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Aristocratic Dog's avatar

I'm gonna trust everything you said. Thank you for providing some external validation for my preconceived notions on the different levels of being.

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Krug's avatar

You’re welcome. If you’re curious, I can do a deep dive on any of these topics, too. Some stuff here is glossed over pretty quickly.

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Aristocratic Dog's avatar

I was role-playing as an NPC lol. But, it was a good article.

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Krug's avatar

I can be pretty autistic sometimes haha. I was actually kind of confused because you of all people seem like someone who would be skeptical these kinds of systems.

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Meonly1's avatar

Lol. According to who?

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Sirius White's avatar

Such excellent writing, thank you.

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Krug's avatar

I was going to say, some of Scheler's stuff on the social self is probably relevant to your work in the Radical Undoing. Glad you liked it.

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Anonymous's avatar

Put in the most reductive and obnoxious way:

"Are you controlling your avatar from a place outside the universe?"

If your answer is not a clear and obvious "Yes", then technically, you would be an NPC.

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Krug's avatar

I mean, most views of this kind have the force “controlling the avatar” as something beyond time.

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The Hermit's avatar

I believe if you're asking yourself that question, it automatically rules you out from being an NPC because you are questioning your own behavior.

That being said, I also don't believe in the concept of an NPC as everything is a fantasy. People, who follow the status quo have a positive fantasy of their ideology whereas dissidents have a negative fantasy of their ideology. We are technically all NPC's in the sense that we will repeat desire what ideological systems tell us to desire and at the same time we make those desires our own which is where we develop our individuality. Even the baddie who listens to sexy redd on repeat at the club has a sense of individuality when she slams her crotch on the floor.

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Krug's avatar

I actually don’t think that’s the case with the woman dancing. I agree that it isn’t the best way to categorize things, but there is something to the idea that many people simply don’t have any genuine individuality.

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The Hermit's avatar

Genuine individuality is reserved for some people that much is true. However, everybody possesses some individuality to an extent. Thinking in terms of “those NPC's against us Aristocrats” or “talking to this NPC ain't worth it” is a bourgeois escapism to not engage with the real world. But the issue here is this escapism puts people in a ideological bubble aswell where they for example repeat fascistic asceticism instead of CNN. What's the fundamental difference?

The NPC meme is anti-dialectic because it puts it at a halt.

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Krug's avatar

I hope you’re right.

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The 13th Grade's avatar

The people worrying that they might be an NPC reminds me of people from my church who are worried if they are saved or not. “Am I of the elect or not?”

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troy milton's avatar

If your a rapist with the maoa gene.

Whites and Asian people are NPC races for the most part.

“Just following orders”

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Sirius White's avatar

Awesome, I'll dig in!

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