David Blaine is going to lose his mind.No, literally.The record holding magician and endurance artist began hanging by his feet in Central Park on Monday to complete a test of his endurance lasting 60 hours.Despite warnings Blaine received from his doctors of possible blindness, brain hemorrhaging and other serious medical conditions that could result from being suspended in the air for this amount of time, Blaine decided to go through with it.In past endurance self-tests, Blaine has been buried in a box for seven days without food, frozen himself in ice for two days and stood on top of a 90-foot pillar for 35 hours.He lived in a Plexiglas box for 44 days — without food of course — and he held his breath for more than 17 minutes.He faced organ failure, the inability to walk for 30 days, blood problems and other serious health issues.And for what? For the fame? For the proof that he’s invincible?First, seeing Blaine’s tests of the human condition and the lengths it can go to made me want to question why a human would go to such extremes to prove something by choice. I began to ask myself what America has been reduced to if this is how we get our cheap thrills.But then I realized Blaine’s actions don’t deserve such philosophical questions.And then I realized: Blaine is just plain dumb.Blaine is a man who the world is hailing for creating something to awe us, something for us to talk about and something to show us the impossible. In truth, Blaine is just an idiot.My fear isn’t that Blaine is going to die one day proving that the impossible is actually impossible. My fear is that he’ll go down in history doing it.My fear is that the attention we give him — the countless news reports and “oohs” and “ahhs” — will make a man famous for being reckless.If Blaine completes this feat, he will only go on to more dangerous and more ridiculous ones.At some point it has got to get old, or it has got to end.Would it be better for his well-being if the country lost interest? Or would he rather die as the infamous man who could do anything — until he couldn’t?Perhaps Blaine will continue to awe the world until he grows to a fulfilling old age and his life ends peacefully.Or maybe he’ll go down heroically during one of his greatest escapades.But it won’t be the way everyone expects it. For example, he is going to try to prove that he can hold his breath for an hour. And a shark is going to come eat him at the 59 minute mark.—-Contact Blake Stephens at [email protected]