a name is supposed to be a reflection of one's identity, a unique abstraction designed to encapsulate the totality of the bearer's ontology, therefore it is incredibly arbitrary to name a child or any other element before it has even been brought into the world
for instance native american tribes name their children after the first things they see or something equivalently retarded, so if you are born to a lakota tribe or some shit and the chief sees a 'cautious deer' and you end up growing up as an aggressive bully then for the rest of your existence your life shall be wrought with existential dissonance because your 'label' is not an accurate reflection of 'you' furthermore it will seem as if you are at fault for not matching your name instead of the fault being at the hands of whoever the myopic shit-for-brains who named you was so in this sense it seems as if it is an easily arguable proposition that pre-birth or at-birth names are 'deterministic' in a way because they create a mold into which the individual must fit lest they be burdened with the anguish of life
that or they will represent irony personified
a far better norm by which to abide would be one that sets the naming procedure to one that shields the notion of naming a child after a significant amount of time has elapsed since birth from the notion that such a notion would be socially unacceptable or for some reason philosophically repugnant. so if after like three years it turns out that yr infant sneezes a lot you could call him "sneezy" and all will peacefully coexist in monikerial harmony
this begs the question of what to call the person until the time is right to name him or her
i can imagine the question now casually strolling down the street y'know minding her business and all returning to work from her lunch break (i will personify it as female as to me it seems that if i am going to personify sentences then questions are more feminine whereas declarative sentences are masculine (i am not trying to be gender normative or anything that's just what i feel (ha ha just kidding the questions are girls because in real life girls are stupid and ask a lot of questions and the declarative sentences are guys because the guys answer the questions that the girls ask with unshakeable confidence and commanding authority)))
the question is smart, fashionable, young, on her way to a bright future, certainly won't let anything get in the way of her goals or ambitions, she's headed back to her work building with a stride in her step, her gaze inexorably fixed on the horizon, nothing can stop her now, oh fuck look a homeless dude, (the homeless dude represents this blog post,) this homeless dude is sick, poor, and starved, starved for food and attention
so this homeless guy, weakly hobbles towards her, his step ataxic, a glimmer of madness in his eyes, madness brought on by hunger,
he gets up real close to her face, she is somewhat off-put, since she was doing such a great job of walking back to her destination with such singular focus, it looked pretty bad-ass
he goes up to her and starts begging, begging for money or food or shelter
he is begging her
he is begging the question
what if people grow into their own name? As in their name is actually an environmental factor on how they grow.
ReplyDeleteI think names are usually general enough that no one is actually anguished because their personalities don't fit their names....unless this is coming from personal experience. then my opinion is total bullshit so just ignore me. Anyway, i think names in nature have very general meanings so that people have at least some degree of the qualities that the names describe lol
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