Manufacturing reasons

It is so much easier to change a word, a name, a story, than it is to change an idea, an action, or a  belief.

Society sanitizes words to make them more palatable, but as long as a need remains for special words, the situations from which they arose, still exist.

As long as we are counting, categorizing, naming, distinguishing something as unique, different, strange, needing special consideration, that situation still is.

People have always been wary of differences.

Not understanding something causes us to draw together into similar groups and it is when we begin to categorize our differences instead of our similarities that we set ourselves up for the long haul of ignorance and loss.

There are so many obstacles already in this world and each of them keeps us from finding the cure for cancer, the way to fight viruses, the way to feed the world wholesome food, the knowledge to live together in peace, the ability to live in the utopia earth could be.

Manufacturing more reasons to keep these things at bay by pretending the color of person's skin, the nationality they are born to, the person they choose to love, the size of their body, or it's shape, or any of a thousand other surface differences, makes any real difference in our basic humanity as human beings, keeps us all suffering.

There are people out there who still believe these things do matter and until we find a way to educate them, their ignorance holds us all back.  Changing a word may draw attention to the fact that things are changing, but it also indicates that we have a long way to go.