Replying to Avatar Erik Cason

I’m coming to the sad conclusion that there really isn’t much going on inside of 90% of people. While they have the capacity and capability to self-reflect and creatively engage in the world, they don’t. They desire ease, comfort, and conformity above all else.

Not only that, but they fill themselves with so much garbage, propaganda, and ideals from others around them who are similar; they mute any real voice or agency that does come from within. They are not interested in the dynamic creative possibilities of the world, but the ease of obedience towards those who know what’s best for them. Their motto is ‘don’t rock the boat’.

These people are fucking dangerous, not because they want to hurt you, but because they lack the capacity to truly self-reflect in a meaningful way. They don’t care about what is true, just that the rules are followed. They don’t want to feel uncomfortable within self-reflection, but to flee into the values of others they have been told are theirs as well and is the only right way to be.

It is a valorization of callousness, a celebration of conformity, and a religious respect for authority to such an extent that their own personal responsibility vanishes.

These are NPCs. They are agents of the system and an integral part of how it functions and projects power. They are little more that drones at the subservience of the state, and only a radical awakening that forces them into the existential angst of what their only life is and means is the only thing that can truly awaken beings that are so asleep that they have forgotten their own being.

I wonder to what extent this behavior has been bred into people. The NPC's are a depressed bunch, mainly (I'm assuming) because they've been robbed of their agency and live in an invisible and unknowing servitude. You could replace the term "NPC" with "broken victim of the state" pretty easily.

I'm thinking the authoritarians causing the abuse won't be as effective as freedom tech asserts its influence and their systems continue their inevitable decay. This next decade will probably determine the true nature of the human spirit, whether it be blind obedience, or pursuit of truth and beauty. I'm obviously betting on the latter.

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Indeed, we are all sadly part of a huge inverted eugenics project that is the modern world that broke, mutilated, and murdered entire ethnic classes to create uniform cattle to serve the machine. The trauma is so deep it defines the very essence of the modern human.