That's... well, slightly creepy given I'm right this minute working on a fic in which memories are messed with. I'm not sure I like the implications of that. All our experiences go to make the whole - I'm not sure you can just bleep out one thing without messing up everything. It's not like memory exists in a vaccuum - everything we do touches everything else somehow.
This is, to me, both ominous and odious. There are far too many people in this world who want to apply this sort of drug to other people to serve their own ends, and far too many of them are in positions of power, great and small. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
See also Robert Silverberg's short story "Sundance" (anthologized in Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader, The Science Fiction Century, and I don't know where else).
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