Pioneer entrepreneur and programmer Dave Asbury may not seem different at first glance to anyone else's. Dave gets up from bed and takes his young children to school, then goes home and prepares himself a breakfast of coffee and butter. Then he goes to his office, reaches for one of the corners, pulls out several capsules of cans that look like drug cans, and then starts working. [1]
Here, everything seems normal, until we discover that the capsules he is taking are not really drugs, but drugs. We can not promise that Dave's use of these drugs is strange. Throughout human history, and even before civilizations existed, human narcotics were accompanied. For the damage that may lead to the individual to destruction, some found smuggled from the concerns of life and burdens, although the price they will pay for this high.
What is really strange is that what Dave and many others want to eat is a complete contrast to all of this; when swallowing these drugs every morning he does not want to run away from his reality; he just wants to indulge himself more. This reality and manipulating it for its benefit, would like to become smarter, more productive, richer. Dave's drugs are not cannabis or avionics, nor do they resemble any other common anesthetic. Dave deals with nootropics, or "smart" drugs.
Within the world of drugs "smart"
He did not have a chemical. C. Gergia said that the word he invented as the name of the Bristam drug he had installed at his laboratory in 1964 would become so common 60 years later. The name of this compound came from the combination of the Greek words "nos" which means the brain, "Tropin" which means "me", and made in his laboratory the first drug hoping to succeed in me the brain of the user. [2]
Like any other medicine, Gergia was designed as a treatment, and he hoped to help patients with brain and cognitive brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's in the elderly, and speech disorders in children. But most Nutrobex abusers are often very healthy individuals with no cerebral dysfunction and do not aim to treat themselves from a disease. [3]
Smart drug users also differ from those who use any other type of drug. They are not marginalized groups or young adults who are drugged in opaque dens or noisy parties. Nutrobex users are some of the world's top university students, Silicon Valley, a bastion of technology industries in San Francisco, USA. By taking drugs, most of which are primarily for people with cognitive disorders as a result of mental illness, these brilliant students and programmers want to enhance their ability to learn, concentrate and think creatively to become smarter, which appears to be already happening under the influence of these drugs.
Each drug has side effects that vary in severity, from mild things such as headaches to symptoms such as the severity of the illness you have taken for it
Vibe, a history student at a prestigious university in England, describes the influence of Nutrobex in her dialogue with the Guardian: "These drugs help you work, so you can get tickets for a longer time without distraction." You feel like wanting to go to the library on your own and do not even want to take Lunch break, look at the clock, it's 7 pm, but you're still able to keep going. " Johnny, a student at the same university, describes his first experiment with drugs. "I had a strange feeling. I remember sitting on the exam and thinking," That's terrible! My God! I feel like I'm going to lose consciousness, "but at the same time I could remember everything, whole paragraphs remembered by word of mouth.
All this looks really great, taking a few tablets in the morning gives you an extraordinary ability to work and think. However, as anyone who already has a drug knows, each drug has side effects ranging from mild things such as headaches to symptoms such as the severity of the illness you have taken, and additional drugs to treat. What are the side effects of nitropox?
There are not enough studies to answer this question, but many people's long-term experience with Nutroboxes has never been promising. Kate Miller tells her story with the drugs she began after a freshman year at the university to continue with her career. At first, everything looked great, I found that she could concentrate for long hours and work without fatigue until late at night, and yet, she managed to maintain a good social life. But not long after, the ugly face of Nutropox revealed itself: Kate had become addicted.
"I was fooling myself when I thought I could stay balanced while taking these drugs when I thought their benefits outweighed their harm, I began to increase the doses I was taking, and then I found myself spending long nights tossing in bed," says Troy Keith in her New York Times article. When I wake up the next morning, the first thing I do was extend my hand to eat the pills again. "My body began to get used to those drugs, and then I lost its effect, so I took more of the dose I used to eat if I found myself after that. I closed the alarm clock, turned into a wreck, always angry and exhausted for my ability to To communicate with the world. "
Kate arrived at a point where she found that her life was collapsing at all levels, and here her decision was to stop taking these drugs altogether. But what he did not tell anyone was that stopping in itself would be difficult. Nutrobex, like other drugs, leaves its users at the start of quitting it unarmed in front of a barrage of painful withdrawal symptoms. "I found myself sleeping during the meetings and I could not finish my work before the delivery date, and I began to feel very hungry and started to eat greedily," says Kate, "this disorder left me with a very fragile and sensitive brain chemistry. I did not increase my weight and delay in work, "It was hard for me to understand then that what he ordered was the symptoms of withdrawal, no one warned me about the symptoms of these side effects" [5].
Vibe and Johnny, the Taliban helped by the Notreobex during the exams, soon noticed their bad effects shortly thereafter. Phoebe began to feel a terrible pain in her stomach, and Jimmy felt that he had become too dependent on everything. Be in real need of it. But fortunately, before they went through Kate's bad experience, the Taliban completely abandoned the Nutrobex. Even Dave Asbury, an entrepreneur who has been consuming huge amounts of Nutrobex every morning and founded a coffee company mixed with these drugs, has been hit by Nutrobox for some foods he has been eating naturally for the rest of his life.
In a study in the scientific journal Neurology, researchers found that many of the drugs of Nutrobex cause side effects ranging in severity and severity between diarrhea, headache, dizziness and insomnia, even memory loss, identity disorders and motor dysfunction. The study also included a case study of four individuals between the ages of 17 and 28, who were sent to the emergency room in the hospital after being hit by a nervous breakdown. [6] Here, we find ourselves confronted with a more important question: Why do people with high levels of intelligence often resort to drugs that may add to their intelligence deeper dimensions, but in turn may have side effects that do not know how dangerous one is? [7]
Piercing the body: How far will you go to become successful?
The "biohackers" look at our bodies as the programmer or engineer may look at a computer looking for ways to develop it.
Tim Faris, the entrepreneur and author of the famous human development books, has no real fear or fear about the long-term side effects of Nutropox. "Just like an Olympian who is willing to do anything, even if he is five years old, to win the gold medal, he will think about it," he told CNN after talking about the pressure on entrepreneurs today. Any drugs that may be taken to become more intelligent. " [8]
"Creativity and high mental performance are the only two ways you can succeed in Silicon Valley," says Jeff Wu, a software engineer who created a company that specializes in the manufacture of Notreobox, "I'm more like technical and financial professionals than professional athletes. The only success for your team, product or project is to have a comparative advantage over your competitors. " "It is not only technical industries," Wu said. "To become smarter and more productive is to agree with modern standards of success." [9]
If you are willing to swallow drugs that have not been adequately researched without suffering from a real disease just to increase their ability to produce something strange, you have not heard the term and practices that include these drugs and many other strange practices: biohacking ".
Is there then the pursuit of success, what kind of happiness? Or is the summit nothing more than a glamorous picture of something really cool, cool and lonely?
Biohackers look at our bodies as the programmer or engineer may look at a computer looking for ways to develop it. They try, through ways that vary in their extremes, from intermittent fasting, to inject themselves with stem cells, to make their bodies and brains better, stronger, healthier . This may not at first appear to be a bad thing, who among us does not want to be the best possible version of itself? What is interesting about this is that their desire to develop their bodies and brains stands at the limit that makes these bodies and brains more productive, and does not take them to other aspects of life, where no one thought of body hackers, for example, in inventing a drug that becomes more willing to help others. Their plight. In the same vein, in front of the large number of people ready to use Nutrobics to increase their production capacity, neuroscientist Anders Sandberg found in a study that only 9% of people were willing to take drugs that made them more sympathetic or more good.
This growing abuse of Nutrobix and the willingness to manipulate the body's own formation in order to increase production is in itself a symptom of a civilized disease enveloping our world today: it is obsession with success at any cost. "In the 1960s, sedatives were known to be the small helper of mothers," says Carroll Gadwaller, a journalist for the Guardian, "but today, the Netrobucks is the small aid of capitalism. [10] Neurologist Anjan Chatterjee says: "People today know from the moment of their birth until their death, only running in a vigorous rat race, we are dominated by the feeling that there are a limited number of prizes on the horizon and that everyone is competing for it. Do anything until you win. " [11]
In this world governed by machines and numbers, we are also expected to make machines: machinery that wakes up in the morning and works tirelessly until evening falls, and everything is ultimately doomed to numbers. How successful you are is linked to what you produce every day, which will be translated at the end of the month to how much money you earn. Your salary or wealth is no longer a means to provide you with a decent life, but rather a kind of obsession. Everyone wants to become successful in a modern culture that values only material values and stigmatizes those who fail to test money. In such a culture, it is not surprising to find people willing to swallow unknown drugs side effects in order to become better. Is not this one way or another imposed on us all by modern culture today, working up to burning and losing some of the simplest pleasures of life just so that we live in a decent way and escape the stigma of failure? The question remains: Is there then the pursuit of success, what kind of happiness? Or is the summit nothing more than a glamorous picture of something really cool, cool and lonely?