The NPC meme is a little weird to me because I saw a /pol/ post from a few years ago that put forth the idea that there is a literal, tangible divide between NPCs and PCs. The gist of it is that PCs are people who have reincarnated with the limited, unchanging number of souls on Earth and everyone else is soulless and they justify this by people talking about celebrities/media/anything popular instead of whatever insane politics the poster applied to.
1) Is it limited to humans? Can my pets get reincarnated?
2) Do gamers count as NPCs?
3) If tradfascism, neo-naziism, and any other far right ideologies are the only PC-friendly ideologies, does inbreeding increase the chance of being reincarnated a a PC in the next life?
The origin of the meme isn’t so much that Chan post so much as a study (and a few others apparently, but I never read articles about them) that suggests that anywhere between 25%-75% of the population has no internal monologue, and significant portion have a very limited one. In other words, they act mostly on nonverbal primal impulse.
On the basis of it and so many modern leftist, basic MAGA, and pop culture rhetoric being such canned lines and simplistic like “fuck Drumpf,” “BUILD THE WALL” etc, right-twitter and 4chan has concluded that much humanity really do not have an internal monologue and are NPCs, but in particular White and/or Jewish SJWs.
Jesus. I don’t even know where to start. Why SJWs though? Both sides follow the same sort of dialectic strategy in terms of trying to mainstream their norms, and both tend to be really extremist views because of that. So what is the defining factor that’s supposed to render the right immune to propaganda or conditionong or w/e you want to call it, but not the left?
As I recall it started out as being mainly targeted towards people who called themselves liberals or progressives and that’s where the meme got it’s initial “right-wing slant” but it fairly quickly became politically neutral, though I imagine people on both sides of the spectrum would like to believe otherwise.
Wouldn’t it be fucked up if people recontextualized it to mean people who don’t take a strong political stance? Like as a slur to people who stay neutral on hot button issues and be the next iteration of centrism?
I’ve always viewed it as memeing collectivist rote-indoctrinated people in general, and its best usage as a Catch 22 against them.
If they try to refute being called an NPC with one of their ideology’s talking points, they just prove it right, and it’s difficult for them to formulate a unique response to the accusation because of their surface-level recital-based political mindset.
Couldn’t that be applied to any political ideology though?
Yeah the good thing about the NPC meme, unlike SJW, is it can be a stand in for any idealogue who spews the same nonsense like a broken record. That’s how I thought it should be used.
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