If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.

We survive by naming shapes.

Lion, lightning, invoice. Commit to memory, move on.

That shorthand spares calories, keeps skin intact, and lets us cross streets without philosophizing about trucks.

The tradeoff: the moment a thing fits a label, its edges fade.

Nuance gets deleted, anomalies slip through the net, the field of possibility shrinks.

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whatever happens to be the latest term for pathologising your life experience. Everything is flattened, simplified. I worried that being immersed in it was making me think this way too.