The Luddite tells an interesting story about a drug.
Apparently Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind isn't as fictional as we might hope. There are drugs now being tested that strip away the pain of traumatic memories. I haven't suffered any major trauma, and wouldn't want to say whether someone should or shouldn't block out the memories of a truly horrific event. But the fact that we might be able to gives me pause.
Because I expect we'd start blocking out any pain, no matter how major. And end up in a Brave New World, where we live our lives in a drug-enduced stupor of mild pleasure.
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