Subculture goods and body modification. Piercings, hair dye, tattoos — signals parents did not choose.
It is an entire industry.
It exists to relieve Become someone distinguishable from the parents. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
No company in this map is recorded selling this yet — often because the provider is a family, a community or the state rather than a business.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionSubculture goods and body modification
- FrictionBecome someone distinguishable from the parents
- Life phaseAdolescence
- Rooted inBelonging
- Rooted inStatus