NPCs are created and maintained by keying off of their laziness. They don't want to fight, just accept their slavery. Doomers are about the same, it's easier to give in.
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🧠 These people are stupid!
I think there is a bit more to someone being an NPC than just intellectual laziness.
They seem to be "missing" something when compared to independent thinkers... or conversely, independent thinkers have something extra that most other people don't have. I can't prove any of that though.
Also, I don't believe this is a recent phenomenon. Some sort of ratio between NPC's and independent thinkers has been shown by various studies (some conducted long ago) to be somewhere between 80/20 and 70/30.
Whatever you call them - NPC's, sheeple, etc... they are basically followers that do not think for themselves. All they can do is find someone/something to follow.
Therefore, that is why leaders that have the best interests of their followers at heart are so important for the sheeple. President Trump, as one example. Bolsonaro as another...
They lack curiosity, analytical, and perceptive ability. They accept everything at face value and don't read between the lines.
The system has conditioned many to believe they will never get ahead and the way things are is as good as it is going to get. That opens the door for UBI and "you will own nothing" which is positioned as better than what they have now. So they just go along.
There are plenty of people who DO experience "getting ahead" in life. They can have successful careers and believe they are "winning" in life.
Yet, they have zero intellectual curiosity about anything, including their own profession.
So, there is more to it than simply being conditioned to not get ahead.
Yup. Getting ahead in life only means someone put in extra effort or got lucky and got a good income but they will still blindly devote their lives to an employer that doesn't give a shit about them. Then they often will not even have enough free time to allow any curiosity to build up. They will be too busy trying to survive and/or too busy going through the motions of a never ending routine filled life. A person would have to break the routine to see something new and a lot of people won't break that routine out of fear.