Quote: (10-16-2018 04:09 AM)BlueMark Wrote:
The only difference is that today, there is so much more programming of the masses by the elites: through TV, movies, internet, ads. This is a necessary step by the elites to maintain control in a democratic society: they can't just kill people for their beliefs, so instead they bombard the masses with media programming to instill the right set of beliefs.
In short, the NPCs were not created by the elites, they are simply fertile minds waiting to be programmed by whatever societal indoctrination machine that comes along.
If this is true, then it really calls into one of the great sacred cows of modern society: universal suffrage. If the masses are so easily led into groupthink, then why are they all given a vote without any kind of qualifications or selective filters?
As I noted before - yes - most humans have always been NPCs being shaped by their basic biology plus the society around them, education (if there was one), art and mostly religion.
However - the current batch of NPC programming is a bit special.
It's designed to wipe especially the Western societies out - that is very very new, since the elite in the past were not interested in that.
Second - it's being deliberately insane - even more than in the past. In the past most insanity happened because of some strange rumor that got out of hand, superstition or idea of some church leader or ruler. While this is true today, it's bad especially when you compare it to saner times from 1900-1960. Yes - even the war periods were saner from a sociology viewpoint. The basic framework of life and family was much more sane between 1800-1960s even despite the many faults.
The NPC meme is thus helpful because it shows a mirror to the NPCs to at least break free of some of the negative elite-created conditioning - all while thinking that they are special and unique.