[Reubend]

I don't know what the book describes, but I'd like to hear more specifics. Until then, I'm going to assume that it's sensationalist hogwash.

> The same knowledge that helps us treat neurological disorders could be used to disrupt cognition, induce compliance, or even in the future turn people into unwitting agents.

Disrupting cognition is easy. But as far as I'm aware, we don't have any drugs to "induce compliance" and we're miles away from being able to turn people into "unwitting agents" purely on the basis of neuroscience.

[throwawayqqq11]

Combine a chemically impaired memory and the current media landscape to get neat little dystopia.

We already could have unknowingly produced and consumed such neuro modulators simply by selecting for consumer return. Frightening thought, because it fits the current reality timeline.

[blackoil]

Looking around. I don't know what feels worse; a drug that induced compliance or world is in general this stupid.