I’ve got some beef. It has weighed heavily on me for sometime and I just want to know who gets to define things? Here’s where the beef comes from, there are things called scientists, and they create categorizations for things in our world. This organization of the world’s chaos has been a practice of humanity since Aristotle (probably way before him too). However, somehow we end up with crazy shit like pizza being considered a vegetable (cause of tomato sauce) or, even worse, watermelon being categorized as vegetable. That’s right, in the great state of Oklahoma, the humble watermelon is considered a vegetable – why… no one may ever know. And if you are wondering if the watermelon was made the state’s vegetable back in the 1800s, no… Oklahoma’s state congress just decided to vote and make it the state vegetable in 2007.
Now, I am not one to be bent out of shape for categorizing the world. I believe we don’t really need definitions around every little thing in society. However, if we are going to put something in a specific category, we really should follow some form of designation.
So, who gets to define things? Law makers or the scientists who hold higher level degrees in the field. I am going to go with the scientists, cause congress is playing too fast and loose with the designation of a watermelon to really be effective in a situation that is more serious.