From the mind of critic: “If cheap doesn’t always mean worse, and expensive doesn’t always mean better, what’s our ballast point? If poor and homeless doesn’t always mean inferior, and rich and influential doesn’t always mean superior, what’s our precedent? Are we doing ourselves wrong by looking for a black and white rock of gibralter, that is the end all be all scale to judge if our judgements are correct? Are we taking two steps backs if we put energy into validating our judgements, solidifying that we don’t want to learn new things because we don’t have to? Or do we think we have all the answers, and everyone who agrees with us is our friend, and everyone that disagrees with us is our enemy? Stereotypes, labels, epithets, nicknames and assumptions are all used to simplify the complex world we live in. So much info and so many events and opportunities flash by on a daily basis, that we have to form them in such a way that our brains comprehend them. What can shove our progress backward, is making sense of something by labeling it and then never asking questions about it again, thinking we have it all figured out so we go on to the next thing. Once we realize that most of our assumptions end up opposite of what we think, we’ll see that labels don’t free up our thoughts for other things, they stop us from thinking. If life is learned as we go, then we’ll never have everything figured out. Labels inhibit evolution, they don’t help it along. Moving forward includes critical thinking, not blind assumptions” 🙂