[Ezekiel]

There’s an unfortunate and bizarre ‘overkill’ going on with all the ink.

I suspect it is related to a natural human need for meaning and connection that continually eludes the seekers.

Stamp, stamp, stamp — kind of like plastic surgery addictions. One is never enough, on and on.

The culture is one of moving goalposts, from the socially acceptable rebellious zones to the yikes zones, but few catch on to the manipulation and its destructive nature. If they do, it might be long after the permanent damage is done.

“Normalized” destruction. It’s everywhere.

[rlmorel]

I had never had a problem with someone getting a tattoo up until around 30 years ago, and after that, it just seemed to explode. I thought a tattoo on the deltoid or the forearm was no big deal (because I grew up in a Navy family, and saw a LOT of men with tattoos)

But this thing where people uniformly cover their entire arms, legs, necks, backs, whatever with tattoos...well, it kind of repels me. But I keep in mind that the appearance does not always reflect the actual person, though the decision to cover themselves

LINK: Blue Collar Logic-The Case Against Tattoos

I think this man in the video frames the issue brilliantly, and is done from a practical, non-religious viewpoint. (I note that he does say "If you are one of those adults with a single tattoo on your arm (or something like that) this video is not for you.")

When I obtained the link, I saw the very first comment was: "...As a 50 year old veteran without one tattoo, I tell folks that tattoos are so over done these days, that the counterculture are now folks that are tattoo free..."

I kind of feel that, as both a conservative, and an un-tattooed person!