I would explain it as a culture which is defined by their worldview; to me the driving force behind it is best understood as a “spirit” or “collective consciousness” or perhaps “disembodied consciousness”
I am not saying the woke/ NPC people are the “spirit” etc but rather that they are like the vessels by which it images itself into the world; I’m trying to get at the root of the ideas themselves.
This explanation seems to fit most things, I think.
I feel like that understanding is also seen in this permalink here, where the “conspiracies” culture or “spirit” has expressed itself against the “Christian” culture or “Spirit”. Meaning the two worldviews expressed their ideas and the people (including me) cooperated with the ideas.
Is this appropriate post for this sub?
To put a fine point on it, it's not a mindset but rather the structure of their minds.
One may liken it, at least on the surface, to color-blindness. Both conditions are not readily noticed, nor detectable through casual observation. Indeed, the color-blind themselves most often do not realize they're different from other people until their teens or early twenties. Specialized tests are required for positive identification. All this while they quite literally see the world entirely differently than everyone else around them.
The NPC state of human consciousness is virtually never studied scientifically. That indicates this is one of "Their" biggest secrets. Does everyone recall how vigorously it was denied when it first boiled over? "They" wanted to go back to the normal way of protecting the biggest secrets. It's not that it's denied and you are forbidden from discussing it, you're just never supposed to realize it exists.
the color blindness is an interesting analogy. I think it’s accurate because it doesn’t eliminate the possibility for them to learn to overcome that colorblindness (highly unlikely) or to receive some treatment or intervention which might help
they can’t do any of that if they don’t think it’s a problem to begin with, and if their faced with the reality of their situation that doesn’t mean they will always choose to address the change
EDIT: and this understanding does not give excuse for their “cutting the wrong wire”, the things they do and say are still despicable
Really good point which I had never considered! Plus finishing off with this part too
It's a really long story, but part of this differing state of consciousness--maybe the most important part--is that their moral reasoning is "inverted" from what you assume it is.
That is, in the expected mode of operation, you collect facts and reasoning, apply moral principles, then take action, hoping that you have done the morally correct thing and are thus a "good" person.
With NPCs all that is reversed. They begin with the conclusion that they are "good" people. All their actions are, of course, morally justified by definition. Moral principles, reasoning, and facts will found, interpreted, and even invented to support all this. Reality itself will give way.
This is what underlies so many confounding aspects of their behavior: total moral relativism, no fixed moral principles, inability to detect contradiction, made up "facts", hypocrisy, failure to protect even their own freedoms, etc.
This inversion leads--or perhaps defines--a complete moral certitude. Even with the religious, almost all recognize that they're liable to error and sin and will always fall short of the mark. You've got to go a long way to find a zealot that believes they are above error and sin.
Do you think that NPCs are more common in our Era? Which societies would have had the fewest?
Long story how I came to these conclusions, and as much as it may sound like outlandish fantasy there's a lot of compelling evidence to back it up.
It looks like everyone was an NPC, except for kings and chief priests, up to 600 BC. As it looks now--and I have no evidence to suspect it was otherwise at any time along the line--about 80% of the population are NPCs, 15% are "in-between", and 5% are fully conscious.
I've never come across any evidence regarding differences due to geography, culture, or environment. It also does not seem to be hereditary.
There are the slightest hints it can be affected or altered technologically. Crossing over into some informed speculation, I think everyone has the capability for full consciousness inherent genetically, but it is only activated in some people. To throw some buzzwords out, I suspect it's encoded in junk DNA and is enabled epigenetically. It also clearly seems to involve the pineal gland.
But as I mentioned, it's extremely difficult to come by information regarding all this because it's like the blind men examining an elephant. And also the Big Boss comes by to give them a beating when they get too close to the elephant.