Medium of pain
The subject of pain presents in every culture and the ideas of this phenomenon was developed through ages. Therefore the analysis of these ideas illuminates the whole society, its measure of humaneness, rationality, and civilization level. The pain is familiar to everyone as the initial personal experience, thereby it is specific to all living beings and thus the pain unites all of them. The pain could be considered as an ontological condition of existence. In present the essential changing of cultural strategy seems to be an actual challenge: one should not seek to overcome pain but rather adapt to it. The elimination and the oblivion of pain by means of chemicals, pharmacology and media technology lead to exacerbation.