We are moving from the era where people collectively lose the will to reproduce and the talent to prepare food, to one where they lose the ability to read and reason.
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That only describes about 60% of the people (at least on the US). The rest are having big families and are taking the society back.
What William said.
People with these defects always existed, the change is that they're now valourised and exalted for it.
It's amazing how quickly most people are abandoning thinking.
Never go full NPC.
...unless you're the DM.
DMPCs, you mean? NPCs controlled by the DM, to direct the other NPCs?
Like people who write bots that entrap and manipulate other bots?
Now we're going too deep.
We're cave-diving in metaphors!
(lol DM was just a tabletop gaming reference, for putting oneself in the role of an NPC in-game )
That's what a DMPC is. An (N)PC played by the DM.
DMPC here is usually a pejorative, for when the DM is playing an NPC "to win" like its their own character. Usually hogging the spotlight.
It takes no talent to prepare excellent food, just practice. People would rather put anything in their bodies than make an effort to produce, prepare, and preserve their own.
It looks like humans are decaying, but it's actually evolution sorting for intrinsic motivation, obsession, and passion.
Humans now have to want things more, in order to attain them, as there are such comfortable lower-level branches to rest on.
It's a measure of one's ambition.
I don't see this in my children. And some of theirs peers.
but I'm still aftaid it might be the case
For many the act of living has become purely passive.