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.
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.
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.
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.
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.