Due to the need to categorize and label everything that exists around us, small variations to something causes it to become something new and to be relabeled. For example, cacio e pepe is a pasta dish that is made up of only three key ingredients; black pepper, cheese (typically pecorino), and pasta. The sauce itself is simply an emulsification of the cheese with water, with the starch from the cooked pasta acting as an emulsifier. Yet if the dish were to be slightly altered and egg is to be added at the end, now you have a carbonara dish. By adding slight variations new dishes are formed and labeled. This applies to various situations, but there comes a point where we ask ourselves “why are we still labeling things?”. When does it get to a point where we say “this is cacio e pepe with egg”, versus “this is carbonera”. What lies the reason as to why we have to shorten and categorize things and when is that line drawn? This leads to the reason why majors like Biology or Chemistry, require so much time to understand and become qualified to lead in these kinds of fields, because it becomes a point where everything is labeled and categorized, and these take time to learn and memorize. I think it’s interesting that as time goes on, we will continue to categorize and relabel certain things, to a point where colleges may need an extra year or two in the future to finish a degree, because we’ve come a long way with our labels.
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