11.03.25: Tech: Memory Edits

Future therapy isn’t talking. It’s editing. You sit in a clinic, pick a memory, and delete it. Breakups, embarrassing mistakes, failures—all gone. At first, it feels liberating. Then society changes. People without trauma seem lighter, happier, unstoppable. But they’re also hollow. Pain teaches resilience, regret teaches caution. Without those scars, people repeat mistakes endlessly. Eventually, a counterculture rises: those who keep all their memories, raw and unedited, wearing them like badges. They’re messy, emotional, unpredictable, but also real. The question becomes not “what would you erase?” but “what are you willing to endure to stay human?”