IMHO the proliferation of tattoos are the semiotics of our Western civilisation in decay; aka an attack on the Imago Dei!
I would liken them to an initiation ritual into a gang of Faustian narcissists whose raison d'être is to degrade the heretofore potent symbols of the Judeo-Christian worldview, like an iconoclast who would take a sledgehammer to Michelangelo's Pietà or a graffiti vandal spray 'tagging' Seurat's La Grande Jatte and then posting their diabolical activities on TikTok thinking that they are 'speaking truth to power' or 'taking it to the man' or some other such vacant sophism intended to boost their 'followers' count.
Jumping out of the hot air balloon of Western Civ sans a comparable philosophical parachute might produce a momentary illusion of 'freedom' to the fool but the inevitable congress with terra firma will deliver reality back with a bang not a whimper!
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