I got the news that Twatter is banning people who call others NPCs. It's basically the latest hate speech. But more importantly it's highly accurate. Non-Player Characters have their origins in Dungeons & Dragons and got popular with video games. There have been terms like sheeple and SJW thrown around to describe certain people. But both in reaction and accuracy, the term NPC is a term that fits better.
Know Your Meme
In some corners of the internet, NPC is beginning to replace the term “SJW.” According to ex-World of Warcraft dev Mark Kern, NPCs have the following qualities: “Incapable of independent thought. Wants everything done for them. (Quests) Constantly needing coddling (escort quests).” He published his checklist after another developer accused him of being a “right wing hack.” The tweet evidently was meant to compare so-called SJWs to these NPCs.
It’s one thing to claim that a person’s strongly-held views are informed by nothing at all, but entirely another to imply that they’re completely on auto-pilot. That is dehumanization, a way of reconceiving your enemies as objects, pawns, strawmen, tools. At best, dismissing large swaths of people you disagree with this way betrays a lack of empathy for people whose experiences differ from yours, and an __unwillingness to consider that if a vast number of people happen to agree over something, it may be good to examine wh__y; at best, it is a great utility for spreading bogus conspiracy theories.
That was from a Kotaku article that attack the "De-humanization" of the usage of the term that actually reinforce the reasons why the term is being used in the first place. I personally try my best to avoid all arguments/debates on SJWs because I've learned from other people's experiences and a because a great man named Mark Twain said “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
Random Person on Twitter Checks For Girls in A 50 Mile Radius
It All Starts From School
You know that I don't have many good things to say about school. In fact I consider it the worst tragedy of my life. School is the death bed of creativity and critical thinking. It's the place where kids learn to memorize answers for rewards. This is where kids learn to repeat what they hear. Some kids are natural sheep and some cannot be turned to sheep no matter what. But most fall into a middle and school make sure that they all turn into NPCs.
School is a place where you are told that you need to do you math in a certain way unless you won't to loose marks. I've lost even 40% of the marks for perfect answers simply for the reason I didn't follow the standard method in physics and chemistry.
After checking out what some of my friends are doing in college, I just figured out that school was practically heaven in this regard. It also doesn't hurt to notice that a large portion of these NPCs are college age kids.
It's Not Too Hard To Go From That To This:
Or This:
Something To Keep in Mind
Libertarianism is neither of the left nor of the right. It is unique. It is sui generis. It is apart from left and right. The left right political spectrum simply has no room for libertarianism. Think of an equilateral triangle, with libertarianism at one corner, the left at a second corner and the right at the third corner. We are equally distant from both of those misbegotten political economic philosophies. No, better yet, think in terms of an isosceles triangle, with us at the top and the two of them at the bottom, indicating they have more in common with each other than with us.
- Walter Block
Even something great can easily be used perverted and converted or simply taken out of context. An easy example would be calling United States a Democracy or the term "Liberal" being hijacked by those who want more government, more laws, more coercion and less freedom. Even the NPC meme can be used by the NPCs from the other side of the political spectrum.
Fun Fact
If you take the word "MOB" (as in a zombie horde or typical democracy or communism) and move the letters, you get NPC:
M - N
O- - P
B - C_
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