Seeing somme 2000+ year old earrings at the museum got me thinking. How did we our ancestor started thinking Let’s poke a hole in your ear, and then keep a piece of silver inside to make-sure the hole stay open Already by today standard’s it sometimes feel a bit crazy.
Bonus question, how did they even prevented infection/allergies. Even today, people still have allergies/infection from earring. But in an era before modern hygiene and medecine, how wasn’t it more dangerous ?
Probably a mix of drugs and crazy got it started and then it became like the lambchop song. Just sheer inertia. “Tradition” is just dumb cultural inertia.
They’re called “memes.”