Labels Are The Ultimate No Brainers

Don’t stick me with your labels.

Living a life under label is living with limitation.

Sure labels serve a purpose for identification but they are misused to divide, to isolate and to put us into boxes that make other people comfortable. Labels are used to prevent us from thinking. They stop us questioning beyond the superficial.

Labels are often by their very nature superficial – where you come from, what you look like, what you do. God forbid you should be a bit “out there” – we’ll just slap you with a label and it’s back into the box with you.

They are used to create elite minorities bloated on false praise and separated from the masses. There can be no questioning – labels are used to prevent it. Questioners are labeled racist, anti-semitic, or a bigot of any persuasion. Questions therefore shut down by labels.

Labels are truly dangerous ideas when implanted into susceptible minds. Children being labeled as problems needing medication. Children being labeled as hopeless and without value from their first footsteps. Yet we wonder why they grow up to participate in extreme risk taking behaviour with complete disregard for their own life or the life of others. Could it be we replaced hope with a label?

Labels stop us from thinking at every level, making labels the ultimate no brainers. Labels are the unthinking man’s tools to create a fragile, f^&*ed up future.