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Most of the general public are effectively NPCs who robotically repeat what is on the screen. I'm sure you know the behavior I'm talking about where someone exp
by Consultant32452 4y ago
Most of the general public are effectively NPCs who robotically repeat what is on the screen. I'm sure you know the behavior I'm talking about where someone expresses "their opinion" and it's word for word something they mindlessly parrot from Fox News or CNN or whatever they watch. That little context/fact check is extremely important. Recently, the White House tweeted bragging SS recipients were getting the largest increase in history. Context was added to the tweet to say it was legally required because inflation was so high and not a new action the government took. They were so embarrassed they deleted the tweet. That's real power.
I doubt Musk is really a high-minded savior figure. If he's just doing this to make money then that is fine by me.
- compiskey 4y agoThat’s your reductive view of the public. I don’t think they’re dimwitted NPCs, but being treated disingenuously by people who think they’re NPCs. The public is very aware they don’t deference to any particular individual. Musk, or you. At the end of the day twice as many guns as people in this country.
- Consultant32452 4y ago>but being treated disingenuously by people who think they’re NPCs. Those non-NPCs either continue to vote for the people treating them this way and/or continue to behave as if their authority over them is legitimate.
- compiskey 4y agoFrom my reference frame you’re one of the NPCs
- Consultant32452 4y agolol you played yourself by engaging with someone you perceive has having no mind.
- compiskey 4y agoI am reciting my own inner monologue reminding myself we’re each just one of billions, nothing special. None of my posts address anyone else specifically at all. Qualified truth is relative. This is all generic language. You’re hardly saying anything novel. You’re no further beyond the edge of human understanding than I am. You see it as I “played myself” I see it as you’re another meat bag over stimulated by their own awareness.