An aesthetic life not only requires constant stimulation, it requires ever more powerful constant stimulation. There's a reason decadents either wind up old, bitter, and jaded or find God or something else to give their life a meaning beyond the moment.
The hedonist/aesthete/addict all suffer without often admitting to it:
The need for another pleasure, because it is fleeting.
You rarely find people of faith suffering such continual desire for a new stimulation.
An aesthetic life not only requires constant stimulation, it requires ever more powerful constant stimulation. There's a reason decadents either wind up old, bitter, and jaded or find God or something else to give their life a meaning beyond the moment.
The Guns And Roses song “Mr.Brownstone” (about heroin addiction) sums it up nicely:
“I used to do a little
But the little wouldn’t do it
So the little got more and more
I just keep trying to get a little better
A little better than before…..”
They never “get better”.