It is about time these cultural vampires in
the mainstream media woke up to the fact that tattoos are not some passing fad or phase.
Admittedly tattoos have been getting a fair bit of press lately in part driven
by high profile celebrities flashing their ink in public. Or shows such
as Miami Ink with their carefully chosen tattoo artists making the whole
tattooing process look like some kind of modern alchemy much the same way that
thousands of wannabes wanted to become DJ's in the late 1990's when the DJ was
revered as some kind of shaman.
I believe this is only part of the story. I
would venture to say that the main reason for the massive increase in people
wanting tattoos goes much deeper. Believe or not the vast majority of people
get tattoos not in some vain attempt to be part of the crowd or cool but
because part of them recognizes the deeper significance of tattoos and need for
something beyond the mundane. To the tired and cynical hack this hunger for
meaning is completely lost on them. Possibly because they cannot see beyond the
vacuous consumer driven culture they are trapped in.
They fear anyone who is not part of their
mindless consumerist culture. Fear is what it really is no matter how subtle
its disguise. It shines through in everything they write from the cliche ridden
nonsense disguised as journalism in the culture section of mainstream
newspapers to the ultra conservative fundamentalists who warn of the evils and
regrets of those who get tattoos. To them anyone who steps outside this mass
hallucination known as consensus reality is immediately singled out from the herd and subject to
ridicule.
It is the same form of mind control which brainwashes kids into accepting
everything they are taught in school and told never to question authority or
the massive lies which pass as history. No wonder people grow up to be mindless
sheep when they are indoctrinated from such an early age. History really has
become a set of lies agreed upon to keep people in their places and maintain
the status quo.
The funny thing is that once you step outside consensus reality you begin to see how shaky the ground is upon
which their spectacular lies are built. The people who are controlling the
instruments of power such as the mainstream media know this and this is the
reason why they use ridicule to suppress anyone who dares to challenge the
official set of lies.
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Getting tattoos used to be a form of
rebellion. In many ways it still is to people who feel as though they are
constantly bombarded with advertisements for designer labels and sucked into
believing they need this or that to make their lives more meaningful. Well
guess what? We have had consumerist culture shoved in our faces since the
1940's and it still hasn't made us any happier as human beings.
