Have you ever thought about what life would be like without “names”? It would not be much different than life currently. So today I am sitting at Ember Bar in downtown Orlando drinking a glass of crappy wine just observing social interaction between Ann the bartender and some dude ordering a drink. Random dude starts trying to start conversation with the bartender and she is not listening to any of the words coming out his mouth but miraculously she seems to grasp the drink he orders. The dude on the other hand is busy multi-tasking, he is staring at her boobs and talking out his ass about how they might have went to high school together. She does her best to avoid all the social confrontation yet at the same time still seems interesting enough in the dude to swindle a nice tip out of him. At the end of the conversation the pair exchanged names in which I could almost guarantee that 3 minutes later if tested both would forget each other’s name. If you asked the two people in the case study how each would be remembered by each other, the dude would remember the bartender as quote on quote “sexy bartender” and the girl would remember the guy as “creepy dude”. So I ask what is the essential purpose of a “name” other than a label?
In the greater percentage of time we just remember people by the size of their boobs, the cars they drive or the really weird growth on their lips and we refer back to them in our mind by these unique characteristics. These also serve as labels.
On top of that there is several other ways to characterize people such as by the amount they weigh, the paleness of their size, their race, religion or just the easiest way which is by the way they smell. Why can’t we just be honest with people and refer to them as to what they portray themselves as during interaction?
