Assigning labels to things or events inevitably involves some subjective judgement and it is often unnoticed or unacknowledged as such. It's also shaped deeply

Assigning labels to things or events inevitably involves some subjective judgement and it is often unnoticed or unacknowledged as such. It's also shaped deeply by the observers own experience. So when I see references to value-laden words like decadence, it usually says more about the author/speaker than it does about the thing in question.