The Ars Technica article this refers to is ostensibly about depression. The tagline is particularly interesting: “Device zaps brain when it detects neural activity associated with irrational thoughts.” Note it says “irrational thoughts,” not “sad thoughts” or “depressive thoughts.”
Hmm… What other types of thoughts might be defined as “irrational” and zapped out of existence??
i saw the article on how they now can stop anxiety as well, and immediately thought: “well, i guess they can produce anxiety in people as well then”.
But then again , that i would think has been on the table for decades.
… Yep Sphinx, old news … see the film “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and Walker Percy’s novel The Second Coming.
Yes, they’ve been talking about technological mind control for a long time… What caught my attention here was the way eradicating “irrational” (non-politically-correct) thoughts is being tied to it. Open calls and oblique suggestions, as here, for removing non-politically-correct thoughts – or people – from society is a more recent phenomenon in the U.S., at least as far as its coverage in the lamestream media.