Neutral Resocialization

I know I haven’t posted for eons as I have been thinking of something to write about. This phrase got stuck in my head for days. I read this off some novel. It was a very interesting idea. It was rather technical citing things like “Neural Resocialization through memory overlay”. It’s quite a mouthful but what it basically means is brainwashing through replacing old memories with new and making someone fit to be reintroduced into society. That was when I started thinking; can brainwashing really replace our instincts? Can brainwashing remove fear, imagination and emotion? We were all born with our basic instincts, can brainwashing really remove that?

We were born with 2 things hard-coded into our genetic and subconscious systems. One was that we were put here to survive (obviously). The other was that we were put here to replicate which in turns supports our first purpose which is to survive by ensuring the survival of the species. Our instincts allow us to protect ourselves against any aggressor and to bonk a female or females who are fertile and have increased child-bearing abilities. Fear and horniness seem to go very well together. Both work very well in ensuring the ultimate survival of the human race. And if you think about it, this pair of instincts has kept us alive for a pretty long time. The “long time” is relative to my relatively short 80 years of existence. Although we haven’t survived for long and I’m sure we wouldn’t live long judging by the rate we’re killing each other and destroying our own home, we’ll live a few million more years, and let’s hope by then we’ll have become smarter than to excrete in our own home.

Now that we have the concept of “Neural Resocialization” that supposedly tweaks a man’s mind such that he is not only primed for any purpose he is made to do, he’s more or less domesticated. See what “Neural Resocialization” does is that it primes you to listen to orders, to have no conscience, to basically become a killing machine that can be turned on and off. Of course he doesn’t have to kill stuff, but usually they use them “Neural Resocialites” for those purposes. But after all that I’ve said, to remove a man’s ability to think and reason for himself, to remove the very instincts that allow him to survive, what will become of him? Will he be a man, or just a domesticated beast of burden? To remove his freedom, to remove his identity, to make him just another asset, another commodity, but he himself totally unaware, and serving a cause that is not his own, to die for something that is not his responsibility, to live a life like that, a little disturbing? Not to mention that, the army is doing the exact same thing to many people around the world. Is the idea, a little too close for comfort?