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In a message dated 5/3/01 10:58:59 AM Central Daylight Time, 
cirhsein at yahoo_com writes:

<< Labels are simply a means of identifying things - there's nothing 
inherently
 wrong with them. The only time they become wrong is when they are used in a
 negative or derogatory manner.
  >>
  What I think is the biggest inherent prob with *relying* on labels too 
much, mainly when applied to people or their art,  is that they reduce people 
down to something which can be quantified, itemized, analyzed, etc., like 
some science experiment.  Labels victimize people.  People, in the words of 
Terry Taylor, are "too complex to be tamed, too great to be grasped"
Like a meme in advertising they get in our head and buzz buzz buzzz drowning 
out everything else.  Sure, we can call a Ford a Ford and somewhat accurately 
describe one but us strange animals are more than the sum or our parts.

kevin


"I am whats I am and that's what I am."
Popeye the Sailorman
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