Guest Post by John Wilder
“That’s an interesting point. Come on, let’s get into character.” – Pulp Fiction
Such stunning bravery and individualism!
Not quite a year ago a meme broke out into the wild – the Non-Player-Character (NPC) meme. The meme originated with video games. In video games that follow a storyline, there are various characters that exist only to move the story forward. While you can play a video game character that’s a 4’2” Asian female bodybuilder with tattoos and bright red hair, you can’t play as an NPC.
NPCs can create unplanned humor because they are programmed and react in only very predictable ways. Slug one, and they don’t care. Meet up with the same NPC for the tenth time? It’s like you never met before. They have no original ideas. They exist only to fulfill their programmed destiny.
The connection made, probably at 4Chan back in September of last year is that an NPC is really a great analogy for a Leftist that has given up completely on the idea of independent, individual thought. The contradictions that are contained within liberalism abound, but even more striking is the degree of programming present. An example:
Stephen Colbert is a late night talk show host who is famous for hating President Trump. In the show after former FBI® Director James Comey was fired, Colbert mentioned Comey was fired. The crowd was used to Comey being a villain. Why was Comey a villain? On the eve of the election of 2016, Comey announced a new investigation of the “newly-found e-mails” off of convicted creep Anthony Weiner that cost Hillary the election.
The crowd cheered because Comey got fired. Until Colbert reprogrammed them that, instead of being a bad guy, Comey was now a good guy. See for yourself:
Today, obviously, Comey is a hero of the Left. I would imagine that, if you asked a Leftist, you’d find that Comey was always a hero and they didn’t recall at all that they ever thought he was an evil Trump supporter. It’s like a quote from Orwell’s 1984:
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. “Reality control” they called it: in Newspeak, “doublethink.”
And the worst thing is when the update is downloading that the NPCs can’t do anything else until they reboot.
When you view it from outside, it’s easily seen. But from the inside, it’s not. The basic contradictions are astonishing in their scope and presentation of Doublethink:
- Pregnant men. Perfectly normal.
- Islamic feminism. No philosophical inconsistencies here!
- Roe versus Wade is written in stone, but the Constitution is a “living, changeable” document.
- Transitioning a nine-year-old to a new sex is normal and healthy. Has been going on for thousands of years.
- Speech you don’t agree with is violence. I’m triggered!
- Violence you agree with is free speech. Punch a fascist!
No, surely it’s not that.
I could go on in naming examples, and likely so could you. Are there contradictory views on the Right? Certainly, but they’re mostly not at core of the philosophy on the Right as they are the very core of the philosophy of the Left. And, unlike the Left, the Right typically doesn’t end it all in a Purity Spiral (Robespierre, Stalin, Mao, Mangos and A Future That Must Not Be).
I’ll even admit that one time, I was an NPC on the Right. There was a point (long ago, college time) when a Democratic congresscritter proposed a national tax cut. President George H.W. Bush opposed it. So I opposed it.
Huh?
I had always been for tax cuts as a general rule. I stopped and thought . . . Why would I support not cutting taxes that the Democrats want to cut? Just because they’re Democrats?
I decided that the Democrat congresscritter was right. Cut the taxes. Obviously, that solved all the problems that our nation has. Oops.
The cure for being an NPC is thought. Since that time, I regularly examine what I think – this blog is a part of that process. I also examine why I think it. If the reason that I believe something is because other people believe it, is that a good reason?
No, it’s not really a good reason. Unless you’re a Leftist.
I think the reason Leftists are more susceptible to the Doublethink that drives them into the NPC cult is that they’re more r-selected – they come from an environment that values conformity and group inclusion. I write about r-selection versus K-selection here (r/K Selection Theory, or Why Thanksgiving is Tense* (for some people)). r-selected animals, like rabbits, move in groups. They’re prey animals, and know that the only safety that they have is in numbers. Doing something that’s different than the herd singles you out. It gets you killed. Rightists are K-selected – they’re predators. Individual behavior is not only tolerated, it’s the only way to get your genes propagated.
Okay this wasn’t an original, but was too good to pass up. I think it came from 4chan.
This explains several things about the Left. They reacted so quickly to the NPC meme that they had NPC-themed Twitter® accounts banned within a month of the meme making widespread appearance. How do you know something bothers someone? When it creates such a strong reaction.
Are all Leftists NPCs? Nope. I know a few I can discuss politics with and we can still be friends. They admit when I have a point. I admit when they have a point – a few very popular posts have had their genesis with conversations I was having with Left-leaning friends. But discussing politics with the typical NPC should be avoided. There is nothing more personal to them than the ideas that they have that don’t impact them at all. Really. Why would a fifty-year-old cat lady be more passionate about illegal aliens than anything else in her life?
By definition, a religion punishes heresy and blasphemy above all else. To call NPCs cult members might sound strong, but the reality is that they probably are. Notice the reaction when a newly-revealed religious revelation presents itself: “DACA”, “living wage”, “Maxine Waters is not the reincarnation of James Brown’s hair”, “religion of peace”, “bake my cake”, or “white privilege” begins.
I’d call it a tie. But unlike Maxine, James liked “Living in America.”
To be against any of these is to be filled with hate. Being left alone is not an option. Having no opinion is not an option. From their perspective, the only opinion you can have is the correct opinion – their opinion.
Me, I think I’ll keep thinking for myself. But remember, that’s dangerous.
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Again with your “Left” and “Right” dumb shit. Got it, lefties are a commy douche bags, NPCs, etc. Who the fuck argues otherwise? Explain what you mean by the “Right”. Is John Bolton part of the “Right”? What about Jeb Bush or Dick Cheney? What about all the Israel-firsters and mister orange MIGA himself? What is a unifying, central idea for the “Right”? Or any fucking ideas? Thank you.
I get it, and I bet Wilder does too. How do you propose to discuss this? “Them” and “Us” maybe? You are proposing that everyone here is stupid and does not know that there are “guiding forces” or TPTB that really do not care about left or right issues. Their goal is control and to strip the middle class until it’s gone and then to control us and/or eliminate us entirely from the landscape.
We can’t vote our way out of this. Trump will not save us. There is only plan B and the rest of the word that starts with B ends with lood. What’s your idea? You spouted off but presented no ideas. Hmmm? I’m waiting.
I asked a fucking question, and your reply is a proof positive that 19th Amendment should have never been ratified. I’ll ask it again – is John Bolton part of the “Right”? I am NOT waiting for your answer – you have no fucking clue.
I’ll state it again – “Left” and “Right” divide is a fucking distraction. One group of psychos wants to take your money and give it to niggers and illegals, and the other group of psychos want to take your money and give to MIC and fight endless wars for Israel. How is that helping a guy to be in the middle of it? Any fucking idea? What is it that makes “Right” right? Stance on fucking abortions? What the fuck is it? Sure you don’t have any fucking answers. Keep taking about “Left” and “Right”, and Plan B (what the fuck is plan B?), and other such nonsense.
And to answer your question, the real divide is between dumb fucks like you and people who understand what freedom means, and what role of the fucking government is. I’d explain it for you, but I’ll leave you to argue about “Left” and “Right”
Lay off the lady, she is expressing herself quite well and your disparaging the 19th amendment is asinine; especially when there are plenty of sister patriots out there whom you do not need to be dissing.
If you look at the article again, it wasn’t so much left or right as much as are you open or closed in listening to arguments and forming your opinion accordingly, as opposed to being given your opinion as part of the collective.
Left or right is so yesterday anyway, it’s like being a Democrat or republican; the titles mean nothing in today’s political environment. To wonder who is left or who is right is meaningless. The best way I can make any differentiation is to ask who is globalist, where government solves everything or who is nationalistic, who stands for fighting for my neighborhood or country with as little government intervention as possible.
Anyway, pick your fights carefully and try to remember whose side you are on as well as who the enemy is. As a lover of liberty, it does no good to be shooting at fellow brothers and sisters who are in the same foxhole as yourself.
The premise of the article is “Most of the Left are dumb fucks”. Good and dandy, no disagreement there. My point is “Flag waiving morons on Breitbart are dumb fucks too, and therefore framing a conversation in terms of left and right is idiotic.” Lady’s answer was a non-sequitur, proving to me that getting any kind of logic out of “sister patriots” is near impossible most of the time.
You state “Left or right is so yesterday anyway, it’s like being a Democrat or republican; the titles mean nothing in today’s political environment.” Precisely my fucking point. Let’s continue fucking arguing then.
To make your point then, who is not a dumb f*ck?
If you had begun on a less confrontational basis we might be talking about how all the left/right is fuqueing up our constitutional republic. How ignoring Washington’s Farewell Address and Ike’s warnings of how dangerous the MIC was becoming have us bleeding Gold (FRN’s) and real blood all over the world which could have made us a really shining city on a hill instead of what we have right now. How the left/right is a mere distraction so the globalist Uniparty can continue the revolving door gravy train which acts as a parasite on every American, stupid, smart, in between etc.
Let me tell you, all this shit is trying for an old dude who wants the chimeric Farmer’s Republic.
Thank you Sir, yours is the first intelligent response here. But, one can scream on the top of his lungs, and dupes don’t care. As for the language, I’ll try to clean it up a bit. As I get older and madder it gets harder and harder to give a shit about other people’s feelings.
There are still people who highly value manners and diplomacy.
Agreed. Waking up is the point. I’m 100% on board with the Republic, farmer or not.
If you’ll note, I noted that I, myself was an NPC for the Right at one point. Thankfully, I discovered coffee and woke up a bit.
It is much more prevalent on the Left than on the Right now.
Poor child, you don’t seem to understand the premise of the article. You want to distract from the conversation by tossing out a strawman, who is left, who is right, question. You can go fornicate your stupid self…are you a troll?
It is unfortunate, but your moronic one-liner only proves my point that universal suffrage was a dumbest fucking idea that contribute to the demise of this country and the West in general immensely.
Ah, yes, let us not argue the point, instead, like all insecure idiots with flaccid dicks, you must use sexual stereotypes as insults. Pity…you came out of the chute all foul mouthed and aggressive, attacking and angry and whatever point you might have made got lost in your inability to communicate civilly and intelligently.
Ignoring the thread jacker and addressing the point of the article, NPC’s HAVE to act as they do, herd animals cannot act as individuals, their survival depends on being part of the herd.
Until the goat herds them all into the chute. Others can be sheep. I prefer being with the Rams.
Bro, the hard N! Nice.
Imagine a circle. Freedom at the top. Tyranny at the bottom. Left on the left, right on the right. You are a dot on that circle. Where are you?
Now fold that circle in half vertically. Where are you now?
Do this to a Leftist. See how they react.
Robert (QSLV)
Awesome. Care to explain what the fuck does it mean – “Right”? So I can place myself in the circle? What does “Right” mean? Against abortions? Pro-Israel? Pro 2nd Amendment? Against drugs? Fuck the Russians? Explain it to me please.
It is much simpler really – imagine a fucking line, freedom on one end, and total statism on the other. And “Left” and “Right” shit is just some fucking imaginary categories, both leaning towards total statism, their goals and methods barely distinguishable from one another. I’ll concede that leftists are closer to the North Korean utopia, but not by much.
Exactly. When you fold the paper, left and right disappears. It was never a real construct; just a way for the tyrants to divide and conquer. And stop yelling.
Robert (QSLV)
You mean like when W Bush ran as a fiscal conservative, and then doubled the federal budget in his eight years? DOUBLED.
Who needs to think, when you’ve got mantras?
All Cults put people under stress and take away such simple things as opening a door for themselves.
I’m beginning to think part of the invasion on the southern border is designed to stress the people into NPC mode.
Little rocks out of big rocks.
That’s always been the plan that ‘rulers’ have for humanity; divide and conquer.
The one-worlders, globalists who want humanity in one yoke, can only accomplish that by dividing us, culturally and ideologically. The ‘diversity’ movement is a genetic oxymoron. It doesn’t represent any natural strata, all of which eschew diversity for uniformity. We will never be truly diverse until individual freedom is assured. That’s not where we’re headed. We are on a narrow track to conformity. Or else. Uniformity of identity does not require conformity. I am part of humanity, but rarely conform to any identity except ‘surfer’.
It doesn’t matter which opposing labels are ‘constructed’ for us, or what they mean, only that people disagree each other about how we should be ruled. And argue about it forever. Prey want mob rule; predators don’t. Parasites don’t give a shit who they milk as long as they are getting theirs free.
I don’t want a ruler, a president, a king, a chief, or freebies. I certainly don’t want a Nanny State protecting me from myself. I want everybody to mind their own business and leave me alone unless I invite them into my world. Today, that would be difficult to achieve living in an Amazon rain forest.
‘Right and Left’, ‘Us and Them’, is what makes religious ‘branding’ (my God vs your God) throughout human history such a laughable human folly. Nobody can speak with any authority about what God is, wants, or intends for us. The self-contradicting maelstroms of religious dogma will never align even one religion’s sects, much less all of humanity. All religions claim to spout God’s truth, and there can only be ONE truth, right? And ‘The Truth’ never divides those who seek it, yes?
Are Christianity’s ideologies embraced equally by Pentecostals, Mormons and Papists? Are Islam’s sacred tenets observed with the same devotion among Shia, Sunni and Sufi?
Asking for any sort of alignment that ‘identifies’ the difference between left and right is moronic, not unlike asking, halfway between the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies, “Which way is up and which way is down?”
There’s no such thing.
You can save a few NPCs by showing them this video:
Or their heads might explode. Worth the risk.
Wow. Amazing find AC. (((they))) have been trotting out that six million number for over 100 years and the goy bought it every time. And what do you know, the WordPress spell checker doesn’t know how to spell goy.
a good night pop tart…enjoy
Your analogy with a cult is spot on, in fact, the propagandists on the left use collective psychology knowingly to manipulate the masses. Many players on the left are well versed in Depth Psychology which emphasizes the function of the human religious instinct. The easiest people to manipulate by the religious instinct are those whose ego’s are convinced they aren’t religious and are “scientific secularists.” But then they just bow down to any idea that a politician says “it’s science, so you must BELIEVE it.” Such psychological techniques are used by Hollywood screenwriters, academia and people like Al Gore. Gore even mentions many of Depth Psychology’s most popular writers in his own books. The religious right often has its own religious delusions (biblical literalism) that can be used to manipulate them but that also makes them more immune to political cults since they already have a religious identity. Great article.