addition is an interesting typo because essentially whats going on is brainwashing for the purpose of eliminating an addiction, and we have massive brainwashing infrastructure around substituting many phrases in the place of "addiction" although addition would not have been the first choice LOL.
We have enormous budgets trying to brainwash us to buy laundry detergents and cars and vote for politicians but as we know from extensive work in those fields that the individual susceptibility to brainwashing varies quite a bit by individual, demographic, culture, etc. It would not be a excessive extension to propose that anti-addiction brainwashing is likewise highly unpredictable.
The good side of alcoholism being uncurable is if we found a brainwashing method to perfectly eliminate it, the technique or pill or meme or whatever would be abused for consumerism and political purposes into an amazing dystopia. Admittedly a sober alcoholism free dystopia, but a horrific dystopia none the less.
We have enormous budgets trying to brainwash us to buy laundry detergents and cars and vote for politicians but as we know from extensive work in those fields that the individual susceptibility to brainwashing varies quite a bit by individual, demographic, culture, etc. It would not be a excessive extension to propose that anti-addiction brainwashing is likewise highly unpredictable.
The good side of alcoholism being uncurable is if we found a brainwashing method to perfectly eliminate it, the technique or pill or meme or whatever would be abused for consumerism and political purposes into an amazing dystopia. Admittedly a sober alcoholism free dystopia, but a horrific dystopia none the less.