Red Pill, Blue Pill, One Pill, Two Pill

I really have to wonder about the priorities of today’s American in terms of well-being. It's monstrously overdone and trite, but we really are a society of pill-swillers. There seems to be a capsule for every ill. Do you have to super-size your daily meals at fast-food franchises while simultaneously bemoaning your body resembles Buddha more than some Greek Deity? Take a pill, because you're entitled to an easy, effortless solution. Is your child more energetic than you'd care to deal with? No problem, tranq the crotch-dropping and blame it on a disorder or syndrome. Have a pain? Take a pill. Gas? Take a pill. Constipated? Take a pill. Explosive diarrhea? Take a fast-dissolve pill.

Not that there are not legitimate cases. My point is that, it seems the very first thing people look toward to solve a complaint is a pill. Sheesh, if there was a pill people could take that guaranteed they'd get a date and laid, the manufacturer would make a mint. Oh wait, such a pill does exist; Rohypnol. It's that whole consent thing that gets in the way of it being a global craze.

Anti-depressants and anti-syndrome drugs keep coming to the fore like denials after a frat party. Damn near every bloody one carries sexual side-effects. So the underlying subtext in the collective societal hive mind is that you can have sex or you can be healthy. Hmmm. No, Lanius, you're just being paranoid. There's no way that cultural prevalence of a certain technology and its conditions would imprint itself on a society. When operating systems exhibit some instability, it's always a surprise. Buying a game and then having to make payments to continue to play it is utterly novel. It's completely inconceivable that anyone would integrate a notion that sex is less important than any other aspect of health.

Even if it was, you can just take a pill. Not that such a thing is like unto free-basing cocaine to cancel out the spike of black-tar heroin they shot up earlier. No gap of logic in that one. You bet.

That's healthy, right. No one would market something ultimately unhealthy on the basis of profit.

What makes me twitch is just how many people aren't bitching about this. I've stabilized my mood, but now I can't orgasm. My joints no longer ache, but I'd rather play disc golf than have a tryst in the bedroom. What does it say about us that our sexuality is so readily hobbled? What does it reveal of our priorities when "sexual side-effects" are so universal?

Now I need to return to extolling the various virtues of non-prescription "sexual enhancement" pills.