someone else. There is a whole cacophonous symphony of other
references and knowledge that goes with the racial elements here. But a friend
is a friend is a friend.
And there is no labeling that.

"The Tao that can be named is not the true Tao.
 The name that can be named is not the Eternal Name.
 Everything in the universe comes out of Nothing.
 Nothing  - the nameless - is the beginning;"

 Sometimes names have uses. Indeed we converse and share and entertain with
  them. And we also injure shame and anger with them, Sometimes.
  So there is a time to label, to name, even to play at naming.
   And there is a time to be silent, ......, to shut up.

   479 letters to go !

   Dan Baisden


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A. A violet order is disorder, and
B. A great disorder is an order. These
Two things are one. (Pages of illustrations.)

>From "A  Connoisseur of Chaos"  by Wallace Stevens