There is an extremely interesting study from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, regarding the use of oxytocin for police and military purposes. Oxytocin is a hormone that enhances trust and predisposes one to the building of trusting relationships, which is proposed to be used to forcibly reduce people’s reluctance to interact with security agents. It also considers various methods of oxytocin delivery, the most effective of which is inhalation—releasing oxytocin via a humidifier, an aerosol sprayer, or another device—since upon inhalation, it enters the brain almost instantaneously and begins to take effect.
Some of the proposed application scenarios are quite harmless and could be useful. These include stimulating trust in a child who is a victim or witness to a crime, in a person expressing suicidal intentions, in hostage situations to conduct successful negotiations, in criminals for their rehabilitation, or in terrorists so that they quickly trust an undercover newcomer.
But extremely bleak scenarios are also proposed, which could allow stationary bandits (states) to consolidate power, even up to the construction of a totalitarian dictatorship, without facing resistance. The first scenario is the control of protests by stimulating the trust of protesters in the police and security forces. The second scenario is the fight against uprisings, including through the mass spraying of oxytocin, in order to gain the trust of the population and predispose them to give up individuals disliked by the authorities.
It should be noted that this study was published back in 2007, and it is marked as “unclassified” and “approved for public release.” What the American military might have come up with since then, which remains classified and not in the public domain, we can only guess. Especially considering that they had ideas in the past such as “gay bombs,” which, when dropped on enemy troops, were intended to make soldiers combat-ineffective by inducing strong arousal.
One thing is clear: we can safely assume that stationary bandits want to manipulate our feelings and behavior by resorting to biological methods of influence. And perhaps, someday, they may even acquire means capable of brainwashing people and making them absolutely submissive.
One effective solution to such a threat can be proposed: to act preemptively, also by resorting to biological means that can be produced easily and cheaply. We are talking about means to enhance the function of the violence inhibition mechanism, the lack of which leads to psychopathic predispositions and the ability to commit intentional and planned acts of violence. The desire to have violent power over people is also a sign of psychopathic traits, and strengthening the violence inhibitor should predispose a person to abandon it. It should also make the security agents of stationary bandits unable to effectively commit acts of violence.
But what about delivering such means to their patients? It should be noted that security agents do not exist in isolation from society. They live among us, walk the same streets; they will not be able to chase dissenters in gas masks, especially if someone throws paint at them—after all, they are recruited directly from society. They are no more protected from biological influence from ordinary people than ordinary people are from such influence from them. They will be especially vulnerable if means for the permanent enhancement of the violence inhibitor, such as gene therapy drugs, become available and cheap. The question is only who will seize the initiative in biological methods of influence, and whether people will manage to overcome such a pathology as violence inhibitor dysfunction and eradicate it from society before the appearance of effective brainwashing tools.
