Extreme Until I Scream

The absurd appetite people have for various forms of stimulus is growing beyond the ability of a single form of media to produce enough adrenalin to satisfy these cravings. At the point that a 3rd generation of beings that have been raised by the bi-sensual babysitter we know as a television, even the allures of the internet are waning in the ability to provide the fix for mindless stimuli. Everything is now extreme as a mandate from the endorphin junkies that spend endless hour looking for additional ways to overload their ability to process information collected through every nerve receptor in their bodies. All industries are gravitating in the direction to acquire a piece of this market that is so overwhelmingly lucrative these days.

Desensitization is the process of increasing a persons tolerance for accepting various forms of stimuli. Like the professional wrestler that gets hit in the forehead with a steel chair, they already know what it is going to feel like so they do not have the initial shock associated with this impact as a person who has not. Even a roller coaster loses it's attraction after 50 or so times of testing ones ability to contain their lunch while trying to achieve the feeling of near demise. The entertainment industry has accepted the quest to push the media that produces higher levels of sensory input many years ago exploiting the likes of Hitchcock and the series of Bond movies. As a result of the profitability of continual testing the audience for incontinence was acknowledged, the refreshment providers decided they needed a piece of this action.

Soft drink moguls began to invest heavily into various forms of entertainment from movies to amusement parks. If it will raise your heart rate, Coca Cola and Pepsi will definitely be making an investment of some kind if legally possible. The suggestion to those seeking excitement that caffeine will enhance the overall experience by stimulating the users neural receptors so they can absorb even more of the stimulating signals being fed into the cranial head quarters for the central nervous system. Mixing in a large amount of purified carbohydrates in the form of candy and combining that with an intense flavoring propels the addict into a physical and mental state nearing ecstasy and euphoria. Continually increasing the quantities of the pungent and sweetness contained in each morsel of artificial gratification has caused the refreshment industries to invest heavily into new ways chemically shock your system into a mild panic.

This has spawned a new level of intensity in products available to the consumer to enhance the sensations and stimulations. Candy makes began sneaking caffeine into some items that have enough flavor to mask the bitterness of the drug. Beverage manufacturers began to experiment with alternative medicine additives or herbal supplements as the peddlers of drugs yet to be outlawed refer to them to enrich the level or arousal delivered from the consumption of their products. Even the natural products like coffee are being altered to include some type of booster with the example provided by Revv. How much can a persons body stand to be stimulated before their health and well being come into question?

The rise in obesity related diseases is overwhelming. Diabetes is going to impact you, if not directly, or the person next to you within the next few years. High cholesterol is also the result of consuming products that provide that immediate reward for you having slid through another day of work with minimal effort. The barrage of advertising that is geared to inflate your declining self-perception while suggesting that if you consume more of a specific product that you will achieve and unnatural degree of fabulousness that you could never reach without it. The visual evidence they provide would suggest that you could be the singular perpetuator of your species elevating you to the status of a minor deity in the very least. In truth, these suggestions will lead to morbid levels of reclusiveness and reduce ones capacity to reproduce additional consumers for the corporations which control your desires to exchange a portion of your wealth and health to sustain their profit margins.

The pharmaceutical companies have pitched their hats in to this arena as well. They have produced an overwhelming amount of pills and treatments to counteract the results of introducing all of the legally available narcotic like substances sold to those seeking the extreme experience. They have invented pills to artistically compensate for and modify your moods and behaviors so that you can continue to participate in the consumption all these indulgences. They have even resorted to producing medicines to restore ones desires and abilities to perform the acts of procreation because of the damage done by the "Whitman's Sampler" of chemicals that are introduced into your system with every gram consumed. This is a never ending cycle of wealth generation potential with the mere cost of the lives of a few who do not have the ability to resist the power of suggestion and the temptation to feel superior to the rest for only a brief period before crashing into a depressive fetal position.

The music has grown louder, faster, increasingly dissonant and increasingly syncopated to keep pace with the other forms of media to be indulged without regard to consequences. Extremities in expression have ebbed into all forms of art and have infiltrated nearly every form of sport that is of any interest to the living. Those who deliver these forms of spectacle have been force into utilizing substances that have been banned to the level of a felony in order to provide the highest level of performance and creativity. This leads into a topic that is best left for a later release of embittered sentiment about the disadvantages of being human. These are unparalleled attempts at achieving a deityship for reasons that transcend any form of intellectual reasoning ability from this dimension.

The moving picture market has been on a revival to retain it's lead in delivering edge of the seat experiences for the viewers. Through the evolution of the action flick the use of stunt crews has given way to animation and trickery to make the view believe they are seeing something that no normal creature in our universe could possibly do. The simulation of destruction of major cities, methods of transportation and even to the extreme of exploding bodies of what appears to be a person. The aural experience has also been enhance to make the spectator feel immersed in the sounds of the action simulating an additional dimension of stimulus into the presentation. With the need to continue the expansion of dimensions the mystical trickery of the visual cortex is injected by increase the rate at which the pictures are projected into your viewing zone eventually evolving into the ocular miracle of simulating the dimension of depth into the picture through stereography.

There are limits involved in these interactions between the pusher and user. These limits are not on the part of the provider but the thrill seeking purveyor of higher levels of stimulation. How much can a person absorb before they reach a condition of unrepairability likened to and egg of infamy and legend? This is the question that all of us who take every opportunity to indulge should ask ourselves. We cannot count on the parental supervision of those who make their livelihood from providing for us. My personal suggestion is to rush to determining your personal limits so that you can be prepared to dive in to the deep end so that you do not require a report from yours truly on how the experience was. To quote the master of extreme, Hunter S. Thompson, "Buy the ticket, ride the ride". I would like to add, make it extreme until I scream then do it again so I will be ready for a bigger portion of intensity before the next dose is delivered. Enjoy life while you have it.