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.
You're a good human, Kiki. You can think and act for yourself.
Yes, people stare at events happening right in front of them, as if they're watching a tv show, and they don't do anything except stare. It gets on my nerves. I've seen school fights and people being bullied, and they all just stare, and I've gotten so angry by no one doing anything about it, that I go in and break up the fight, putting myself in danger of getting hurt, but right when I do that, all these mindless idiots just bumble away back to what they were doing, because the show is over. All these tv shows wait for a hero or someone brave to arrive and save the day. Some authority figure. In some instances, that's okay. In others, it's like everyone can be doing something to help, there's like 10 to 20 of you, but no one wants to take the first step to help. They just have to do something.
So because ideas are passed between human beings no one should hold ideas? I disagree. I think this brand of thinking primarily derives from social isolation. Think about a world with no ideas. How would it function?
I think this applies to nearly everything. Humans behave like sheep in almost every situation.
e.g. when something is happening to someone else in public, people just stare. No one calls the police or intervenes or does anything. I get people are busy but if someone falls down you don't just walk over them and ignore them. It's only the occasional person who will do something to help. Most people just follow whatever the crowd is doing. I think it's called bystander syndrome.
I don't do that. Obviously if I was in direct danger I wouldn't do anything but if I can help without being in danger I'll do something e.g. a little girl fell out of the church door when the primary school children were coming out of their Easter service. The teacher said 'where's your mum?' The mum wasn't there and the rest of the mummies just stared. So I said 'I'm not her mum but I know her' and picked the little girl up and comforted her while the other mums just stared. FFS.
I've gone off on a tangent again, haven't I. But humans are generally sheep tbh.
Sometimes you just have to accept that the majority are stupid.
Which is why I no longer vote.
and another one of my situation fitting jokes:
It is only logical.
thank you, it is my secret talent, giving nicknames, i have always struggled to remember names of everything and everybody, giving them numbers wouldn't be seen well, hence nicknames :P
I just look at someone now with a tattoo, and think, "Oh dear, I hope you won't be as disappointing in other areas of your life." Ideas are much the same as tattoos. What most people regard as ideas are only the scripts and talking points they've learned from an internet echo chamber, or hacks in the mainstream media. Only a tiny majority of humans are ever able to generate original thoughts, independant of bias or indoctrination.
They must have a strange idea of what it is to be working class. Working class people don't all cover themselves in tattoos.
I just look at someone now with a tattoo, and think, "Oh dear, I hope you won't be as disappointing in other areas of your life."
Clueless Copy-Cat Syndrome. That's a good way of describing it.
I think it doesn't matter what it is, or who started it, though it usually starts with someone well known When they see it more and more popular, something I call clueless copycat syndrom kicks in and replaces any remaining inhibition with desire, and they want to have it too. that syndrom makes them work the same as others as well, they start new job, and immediately start working like next person, and continue like that.
I would say that the state department does and hollywood culturally. But the average Joe in Virginia or somewhere. Probably has a lot in common with you or i.
Yes, but they dictate the Global Narrative.
Never mind mate. You know now. And of course there are different rules for sitting in your own house alone. haha. And thank god for them.
Some american people are alright. It's a vast, vast nation. I think people are mainly people the world over. There are ones who are appealing and there are one that aren't.
I know; from coming to work seventeen years ago without showering. D'oh!
You do have to wear something. When people won't talk to people for their appearance though. That's when it gets more serious. Their are even people beaten to death for belonging to tribes. I would say it was more important to smell nice when you're out and about. In terms of social graces.
The American tail is wagging the British dog.
That may have something to do with it. Seeing as it was beloved of sailors originally. There are also working class people who dress like middle class people. All of it is trivial balls in the grand scheme of life.