
Let's Grind - Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - Part 16 - Flowers for Oleander
I really hope that ex-bandit remembers to keep making his elixir and keep up with it. I also really hope he doesn't start building up a tolerance to it and having less impact from it. Because I'm getting a strong vibe of Flowers for Algernon from this story. It's a story some might have run across in school here in the US, at least in the 80s and 90s. Basic summary is that a drug company found a drug that would make someone a genius and the first human test subject went from being low intelligence to probably the smartest person any of the people in the project knew. Unfortunately, the drug had a limited duration and when it ran out, the person didn't just go back to where they were before, their brain shut down completely. The "Algernon" in the story referred to the mouse that was an earlier test subject. Sadly, the man who received the treatment was the one who deduced that he would not only lose his newfound intellect, but that he would essentially be dead soon.
It's one of those stories that's often touted as a cautionary tale against tampering with human nature. I tend to take issues with these sorts of morale tales because I am fairly transhumanist and tend to believe that manual adjustment of human nature is an ongoing practice that start probably the first time we invented language and went onward through the creation of writing, agriculture, engineering, optics, telephones, and other inventions that fundamentally redefined what it meant to be human. I agree it should be approached with caution, but too many of these stories tend to want to just shut down in investigation in that direction.
Annnnd now I've ranted a bit on what was just a simple joke in a video game that probably had none of this behind it when it was invented.
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