The grid lock is because people have different beliefs and values.

Many people honestly value glazed donates and chips far more than the downsides of getting a heart attack at forty. They really do want to live a short life full of fast food and other treats and don't want taxes on those foods reducing their purchasing power.

We need to accept that other people have different values and we as an individual can't expect the whole world to bend to us.

As far as beliefs, people have many different beliefs, which is a problem since some of many of those beliefs are influenced by propaganda.

Right now, when people see an article/video/post after work about something, they often do not have the energy to read the research paper or other data sources referenced by that article, as well as think and reflect on the methodologies and interpretation of that data. So they believe the click bait.

When we have full automation people will have more time research, think, reflect, have conversations and debates, and even conduct their own experiments.

I don't think society would allow the government to force a procedure or pill on every one that changed their brains in an way. The psychopaths would get together and prevent those laws from occurring, find ways to make themselves the exceptions, or find ways to make it appear they got the treatment when they didn't.