The video about script munching NPC automatons that make the NPC memes so enduring. Like our Jackson. Ability to think for yourself is more critical than ever and yet, so many outsource the effort to someone else. By the time the realize the consequences of this, if they in fact ever do that, there will be too late for many.

The Daniel Natal Show: The Dangers of Mass Man

In the 1950s, philosophers and psychologists worried about the effects of mass culture on human beings. As the system crushed out the miracle of human personality, it favored a standardization model for people. How does this play into the current NPC meme?

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Because men are in a group,
and therefore weakened,
receptive, and in a state of
psychological regression, they
pretend all the more to be
"strong individuals." The mass
man is clearly sub-human, but
pretends to be superhuman. He
is more suggestible, but insists
he is more forceful; he is more
unstable, but thinks he is firm
in his convictions ...
Democracy is based on the
concept that man is rational and
capable of seeing clearly what
is in his own interest, but the
study of public opinion suggests
this is a highly doubtful proposition.

JACQUES ELLUL, Propaganda

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“The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness. Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is and that there is no coming to consciousness without pain. What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by simply imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. And we cannot change anything unless we accept it. We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves. Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” ― C.G. Jung

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“In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code of values; in order to define a code of values, he must know what he is and where he is – i.e. he must know his own nature (including his means of knowledge) and the nature of the universe in which he acts – i.e. he needs metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, which means: philosophy. He cannot escape from this need; his only alternative is whether the philosophy guiding him is to be chosen by his mind or by chance.

Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch-or build a cyclotron-without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think” ― Ayn Rand