"Master, why is that great stupidity, the self-damaging like tattooing still extant in our so-called civilised society?"
"For this, to understand auto-mutilation, it is necessary to know that all individuals of all species, have a memory of the species. It is phylogenesis which = ontogenesis. Without it, a young chick would not know that it should grow wings, feathers. But it also ideates behaviour in animals and Man, so-called instinct. It is an un-freedom, an enslavement if you wish. Only the Man-typical freedom, his 'choice' could annul these shackles. With regard to auto-mutilation now, ages ago, the Chief became god-like. Thus, the pleps wanted to imitate his scars and other deformations gathered during his eventful life. So it was that they scarred themselves too. It evolved into coloured patterns, instead of the original 'infections'. That is tattooing now. A primitive force that yokels cannot withstand. They have no Mind to overrule it. Read Spencer's Essays for this. It all is the Way, is Nature, but then from hundreds of millenia past, and of stupid, cripled minds."