Tatt'd

Last night, Joe came back early from New Jersey and we decided to pull an all-nighter. We walked through Union Square to East Village, to Saint Mark's Place, where I mentioned I could get a tattoo. Joe decided Studio 33 looked legit so we walked in, 15 minutes before they closed. I asked for a heart tattoo on my lip, but the artist said he doesn't like giving those, that they might not be quality. So I thought, okay, I'll get the other piece I've been thinking about. We found the writing on Google and talked about the sizing and placement and bam! It was set. My artist goes by Ping, and he was chill and great to me.

Design completely stolen from:

I listened to Taking Back Sunday, The Roots, Circa Survive, Kaskade, and a few others here and there. While getting my tattoo, I was saying prayers in terms of what that thing means to me, the promises I made to G-d and myself, and hopes I shared for the future. I'm happy I did it, and I think more are coming.

Some philosophy:

According to the egalitarian, justice can only exist within the coordinates of equality. This basic view can be elaborated in many different ways, according to what goods are to be distributed—wealth, respect, opportunity—and what they are to be distributed equally between—individuals, families, nations, races, species. Commonly held egalitarian positions include demands for equality of opportunity and for equality of outcome. It affirms that freedom and justice without equality are hollow and that equality itself is the highest justice.

At a cultural level, egalitarian theories have developed in sophistication and acceptance during the past two hundred years. Among the notable broadly egalitarian philosophies are socialism, communism, anarchism, left-libertarianism, and progressivism, all of which propound economic, political, and legal egalitarianism, respectively. Several egalitarian ideas enjoy wide support among intellectuals and in the general populations of many countries. Whether any of these ideas have been significantly implemented in practice, however, remains a controversial question. One argument is that liberalism provides democracy with the experience of civic reformism. Without it, democracy loses any tie─argumentative or practical─to a coherent design of public policy endeavoring to provide the resources for the realization of democratic citizenship.


Much love,
Jessica