I’m not opposed to either “inward looking techiques” or the administration of drugs or shocks, as long as both reception of and payment for the “treatment” is voluntary.
What concerns me is the concept of the “ideal human.” It raises the question of who decides, and more ominously, “what is to be done, by whom, and to whom?” Inevitably, the “non-ideal” humans aren’t too eager to go along with “the plan,” hence, the “need” for a bit of “persuasion.”
Consider this paragraph from page 101 of Fatal Freedom (my emphasis):