Why Shortcuts Lead to Long Delays
Labels and statistics: excellent tools for handling things in quantities, but when it comes to individuals, as you say, they lessen, demean, and bind. Such things evolved, I suppose, out of the need to talk to each other about 'that, over there' when 'that' was out of sight, or standing next to something else... It was a shortcut to dragging someone over to confront 'that.' We use shortcuts because the world is complex and we have so many decisions to make--what to let get close to us, to... Sign in to see full entry.