Published on 12, July, 2020
I realise I am middle aged and I that grew up in a world in which only a minority of men had tattoos, and they were either sailors, builders or thugs. Then, around about 15 years ago, David Beckham, famous footballer, gets a tattoo—followed by a string of other footballers, so-called celebrities and media non-entities, all proclaiming they are expressing their 'individuality' or 'rebelling'. Soon afterwards every young man and woman has covered his or her body in them, all believing they too are expressing their individuality or rebelling. And yet, like lemmings advancing towards a cliff-edge, or sheep flocking with the herd across fields, they all look almost the same, that is apart from having different amounts of these vulgar eyesores, or slightly different colourings to them, they all still look virtually the same (at least to me). I see no individuality in these people. Or any spirit of rebellion. I can't understand this herd-mentality. What is it that makes people all try so desperately hard to copy one another in a bizarre attempt to appear different from one another. It doesn't make sense. You would think to be different or rebel, you'd do the opposite to what everyone else is doing. And what is this craving to emulate celebrities or media personalities? Do they imagine they are better than they are—smarter, nicer, more charismatic? The unfathomable sheep-like behaviour aside, I can't understand what, apart from mental illness, what would drive a person to inflict such damage on their largest and most vital organ. The very idea of deliberate mutilation horrifies me.
there are so many humans now that whatever anyone does millions of others have done too.the more humans we spawn the less each individual is worth due to less to go around, also due to more humans meaning less care if one dies compared to when we only had 1 mill pops a single life was worth more and death and loss of a single human was more harmful, with 8 billion humans we are individually worthless and our lives no longer have worth and our deaths will be shrugged off.we will get more humans in the future, this situation will become worse to the point individuality and single human worth will be a long dead idea as single humans will be insignificant infact millions of humans will be nothing in the future when we have trillions of humans. individuality will die more and more with each increase in population to the point individuality is no longer a thing and instead we will become more of a hive mind, of which we kinda already are as humanity does seem very hive minded now. we will evolve into something less human and more ant if we carry on and not a single one of our lives will matter, not even if billions died all at once wed be so many it wouldnt matter and wouldnt be a thing to even blink at.the future bears the death of the individual, and the rise of collectivism and hive minds.
You make a good point that the more humans there are, the less each life is worth.
I think that either, humans will keep breeding and we'll have to move half of them to a different planet e.g. Mars. Or there will be a huge catastrophe, either a meteor will hit Earth and wipe most of us out, or a fatal disease like the Black Death will arise and kill most of us. The Black Death killed about 70% of Europeans, I can see that happening again.
So either humans will keep increasing or most will be killed in a mass event soon. I don't think the Earth can sustain us for much longer.