Tattoos
22nd June 2014
Freeberg has some thoughts.
One of the ways we might assess that a society has become soft and spoiled, is the observation that its demands have begun to take on the profile of the supplies. In other words, lots of people “need” something simply because it’s there to be had. What’s been going on with tattoos would be an apt illustration of this. The tattoo ink artist paying the rent by swiping the credit cards held by guilted and bullied small-em moms, ultimately, is a solution in search of a problem. Kids want the tattoos because the tattoos are there. And all the other kids have them. Because they’re there.
I make it a general practice to steer clear the things indulged in by the majority of the criminal population — tatoos, smoking, recreational drugs. I figure, maybe they know something I don’t know, and ought to avoid.