Reprogramming NPCs For Fun And Profit

“Dad, two of the greatest football players in the country hang out in a speakeasy downtown.” – Horse Feathers

I dated a partially blind girl once.  She said she wasn’t seeing anyone else.

Donald Trump fired James Comey, Director of the FBI on May 9, 2017.  Leftists had been hating on James Comey since he had, right before the election, announced that additional information about St. Hillary the Divine was on Anthony “hitting on underage chicks while I’m in the bed with my son” Weinerman had thousands of emails on his computer.

Oops.

Leftists really think that this was the reason the most unlikable candidate since cancer lost the election.  It really wasn’t.  It wasn’t Russia.  It was that Hillary was rated below the plague in popularity.

But that didn’t matter a bit.  The Left hated, with every cell in their rotund transsexual bodies, Comey.

Then Trump fired him.  On Stephen Colbert’s show (press ‘S’ to spit) Colbert announced that Comey had been fired.  The crowd cheered.  I don’t recall what Colbert said, exactly, but it was something on the order of, “Oh, so you’re big Trump fans, eh?”

The crowd was confused.  The Narrative up until that point was Orange Man Bad, Comey Hurt Hillary, So Comey Man Bad, Too.

Colbert went on to explain that now, Comey was now a hero.  Inside of thirty seconds, Colbert had reprogrammed the entire studio audience.  He had also (probably) reprogrammed however many people who could stand his drivel that were watching him on television.

Why didn’t James Comey indict Hillary Clinton?  He found his suicide note in her emails.

In one week, Comey went from villain to hero.  Why?  The Narrative demanded it.

I know what you’re saying.  “Okay, John Wilder, you manly beast who men admire and women swoon for, that was more than half a decade ago, back when gas prices were low and inflation wasn’t 49% per year.  I’m sure it’s better now.”

Oh, my sweet summer child.

The reality is the programming now is even more blatant.  Let’s pick just one thing.  China and the ‘Ronavirus.

This week, I was stunned when The Mrs. was reading me comments from Leftists.  It turns out that the ‘Vid is either killing all the Chinese people or Xi is using it as a social control tool.  Or something else.  Heck, I don’t live in China, so I’m not sure I really care.

It’s true that China has a Wonton regard for life.

In a brief conversation, The Mrs. related these stories:

  • Leftists were upset that China was arresting a woman who “wore her mask in a way that didn’t cover her nose” and that cause her business to fail.
  • Leftists were upset that the Chinese people were being forced to follow government dictates about how to deal with Corona.
  • Justin Trudeau was in favor of the Chinese anti-COVID protests.  See below:

Yes.  He said that.  I guess he reprogrammed himself?

So, these are the same people who were applauding when a woman in Dallas was arrested for trying to be a beautician.  When people in Australia were being put into “voluntary” camps that they “escaped” from.  And when Trudeau was being protested against?  He froze the bank accounts of the protesters, his advisors talked about putting tanks in the streets, and used a law meant for a state of war to give himself more powers.

In February, noncompliance with anything Biden or Trudeau wanted was treason.  Today, when China wants to do the exact same things that Biden and Trudeau did?

China bad.

Shouldn’t it be called NPCNN®?

The Left is reprogrammed again.

A common term for behavior like this is a Non-Player Character, like a character that shows up in a video game that has no autonomy.  And many on the Left are just that – they don’t have any opinions that are fixed.  They show up, repeat what was programmed into their heads, and then the next time you encounter them, repeat the next talking point.

When the old talking point is done?

Replace.

When considering this, I thought, “Well, I know that there are NPCs on the Left.  How many of them are on the Right?”

I looked to a moment when Trump was at a rally long after the 2020 election.  He praised his work in creating the vaxx.

The arena turned ugly, quickly.  Trump wasn’t their leader, and the crowd wouldn’t be reprogrammed.  Trump stopped with that little line.  I also know from the comment section here and on other blogs that there is a healthy disagreement on the Right.  We aren’t a monolith, but most of our decisions are based on principle, not on the moment.

Why shouldn’t vaxxed and boosted people play charades?  Everyone guesses they’re having a heart attack.

An NPC?  They’ll change their opinions in 30 seconds or less.

I can see at least some reasons that Leftist NPCs are like that.  They don’t search back to principles, rather, they’re more swayed by what the crowd says.  But television and the Internet serve the Narrative.  I think there’s something that happens to an NPC when a crowd all thinks the same thing.  I think they seek conformity with whatever the Narrative is, because to be outside of the Narrative is uncomfortable.

At least that’s what I’ve come up with.

So, why NPC programming so easy?

If there isn’t a fixed principle, I think most people will believe anything.  I think people on the Right tend to have fixed principles.  They have a strong feeling of right and wrong.

In the end, this is why we’ll win – the Right is built on principles, many from thousands of years in the past.  The Left?  Not so much.

We watch what goes into our heads.

 

So, here’s our latest livestream.  It’s just The Mrs. and I, and we were, sadly, sober.  Enjoy!

Author: John

Nobel-Prize Winning, MacArthur Genius Grant Near Recipient writing to you regularly about Fitness, Wealth, and Wisdom - How to be happy and how to be healthy. Oh, and rich.

47 thoughts on “Reprogramming NPCs For Fun And Profit”

  1. My quibble is that we need to distinguish between the normiecon “right” and that actual right. Normiecons will believe whatever they are told and call you a stinkin’ lib’ral if you question it, esp in regards to foreign policy, esp esp in regards to Our Greatest Ally. The same is true for most NPC libs as opposed to the real leftist idealogues. In short, the vast majority of people are idiots and sheep.

    1. Comparing the Israeli people to non connected Jews that are the perfect example for this piece. People such as yourself judge people as groups. This is why people need to belong to antifa. Run people out of town and then wonder why they are not on your side LOL

        1. You can’t predict the actions of an individual. Some will always break the mold. However groups can be judged quite accurately.

        2. Both/and

          Judge individuals.

          Judge groups.

          Judge wisely and fairly. Exercise mercy when you have the strength and resources to keep it from turning into injustice. If we all got what we deserved, “who then would escape the lash?” )

          Who taught you that rational discernment (“judging “) was a dirty word, anyway?

          1. Obviously, you skipped a lot of the OT and NT.

            And don’t live in various combat zones known as Democrat run cities.

            Spend a few weeks there and report back (if you’re not before the Throne of God)

    2. The left vs right dichotomy is itself false. The rabbit hole of the “real” right lands you in cloud cuckooland.

      Mr. Wilder is on the right track with “principles” because people who have them are automatically protected from NPC chip reprogramming.

      Unfortunately, they are also required to have principles that are true, virtuous, good… You perceive. (See
      https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/19967-of-all-tyrannies-a-tyranny-sincerely-exercised-for-the-good if not)

      When the Authority, bound by Principle, *is* virtuous, one gets “The Closest School” (Here: https://archive.org/details/HoldingWonder – and you’re welcome)

      Quizzer and I were talking about the vicious cycle of a virtuous population on our drive home today. Our Republic was made for a God-fearing people. Without it, as Mrs. Hoyt’s grandma would say, “You can have a law in every heart, ir a policeman on every corner”

      This writer nails the problem: https://foundingquestions.wordpress.com/2022/11/29/nbc-nerd-fight-rights/#comments

  2. The Right has NPCs too.

    Putin was a KGB thug all along, and nobody’s friend. Trump blew away half his expeditionary air force in Syria over releasing chemical weapons to Assad, and wiped out a regiment of his “mercenary” troops when they crossed a line there, and everyone knew he was simply a dick-tater.

    Until Biden came out against him, and suddenly, Putin was Jesus’ little brother, heralding the Second Coming.
    If Emperor Stumblef**k Poopypants came out in favor of oxygen, all the right-wing NPCs would swear off of breathing.

    1. Aesop, please provide a link to Putin supplying chemical weapons to Assad.

      I promise (LOL) not to laugh at you when it’s the British Tabloid Daily Mirror again.

      1. Michael please provide your extensive knowledge of ht er Old and new Testament. and how that is relevant to living in a blue state ghetto. if one does it me he not they are stupid.

    2. Let me know, Mr. Aesop, when you have apologized to all the people who warned you that going along with cosplay face-muzzles and lockdowns were not only rubbish virology and physics but the precursor to medical fascism. They were right, and you mocked them for it.

      People denied cancer meds and children school unless they took the frankenshots can look to all of us who refused to take a stand.

      Only when you make amends you will have standing to inveigh against those who think Putin is Vladimir Konstantin the First* . Their folly is trivial compared to ours.

      The internecine fights between the world’s dictators and their satrapies are interesting, I’ll grant. But few of us have cause to piss on our neighbors here at the bottom for their opinions thereon.

      Does a man justify local or national obscenities based on his admiration (or despite) for one of the aristos overseas-? The more fool he, but the problem is not the specious justification.

      *I’m not ruling it out. Honk. Honk.

      1. overgrownhobbit,

        I told you before anyone else did why masking would never work, in specific detail. The entire post on the topic sits right where I left it, unscathed, and largely uncomprehended. If you need a link, I’ll provide it.
        I mocked people for being jackasses, because they are. I’ve made a living off of their jackassery for going on three decades, and no end in sight to my job security, because the jackassery will certainly outlive us all.

        And when people simp for things they cannot comprehend, because kneejerk, they’re still being jackasses, and anyone acting that ridiculous deserves the ridicule that follows.

        The quickest way those people can stop suffering cleat marks in their own junk, would be to stop stepping on their own junk with cleats.

        QED

    3. That’s a fair point, but it’s slightly different – I think the Right is naturally more critical of any sort of power, no matter who wields it. Ukraine is corrupt, and (as I’ve mentioned before) the world would be better off if each government in those countries was replaced with random school board members from Iowa.

      1. I beg to differ.
        Most school boards are corrupt. (They’re a Karen training academy, FFS.)

        The world would be better off if most school board members were sent to Ukraine.

        1. Well, ours are okay. I guess I forgot about the big city ones. Yeah, we could put the LA school board on either side of the line near the Dnieper. Without a jacket.

  3. One NPC reprogramming language is “ARTT” – the Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust.

    https://artt.cs.washington.edu/response/

    This is funded by the National Science Foundation, currently at $60 million:

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-pay-journalism-group-5m-to-create-software-to-turn-people-into-anti-misinformation-bots

    Check out the videos on their progress so far:

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGhBP1C7iCOlKk7pNWHP6BN7irpwy9z9Y

    Somehow this seems very Orwellian to me. Not sure how ARTT can stop CNN talking heads and Twitter from burying the valid NYT Post Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinfo…or stop current supression of mountains of inconvenient COVID evidence for Wuhan lab origin or “sudden death” vaccine injuries…or address the massive misleading media spin on drugs/immigration/crime statistics…or…or…or…

    Free speech and sunlight are our only hope. Nobody likes how sausage is made, but mis/dis/malinfo are necessary sausage ingredients. In the end truth, like cream, rises to the top.

  4. ‘I think they seek conformity with whatever the Narrative is, because to be outside of the Narrative is uncomfortable.

    At least that’s what I’ve come up with.’

    No need to second-guess. You have it. I do not exaggerate when I say that the Left — and the Right to lesser extent — is a Hive. Spiritually more insectoid, at this point, than human as humans originally were created.

    Dissent from Accepted Evil is difficult. Conformity is easy — the cow abides in the middle of the herd. The Department of Homeland Security was carefully named.

    Good catch on Trump’s attempt to re-program his audience to vax-friendly. Partly from political cynicism and agenda, but partly from megalomania. Donald imagines that whatever he does must therefore be right and righteous. He trotted out the Poison Vax Pogrom against the American people, so that must be a Good Thing. Right, everybody? lol

    As you say, it was a healthy sign that his own backers immediately put him in his place on vax wonderfulness. Which place, I assure you, he will not accept.

    1. Trump is good (generally) at understanding what his people won’t accept. He knows about the vaxx, now.

      1. Does he? I had not heard his reversal of his vax-championing. Do you have a cite showing evidence of this reversal?

        1. No, I don’t. He probably feels good about it inside, but he doesn’t talk about it in his rallies anymore.

          1. Now this, I could believe. No more pimping the vax as political strategy.

            He should put away his pride and learn from his constituency. Right now he is on my shitlist for the vax and for tipping out of D.C. and leaving his supporters to rot in jail. Can’t trust a man who’d do that.

  5. The loss of the ability to critically think for one’s self is one of the greatest losses of the last 10 years. Sadly, I do not see the sort of circumstances that will bring it back on a large scale.

    1. There is such a circumstance foreseeable in the near future. I call it “the great culling”. It can also be called the return of “Darwin” or “the Gods of the Copybook Headings”. Some degree of clear thinking is a base requirement of reality. It can be postponed for a time if it is subsidized, but the means to do that is not sustainable.

    2. We currently live in a time when “stupid should hurt”.
      We are about to enter the era when “stupid kills”.
      The latter will cull the tendency down rather ferociously, and none too soon for the survival of the species.
      It may not end the problem for all time, but a draconian solution with be harsh, but it will be inarguably entertaining.

    3. It will – trust is rapidly eroding, and the vaxx deaths will intensify it. Can’t wake everyone at once.

  6. “Heck, I don’t live in China, so I’m not sure I really care.”

    I’ll go you one better: I don’t live in China, so I’m damn sure I don’t care.

  7. The left will always vacillate. They will always be against whatever the conservatives are for.

  8. Critical thinking demands an education for some people. Unfortunately, the same people can be told they don’t need to have critical thinking and accept the premise.

  9. “We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”

    Douglas Adams nailed the left again and again in his four-part Hitchhiker’s Guide trilogy. Way ahead of his time. Has he been canceled yet?

  10. ” they seek conformity with whatever the Narrative is, because to be outside of the Narrative is uncomfortable.”

    — they conform instantly because in their world to be outside the narrative is DANGEROUS. It can cost you your job, your reputation, your kids, and your family. They see it, participate in enforcing it, and know in their hearts that it can be turned against themselves in a heartbeat.

    They are vulnerable and they know it. Funny to watch when they think they’re immune and find out differently.

    WRT believing anything, I’ve always thought this was pretty sharp–

    “When men stop believing in God they don’t believe in nothing; they believe in anything.”

    -GK Chesterton 1874–1936 English essayist, novelist, and poet

    I’m not particularly churchy, but I recognize the foundation of our culture.

    WRT programming NPCs, I’ll be interested to explore the links about ARTT further, but they are far from the only ones. There is a fraternity that teaches a technique called “Engineered Leadership” that involves understanding and manipulating people and group dynamics in specific ways to ‘guide’ the meeting or discussion. Carnegie had “How to Win Friends and Influence People”. Old school science fiction postulated a whole science dedicated to it (see Asimov and Poul Anderson.) More recent fiction (I think Neil Stephenson writing under his pen name) had political speechwriters using words and phrases that would mean one thing to their supporters and something entirely different to their detractors based on survey results and psychology. Other people will teach techniques that work in a more one-on-one setting, like mirroring, that I’m sure have wider application.

    Progressives believe man can be changed, ‘improved’ and they won’t stop trying. SEL in schools (social and emotional learning) is their latest project.

    Conservatives need to recognize and fight against the attempts to change our society.

    nick

  11. The left will always be about “the current thing”. Until “the next current thing” is fashionable.

    When you have a mass of people that do not possess critical thinking skills, coupled with lower IQs and daily pot smoking, well, what type of behavior would you expect?

  12. The sheep will always follow where they are led.
    The sheep have been taught to bleat on command.
    The shepherd may care for the flock, but only to garner more mutton and wool.

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