Years ago, while sitting around the camp fire with a friend, he told me something I thought was crazy. He said he believed that we really are in a matrix of some kind. He also said that not everybody you meet, is actually human, but some of them are just programs designed to complete simple tasks and population references. At the time, I just chalked it up to his quality buds. Looking at the current behavior of the general population, I am rethinking his idea. They seem to lack the capability to engage in critical thinking. They simply respond to commands and stimulus according to their programming. NPCs may be more real than we thought.