“Previous studies have shown that tattooed individuals are more likely to engage in risky behaviors, such as unprotected sex, theft, violence and alcohol consumption, compared to people without tattoos.”

I just read this in a news article. Bring it, risky behaviors, I love my tattoo.

cayday:

So I’m reading this article for my class and it’s making so much sense that it almost makes me want to cry. I mean, this is our society.

“Ads have long promised us a better relationship via a product: buy this and you will be loved. But more recently they have gone beyond that proposition to promise us a relationship with the product itself: buy this and it will love you. The product is not so much the means to an end, as the end itself.”

“Because of the pervasiveness of this kind of message, we learn from childhood that it is far safer to make a commitment to a product than to a person, far easier to be loyal to a brand. Many end up feeling romantic about material objects yet deeply cynical about other human beings.”

“The addict is the ideal consumer. Ten per cent of drinkers consume over sixty per cent of all the alcohol sold.”

This is so heartachingly true, it breaks my heart.