By WakeUpéiRe Tyler Durden.

The idea of “drugging the love out of you” is far from new. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World imagined a future society in which emotional bonds are chemically controlled to ensure social harmony and personal stability, raising timeless questions about autonomy, manipulation, and well-being.

A paper originally published through ora.ox.ac.uk—the University of Oxford’s research archive—and later peer-reviewed with involvement from the National Institutes of Health under the tenure of Mad Scientist Anthony S. Fauci M.D, explores the possibility of using biomedical interventions to suppress or eliminate romantic attachment. Titled “If I Could Just Stop Loving You: Anti-Love Biotechnology and the Ethics of a Chemical Breakup,“ the article considers whether certain forms of love—especially harmful or destructive ones—might be medically treatable. This, the most dystopian idea, clearly inspired by the novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931, and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are genetically engineered into an “intelligence”-based social hierarchy.

Aldous Huxley attended Balliol College at the University of Oxford, where he studied English Literature. He graduated with first-class honours despite a period of near-blindness caused by a staphylococcal infection. While at Oxford, he also edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry… What a coincidence? Or maybe the intellectual class have a plan executed over generations and you aren’t party to it!

Brave New World 1980 Full Movie

The Oxford paper, authored by Brian D. Earp, Olga A. Wudarczyk, Anders Sandberg, and Julian Savulescu, was published in 2013 under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0), making it openly accessible. Below is an excerpt from the introduction, which spans the familiar terrain of heartbreak and delves into more disturbing territory—such as the use of love as a force that could bind an adult to a child, or civilian to a handler in exploitative or abusive ways.

“Love hurts”-as the saying goes-and a certain amount of pain and difficulty in intimate relationships is unavoidable. Sometimes it may even be beneficial, since adversity can lead to personal growth, self-discovery, and a range of other components of a life well-lived. But other times, love can be downright dangerous. It may bind a spouse to her domestic abuser, draw an unscrupulous adult toward sexual involvement with a child, put someone under the insidious spell of a cult leader, and even inspire jealousy-fueled homicide. How might these perilous devotions be diminished? The ancients thought that treatments such as phlebotomy, exercise, or bloodletting could “cure” an individual of love. But modern neuroscience and emerging developments in psychopharmacology open up a range of possible interventions that might actually work. These developments raise profound moral questions about the potential uses-and misuses-of such anti-love biotechnology. In this article, we describe a number of prospective love-diminishing interventions, and offer a preliminary ethical framework for dealing with them responsibly should they arise.

Copyright holder:Earp et al.

Before we allow the megalomaniacs to embrace a future where our emotional attachments can be Chemically/Digitally edited or erased, we must ask: Is this the future you want, for the children or humanity, a world in which technology decides who we love, how we feel, and when it ends? if at all.

Leave your thoughts in the comments below.