Technology and Its Discontents

I really hope this works. I was unable to log on to the last blog I created, and it was such a great rant.
Now I see that Pluto has been down-graded to a dwarf planet. Isn't that just a euphamism for asteroid with a pituitary problem?
What does this new status tell us about Pluto that we didn't already know? Does it change what Pluto is made of, alter its gravitational pull, or re-route its orbit?

Humans can't seem to understand anything unless they label it first.The whole process of language is arbitrary, but it's the only way we have to describe abstract ideas, and ideas are what make us able to explore our surroundings and name them. We think in words, labels, and we are bound by them.

The flaming gas ball that provides warmth and energy to us is the sun, and all those other specs in the night sky are just stars. Why stars? Because when they were named they appeared to be much smaller than our sun, our moon, and certainly smaller than our Earth.
We didn't re-name stars when we realized that they could be as big as or many times bigger than our own sun.
Bigger telescopes, more powerful computers, and passwords you didn't type in quite right. They're all so frustrating.
One wonders what Pluto we'll be called next season.