-ism and -ist have become such in things! Talk of equality, you are commun-ist. Talk of investment, you are capital-ist. Talk of reason, you are rational-ist. Talk of religion, you are spiritual-ist. Talk of surroundings, you are environmental-ist. Talk of choice, you are existential-ist. Talk of theology, you might as well be fundamental-ist. In fact, you do not even have to talk. Say yes, and you are conform-ist. Say no, you are non-conform-ist. Say nothing, you are invariably strateg-ist. Every other person you happen to encounter seems to be scraping layers off your existence to determine where to put you in, as if, this world has become such a huge biology laboratory. There are jars all around. Jars labelled. Jars shelved. Jars filled with formalin to preserve vertebrate samples. And you happen to be just another possible specimen being investigated for dominant traces of a particular kind so that the label may be determined before you are preserved for future reference, if at all required.

Such soaked existence!

Thankfully, children still make paper boats and paint butterflies.