Worth a dive into. It reminds me of the line "The end won't be for everyone".
If NPC theory has any merit to it, it explain near perfectly why most people just can't seem to be able to grasp what you've been telling them about the system.
That blank look, the immediate rejection, the programmed responses, the ability to maintain through control grids you and I find unbearable.
There is tons of research on it and it's very, very intriguing stuff.
Yes. So many situations where their program simply outputs whatever it was programmed to do.
I have a childhood friend who, no matter what, responds immediately like a robot every time he is presented with information that is detrimental to the system. Like he can't think that far past the "wall".
I've asked him about the inner monologue and he has no idea what I'm talking about lol