October 16th, 2018 5:41 PM AGENCY MUST BE TRAINED by Brandon Hayes
[A]gency has to be fostered and trained. We can develop systems to promote it. Having an agency based (propertarian) framework is a great first step. Teach people to view the world in a reciprocal fashion. We teach dogs to be helpful; I can teach even an objectively bad dog to not be a burden.
October 16th, 2018 5:39 PM NPCs? NOT SO SIMPLE… by Ely Harman
It’s not as simple as “NPC bad!” There are NPCs on our side too. Most conservatives are NPCs. The issue is most people lack the agency (awareness) for self-ownership, sovereignty, enfranchisement, or any number of related, partially overlapping, terms. That doesn’t mean they can’t be good, functional, members of society. It just means they can’t be in charge of it. Making a pretense of putting NPCs in charge (through universal franchise democracy or whatever) is just a sham way of putting whoever can pull their levers (media, academia, etc…) In charge. And that’s simply not worth doing for a variety of complex reasons mostly having to do with issues of accountability or “skin in the game.”
October 16th, 2018 8:25 PM THE NEW YORK TIMES ON THE NPC MEME (Edited) -What is an NPC?- NPC means ânonplayable characterâ or ânonplayer character.â Itâs a term, borrowed from the world of video games, for a character that is controlled by the computer rather than by a player. An NPC often advances the gameâs plot by saying scripted lines, or assisting the playable characters in some way. -What does this have to do with politics?- Several months ago, users on 4chan and Reddit, started using the term NPC to refer to liberals. Liberals, they said, join the anti-Trump crowd not because they are led by independent thought or conscience to oppose President Trumpâs policies, but because theyâre brainwashed sheep who have been conditioned to parrot left-wing orthodoxy, in the manner of a scripted character. A Reddit user, explains the appeal of the meme: “NPCs are completely dependent on their programming, and canât do or think on their own.â –Is there more to the NPC meme?– Sort of. There is NPC Wojak â a crudely drawn, gray cartoon avatar with a pointy nose and a blank face. NPC Wojak is a variation of Wojak, an old cartoon (also known as âfeels guyâ) that represents the mindless liberal, and has become a kind of collective mascot for the far-right commenters online, to use to ridicule the left. —And this is a thing ⦠why?— A group of young, extremely pro-Trump internet trolls have spent the past several years mocking anti-Trump people as whiny, easily triggered snowflakes who are primarily motivated by social acceptance rather than by logic and critical thinking. Many of Mr. Trumpâs supporters put their support for him in the language of freethinking rationality and paint the other side as being motivated by blind loyalty and identity politics. (Which is True.) This NPC meme fits neatly into this narrative and offers Mr. Trumpâs online supporters … (Actually it’s not that they’re trump supporters but using Trump to retaliate against social justice warriors: NPC’s) … an easy shorthand way to paint liberals as humorless prudes (‘bots’) who say âDrumpfâ because the HBO host John Oliver told them to, who march in protests and put on pink âpussyhatsâ because theyâre the popular things to do, and whose views canât withstand scrutiny. (Because they’re just scripts.) And then, when progressives object to a meme that portrays them as unthinking automatons, it becomes another piece of evidence: See? The left canât take a joke. — So? — Mostly, it appears to be a 4chan joke that spiraled into some mild voter suppression. And no, they’re not russian bots. Sigh.
October 16th, 2018 5:41 PM AGENCY MUST BE TRAINED by Brandon Hayes
[A]gency has to be fostered and trained. We can develop systems to promote it. Having an agency based (propertarian) framework is a great first step. Teach people to view the world in a reciprocal fashion. We teach dogs to be helpful; I can teach even an objectively bad dog to not be a burden.
AGENCY MUST BE TRAINED
by Brandon Hayes
Agency has to be fostered and trained. We can develop systems to promote it. Having an agency based (propertarian) framework is a great first step. Teach people to view the world in a reciprocal fashion. We teach dogs to be helpful; I can teach even an objectively bad dog to not be a burden.
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-16 17:41:00 UTC
NPCs? NOT SO SIMPLE…
by Ely Harman
It’s not as simple as “NPC bad!”
There are NPCs on our side too. Most conservatives are NPCs. The issue is most people lack the agency (awareness) for self-ownership, sovereignty, enfranchisement, or any number of related, partially overlapping, terms.
That doesn’t mean they can’t be good, functional, members of society. It just means they can’t be in charge of it.
Making a pretense of putting NPCs in charge (through universal franchise democracy or whatever) is just a sham way of putting whoever can pull their levers (media, academia, etc…) In charge.
And that’s simply not worth doing for a variety of complex reasons mostly having to do with issues of accountability or “skin in the game.”
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-16 17:39:00 UTC
October 15th, 2018 11:03 AM NPCs, AND THEIR METHOD OF RESISTANCE [O]ne of the NPCs traits is to rely on Euphemism when it suits them and Literalism when it suits them, but then attack the use of Euphemism or Literalism by opponents when it doesn’t. As always, an NPC simply withdraws consent to agree no matter what, by whatever excuse possible, as a means of avoiding continuous, recursive, cooperative pursuit of decidability (the truth) that would require that they change their prior bias and commitment. You do not have to be intelligent to engage in this form of non-cooperation-by -continuous-denial. You just have to find a way to disagree and prevent progress to decidability NPC’s merely transmit and imitate means of denying cooperation on the discovery of decidability (truth) and resist all attempts at discovery of decidability. It is by this method the Herd ‘sticks together’ and is not ‘divided’ by reason, truth, science, argument, morality, reciprocity or any other criteria. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute
October 15th, 2018 11:03 AM NPCs, AND THEIR METHOD OF RESISTANCE [O]ne of the NPCs traits is to rely on Euphemism when it suits them and Literalism when it suits them, but then attack the use of Euphemism or Literalism by opponents when it doesn’t. As always, an NPC simply withdraws consent to agree no matter what, by whatever excuse possible, as a means of avoiding continuous, recursive, cooperative pursuit of decidability (the truth) that would require that they change their prior bias and commitment. You do not have to be intelligent to engage in this form of non-cooperation-by -continuous-denial. You just have to find a way to disagree and prevent progress to decidability NPC’s merely transmit and imitate means of denying cooperation on the discovery of decidability (truth) and resist all attempts at discovery of decidability. It is by this method the Herd ‘sticks together’ and is not ‘divided’ by reason, truth, science, argument, morality, reciprocity or any other criteria. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute
October 15th, 2018 11:30 AM
NPC’S USE SPEECH TO HIDE [F]or the NPCs, Speech serves the same function as stripes on a zebra: something to hide behind. The pack provides a test of merit. Merit by which the individual separated from the herd will fail.
RT @dagmar_schmitt: @curtdoolittle They do, but they also use speech primarily as a system for sending 2 key signals, namely “I am one of t…
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-15 16:29:36 UTC
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