I don’t know if it’s due to our ‘at-your-fingertip’ ability to look things up in an encyclopaedic instant via our smartphones, whether it’s borne from our sanitised, social media-worthy rendering of life through pictures, or even if it’s the result of something else altogether that I’m simply missing. Whatever it may be, it has led to the increasingly restrictive development of a never-ending need to quantify, classify and pigeonhole almost every single facet of life.
I’m not talking here of science, of the discovery of chemical elements or the biological taxonomies that allow us to understand the living world that surrounds us.
