There is no greater anesthetic than sport.
There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized ambience in public spaces. Regarding the homeless, this is not merely for aesthetic reasons because the anesthetic is not merely unappealing. It presents a spectacle of disorder and decay that becomes a contagion.
Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and cut and drink because you need an anesthetic and it works. For awhile. But then the anesthetic turns into poison and by then it's to late because you are maintaining it now,straight into your soul. It is rotting you and you can't stop.
The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
I need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water.
Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
The drug ketamine, used as a 'dissociative' anesthetic, can produce subjective reports of conscious awareness outside the body, as can various other psychoactive drugs.
Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
