America used to be a nation of solutions, but today we just want to know what to call "it". Why is American society so obsessed with labels?

because they make mankind feel superior when they (labels) are utilized. We love to put others down and we fear what we don't understand. We teach kindergartners to remember the "golden/silver rule"; but if adults could remember it, we wouldn't have as much chaos.

Have you ever seen the movie Arlington Road? The movie itself is about terrorism and there's a scene that really resonated with me. They go on to describe how someone felt after a specific terrorist act and most students felt afraid. Then they asked how they felt after they identified the attackers and the students said they felt better.

We feel safe because we know their name. We can say... see this one is different. We compartmentalize everything and in order to feel safe, we need to be able to identify something.

I like how it says we " latch onto fear". I feel our advances in technology has made life easier for us so we are essentially bored. We no longer have hunt for our food so we find other stuff to occupy ourselves with and over the years it's gradually gotten more and more tedious.