i'm not much for labels.

that's not always been the case, and it seems as though, for the majority of the population, it's not presently the case either. it seems as though everywhere you go there are people who really want you to know, who won't hesitate to tell you exactly who they percieve themselves to be.

personally, i've never figured that out, like when people define themselves as either conservative or liberal and the biggest insult they can levy at someone else is to call them a conservative or a liberal, whichever one they themselves don't happen to be. that sort of identification process is definitely not confined to that pair of "ideal" types, however, because anytime people start to define and label themselves ideologically, they do the same thing.

what i've never understood is the air of moral superiority that seems to inevitably show up with that kind of identification, as though there was some sort of virtue that came from simply being conservative, or liberal, or a feminist, or a communist, or a white supremacist, whatever. the troublesome thing is that methods of identification that aren't even inherently dependent on ideology become dependent, well maybe not dependent, but they develop an ideology of their own.

a nickel to anyone who can think of an example.

feeling: in need of a deep breath
thinking of: socks
music: "days like this" van morrison