Jul. 9th, 2012

Tattoos

Jul. 9th, 2012 11:33 am
monk222: (Noir Detective)
“Tattoos used to mean you lived outside the law; now tattoos mean you’ve been at a mall.”

-- Penn Jillette

That could be true. I don't live outside the law, and neither do I go to malls, and I am entirely free of tattoos. It's just one of the great many cultural turnings that I have never caught onto in my minimalist zen life. The last cool thing I got into was Elvis in my childhood, and it seems to be enough for me - the extent of my rebellion! True, as with tattoos, Elvis, too, became very mainstream. But that seems to be the way of American and Western culture: everything gets absorbed into the mainstream. Of course, some might say 'bastardized' rather than 'absorbed', but so be it.

Tattoos

Jul. 9th, 2012 11:33 am
monk222: (Noir Detective)
“Tattoos used to mean you lived outside the law; now tattoos mean you’ve been at a mall.”

-- Penn Jillette

That could be true. I don't live outside the law, and neither do I go to malls, and I am entirely free of tattoos. It's just one of the great many cultural turnings that I have never caught onto in my minimalist zen life. The last cool thing I got into was Elvis in my childhood, and it seems to be enough for me - the extent of my rebellion! True, as with tattoos, Elvis, too, became very mainstream. But that seems to be the way of American and Western culture: everything gets absorbed into the mainstream. Of course, some might say 'bastardized' rather than 'absorbed', but so be it.

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