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July 31, 2003Tattoos and piercings and holes, oh my!
I just found a quote online that sums up my thoughts on excessive piercing and/or tattooing. It's from The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan.
"A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different."
People are free to wear what they want and adorn their bodies as they see fit. However, I can't help but feel that a lot of people use an intentionally altered appearance as an easy out--it "forces" society to look at them askew, which then facilitates the altered individual's sneering contempt for the mainstream (y'know, the sell-outs, suits, and squares). I'd rather my counterculture subversives look like Young Republicans, thank you very much. That way, they have to back up their worldview with something more substantial than leopard-print hair or a mug full of metal.
Posted by patrick at July 31, 2003 03:49 PM
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