As someone who is 1/20th or so Irish, it’s no surprise to me that you’re proud of that fact but for the love of all that is peaceful and holy DO NOT resurrect that near me please!
Because all the fucking ulster-scots players kept whinging that the Irish players were farming NPCs. I mean come on the ulster-scots were doing the same!!! the admins are corrupt
You showed a slide of a hospital where the administrators make millions, while a doctor starting out would make in the low to mid 100,000’s with a tremendous student loan burden. My hospital was taken over by a larger hospital and they decided to kick all the physicians in my department out. You were then invited to apply for your own job, but I never got the courtesy of any response to my re-application. So I looked for another job and when I found it I was told I had to stay until the end of the year so as not to “burn any bridges”. I had a family to feed and did not want to risk being unemployed in the new year. I had worked in that place for 15 years and this was how they treated doctors. Like disposable commodities.
Open your own practice. I'm a software engineer with about 20 years experience, and over time I've learned that working for big companies pays well but it tends to be boring and tedious and will treat you as disposable, and they are even worse to deal with as a customer, as they produce bureaucratic buggy crap. The most enjoyable software projects I've ever worked on was building stuff from relative scratch as a small team. The best products seem to be from such as well, and I can tell you with very few exceptions that the AAA high profile games are usually trash, and the real gyms are made by small highly dedicated teams. Given how my big hospital doctor lied to my face and was rude and pushy during covid, and many other factors, I'd rather have a doctor or two in a small business practice that I can know, and who I know will have more autonomy in their lives. As far as I can tell, small businesses and proprietors seem to be what I want to deal with now in almost all aspects of life. Big organizations are to Kafkaesque and untrustworthy. And try getting somebody from one on the phone, navigating mazes of menu's to prevent you from talking to an actual person.
Australia, country that bans crossbow, locked everyone during covid, including people who just wanted to leave, and country that bans games and shows because it's "improper. It's a prison of a nation i think.
@@WalkdplankfrankIt's rather difficult to live in 'Murica. Being able to think, say and do whatever I feel like doing at any particular moment is a horrible thing to be burdened with. I wish I lived in Upside-down Kangaroo Land like you, that way the government can do most of my thinking for me. 😂
@@TheJeremyKentBGross So many people hate private practitioners for literally no reason. If you're not part of a giant medicare deal or hospital then they'll be an infinite amount of obstacles in your way... and then you get to deal with lousy patients. I get that one bad doctor can really screw up a person's future perspectives on doctors, but it's pretty bad now. "Privatized healthcare" is considered the devil to a lot of people.
"January 6th never happened"!? I haven't heard of this. I have heard and believe that January 6th was not a coup attempt, just a protest and not historically significant. The only person killed was a protester shot by police. If the Right ever decides to make a coup attempt in the United States, you can bet your bottom dollar that they will be armed. These bozos who invaded the capitol building were unarmed. Trans and Palestinian protesters storm capitols all the time and we barely even hear about it on the news. So this has been blown way, way out of proportion.
As for the "storming the capital". I watched a live stream as it happened. Where the capitol police opened a door for the "invaders" and asked them to come in. As the group was walking past the entrance. One of the voices in the video said "I think this is a bad idea". I ask. Whose idea it was, Pelosi? In any case. The narrative is bullshit.
It’s pretty amazing how many people believe that a handful of unarmed protesters managed to infiltrate one of the most heavily secured areas/ buildings in the world after 911. It absolutely blew my Even my mother bought into it!
I think life as a peasant was a lot less boring than you think. Summers spent outdoors working with friends, winters spent indoors making handicrafts with family. Socialization is one of the greatest time-passers because it is extremely complex, being the literal reason that we have such large brains.
@@gregsmith7949probably depends on where they were. That's probably the case for European peasants, but I'd imagine the work would've been close to year-round in the rice-growing areas of the world
there was this RUclipsr (I forget the name and I'm still searching for it), who did a video on primitive society and anti-Natalism. He apparently found he wasn't happy with society in general. and marked it up to modern civilization being a problem for him. After talking with therapists he wasn't given much help in feeling any better, the best help he got came from a few who said he should try to live in a primitive society. He traveled across the country to join some kind of primitive commune thing in a national park. He hated it because the same problems were still present there, no connections, no identity, no autonomy. all this pooled with the fact he slept in the dirt and was exposed to the cold nights with minimal shelter. After returning home he'd made a bit of a realization about himself. He hated living primitive but enjoyed traveling from town to town working part-time for a little bit and then moving on. He had more joy in the autonomy he had living in a car and working a job he could walk away from if he didn't like Than he ever did living primitive. He also talked about other stuff in the video, I've been searching for it for months now and can't find it. Edit: someone found it. It was: Talkin'bouts - civilized to death.
@@kevinhixson1586 I feel as if it may be a universal feeling. I discovered that video, because I did the 'isolationist' thing and had an epiphany as well. I hope you find the one you seek, it sounds interesting.
One thing I noticed when I went to Papua New Guinea, one of the most undeveloped places left, is that the people who lived in isolated villages and straw huts surviving off the land were happy and cheerful to one another. Then you go to the big cities and notice it’s the opposite. That made me think for a while now that the pursuit of capital as a pathway for life satisfaction is an illusion set up by the system we live in. Sure you want to live comfortably, but past that material possessions mean nothing.
Yes that’s because missionaries help them with agriculture so they could grow enough sweet potatoes to live before that they were eating each other as late as the 1950s and 60s. Just an interesting historical fact.
@@seaneustace9838 that was an astonishing fact I was exposed to just yesterday from a recent Scott Mys podcast with a Suzanne Alexander. She was visiting tribes in PNG and the islands studying diet. The sweet potato consumers were mentioned but absolutely no context was given. In light of your comment this is now a slightly puzzling oversight (ignorance?) given she restored her health via ruminant meat and the overall theme of the channel is carnivore.
And in Lagos, Nigeria, joyful kids in the slums on the water swim in the same water that the public outhouse empties into. A cheerful resident happily laughs that the children don't get sick and admit it might be their closeness to Jesus and prayer for health. Happiness is certainly not related to consumption and living an NPC existence. It seems to be related to the first and second commandments.
When my family lived in an apartment, we had the cops called on us for our kids playing outside. When we moved into a house in the burbs, the same exact thing happened again. Now we live in the middle of nowhere with only two nearby neighbors and it's perfect
Yeah thats a weird american problem, The phenomenon of stranger danger, was really bad for society. In modt European places, or the rest of the world, nobody would care.
I feel so bad for kids growing up in most of this country. I grew up in Northern Michigan and we all played outside all day with no problems. Also, the population was 99% white and crime was almost non existent.
I remember my pastor in the 90s was telling us about modernity. He knew it would be soul crushing, people would on,y live to chase pleasure, and sin would be celebrated. He thought it would take 50-100 years, but we’ve been speedrunning it.
@@dr.vonslifeinvesting6485 Yep. If you take the 200-year cycle for civilisations I wasn't expecting the West to fail until the 2060's (if you consider the end of the US Civil War as the beginning and the Moon Landing as its apex). The internet and instant communication fast forwarded the decline.
What a load of bullcrap. People were always living to chase pleasure, he wasn't giving you any news. Some guys society thinks of as messiahs j knew that over 2k years ago. That pastor just gave you the usual "it's the end of the world speech" that American pastors love to give. It was already happening. Its just now you see it more coz of live TV.
"Every layer of modern society treats you like a cog you go to a bureaucratic school, you work in a giant company you date through an app, you die in a retirement home."
The Boomers went through all of this in the 60s.They just couldn't articulate it as well. The sad thing is, eventually they chose the materialism in the end. The very thing they lamented against.
They still had a lot more going for them back then. It was easier to get a job, get educated, buy a house, meet new people, the list goes on. You have to put in about 10 times the effort to accomplish any of those things these days. They lived in a society held up by a bunch of WWII veterans. We live in a society held up by boomers.
I'm 40, one of the biggest disappointments in my life was realising that openness was a trait and not very common. Openness combined with intelligence is a curse. It means not only are you unhappy, but you know why, and that you have almost no agency to truly fix it. edit: I guess I should qualify that I didn't mean I'm constantly miserable day to day and don't have friends. Just that you're aware of some of the fundamental issues with the world, but feel like it's too far gone to put right. I live quite well and can be happy, but it's in spite of reality rather than being ignorant to it.
it takes a long time, and meeting lots of people, before you stumble on a few people that share those traits. Usually they are just as eager to find deeper friends as you are.
Are you me? I often catch myself analyzing if an activity or possession will bring me any happiness. The normies seem to enjoy the thing, why can't I? -I didn't enjoy the thing
"I am not a gamer" "I've only sunk thousands of hours into strategy games." "I haven't played games with NPCs" "I've played tons of Skyrim" Dude, you ARE A GAMER.
Some of the stuff this dude says, he is very dismissive, as if there is a black-hole of meaning that he refuses to acknowledge or think about... For instance "I haven't seen any evidence that the election was stolen" Kind of stupid to say that you haven't seen any evidence of election tampering. You may not have seen any "proof", sure. But there is evidence all around you, you have to be an NPC to discount it out of hand. How many "historic firsts" were involved in the 2020 election? From the number of people to vote, to the fact that the person they were voting for was/is visibly and obviously brain-damaged. To the covid crisis causing people to use mail-in ballots en masse, employing a literal ballot stuffing strategy, which is seen on camera many times over. To the fact that google literally stole the election, on its own, in a 100% objectively undeniable way via algorithmic manipulations. Just because that wasn't technically "illegal", or associated directly with a political party, you "don't see it as evidence"? So it is irrelevant? Why do you think it is that the entire process is so opaque? The idea that we have free and fair elections is an NPC delusion. Why would the bureaucracy leave itself open to evisceration at any moment? When we know, that if it had the power to prevent that from happening, it would, at all costs?
The definition for gamer is often pushed to be looser than other hobbies due to the disdain gamers have from the media. They want to make actual gamers irrelevant. Non gamers who dont understand gaming culture assume gamers want the definition to be more strict and narrow out of snobbery or elitism, but its really due to just a shared culture and underatanding of many things. Nobody thinks someone is an athlete because they played 100s of games of football, basketball, and tennis durinf highschool. Nobody calls everyone who watched a couple hundred movies in their life a film enthusiest. Nobody calls someone who prefers cooking themself dinner instead of eating out a chef. Think about that when you think gamers may not neccesarily think someone who played a handful of games a gamer. They arent being intolerant, the people who accuse them of being so ARE. A gamer is someone who knows what hitboxes, s, rotations, quickscoping, input lag, etc is. They know what it means to have no romance in their youth because they preferred games over dates. They think about how to change their strategy or their builds WHILE they are at work or school. They can probably tell what game someone is talking about in public even if they never mentioned a character name, game name, or whatever, even if they never even played the game themselves. To clarify Im not saying you arent a gamer if you didnt play at least x games for y hours. But if you dont think you are a gamer, then you arent. As for the people who say they are a gamer that arent. Generally its the people who care more about social media clout that dunks on gamers and thinks gamers suck. They arent gamers either because an actual gamer knows how ostracizes they are, how ACTUALLY inclusive they are, and wouldnt want to be yet another of the millions that dogpile on them.
My suggestion is that do dopamine fasting, once the brain neurons wiring return to the lowest expectation then give some comfort would give you more happiness otherwise it's going numb.
The 90s felt like there was a future, the 00s you saw your parents afraid for the future, the 10s you began to fear for the future, and the 20s you’re the close as humanity has been to it since the 60s.
Bro you are one of the most unique perspectives on this app like no one else would think to post a video like this. thanks for being one of the best on here.
@@WhatifAltHistYou’re younger than me??? Being in a 1 month coma totally flipped my life, for either better or worse 🤷♂️ Although, to bring this bizarre comment back to what redbrick6885 said. I really appreciate your videos 😌
I have lived in the same town almost my entire life. The friends I made moved on. The forests I grew up in are being cut down for subdivisions full of standardized homes with no character. My boss is an abstraction because all of my assignments happen through a online job board. I'm going back into an industrial scale secondary education institution that has campuses scattered around the burgeoning megalopolis to complete the educational requirements for a professional license in the desperate hope I can obtain enough money to make something of my life. All of those classes are online post-COVID so I need to go out of my way to form professional relationships. The best plan I have right now for long term happiness and the hope of a wife and children is to make enough money to leave the only I place I've truly known for the chance of better prospect, like my Scot-Irish and French ancestors did in the 1700s. The only reason my world is merely brutal and not completely bleak is because I have a family, a religion, and because I'm part of a local social club. Those three things keep life from being a desperate struggle.
Must be really cool to watch the downfall of modern civilization being a historian Also I think it's time to change the channel name to Whatifactualhist
I love the channel, but I disagree with his extreme pessimism. I don't see any signs of the downfall of our civilization. Our problems are small compared to the problems of previous civilizations.
@@ElekuI disagree. Mainly because of the birthrate which is a ticking time bomb and a problem that has yet to been solved by any industrial nation. Immigration will be a band-aid solution to this but this isn’t a sustainable model.
Sometimes I think people expect too much from life. I spend most days grateful that the whole thing doesn’t fall apart and explode into a million pieces. The fact that there’s civilization at all blows my mind.
I’m too negative for that, but I’m sure gratefulness 24 seven is the best way to live. I’m not denying that it’s a true and real perspective. Just one that I find hard.
Definitely a good way to look at it but it’s hard to accept because we’re brought up expecting the that we’ll be great and have it all so we’re underwhelmed when we do actually grow up.
As someone growing up in a small village next to a beautiful forest, with no expectations but to be myself, joining society has been hugely traumatizing for me. I had this beautiful and mystical view of the world, and felt like I could just trust anyone… It all fell apart piece by piece like a big lie over my teenage years. I still hold on to that vision, but I just can’t deny the corrupt bigotry that’s happening everywhere around me. Now I’m literally obsessed with economy, politics and especially history to make sense of this society, but once I have the resources I need you’ll see me moving off grid permaculture style.
I also used to live in a small town and when I moved to a city it's been rough yesterday I was chased down my own street by a old man and big women telling me to go back to where I come from can't even take a walk without horrible stuff happening
FWIW I'm 51 and most of my adult life I've been trying to tell younger people "It's not just going to just be OK, the authorities lied to you" and for most of my life I've been labeled a misanthrope, or whatever insulting descriptor sits opposite of each authority figure's alignment. I've gotten through to about 7 people, and these have become some of my most trusted friends.
If you just warn them, then they will learn the world is cruel not when they grow up, but from now on. You shouldn't just scare people, you need to come up with tomething better. Sadly, I haven't yet.
I'm 27 and I definitely see it. The memories of the world before phones are glorious, I was maybe 7 years old but I remember, people just had more time for one another and they actually cared. Now everyone is stuck on their screens. I got rid of my phone and so my friends got rid of me, it was inconvenient to them. That's how stupid spoiled people are, they're absorbed in a bubble and don't realize what they're doing because everyone is doing the same thing. It's horde behavior. I chose not to be part of that and suddenly you can no longer function even though I'm human just like them but also not like them... it's weird. It's like trying to explain to a zombie that they're a zombie and I'm not sick they are sick... But all zombies want to do is eat your brains and they don't care, they're in that brain eating mindset.
@@timspikerYour friends are smart and you overestimated your position in their life. You are a hassle they can do without so they did as it’s not like they don’t have other friends that don’t make communication hard. They aren’t zombies you are just a contrarian that expects people to cater to your odd demands.
@@badart3204 see, you are like everyone else. It's not difficult to communicate trough email, times, locations, appointments. You are spoiled and willing to sacrifice life over it. That is the difference. Inconveniences are everywhere in life and mine's the phone and theirs is a person, this is the core difference between moral decisions and materialism.
I only have 2 major criticisms of this video. Otherwise, it's a solid take. I'm a 48 year old right leaning independent, and i stopped being scared of covid after doing the math of the deaths from CDC numbers. I wouldn't take the vaccine no matter who was in office. It's untested and not worth the risk by using the numbers to assess the risk of dying from covid. My neighbors job forced him to take it, and he had 2 strokes shortly after. Most conservatives i know wouldn't take the vaccine if Trump was president upon its release. Secondly, the majority of conservatives against the Ukraine war know Ukraine is an authoritarian country like Russia, and we don't want to fund either side due to their corruption. We have our own financial issues and security concerns that are not being addressed, but we are printing money, which causes inflation, to fund defending a corrupt country with financial ties to our presidents family, while not securing our own border. It's not partisanship. It's that we are tired of funding never-ending wars while our citizens receive no help and the tax funded bill for these wars. Otherwise, it's a solid video. You're very insightful for being in your early 20's.
Well stated on both topics. We know that Ukraine had killed 14,000 people (says the UN) in the Donbass regions between 2014 and 2021, and the same logic that the US used to bomb Serbia in 1999 was used by Putin to launch the SMO in Feb 2022. Not our problem. And the flaws of the jab clinical trial are so egregious that it turns the stomach of a medical professional like me. Glad to hear you avoided it.
No we don't want to fund Ukraine because then Ukraine will get trapped in the same neoliberalism we are. They're going to be a client state no matter what, better for them to be under a sane country than whatever we are.
My opinion, it's because he's a logical, decent human. And in this world currently, to be logical and decent forces you to be based because everything else is.. Subpar to be polite.
Whatifalthist, Leather Apron Club and Metatron are the based triumvirate pushing back against the narratives set by Marxist "historians" like Atun-Shei.
@@ToastyChudpol is always right. No exceptions. Always. I didn’t choose to be obsessed with truth but our world forces everyone to the right of stalin into the based path.
I usually just don't care enough to get into a more meaningful conversation with most people so I probably end up just doing the surface level npc conversation when forced to speak with people
I too suffer from crippling apathy for the most part -- but that also tends to get me into prodding and playing with people by steering convos into some seriously weird places and studying their reactions . People are fascinating when pressed but absolutely mind numbingly boring on average .
I'm similar. Especially at work, I basically operate on auto pilot... And my social auto pilot is pretty bad. Everyone at work just thinks I'm a shy person or something. In reality, I would consider myself a bit of an extrovert.
But what kind of conversations do you expect to have at a convenience store or a Cafe? It goes without saying that you aren't going to find deep emotional interactions there.
love how it used to be an alternate history channel, and now its more about denouncing hypocrisy and stupidity not complaining though, kinda seem like the natural outcome of the world we live in
As someone who managed a company with 300 odd staff… i can say around 3/4 are npc’s. And the ones that are not often tend to keep their head down so that the npc hoard doesn’t turn on them.
@@LEONSKENNEDY91 many have awakened to the fact that the fake news/legacy media/MSM is nothing more than a tool of the permanent political class that exists within yesteryears now irrelevant modern "mass society". We're in the new postmodern "network society". They've lost the ability to control the flow of information and in turn lost the ability to manipulate and lie to me masses.
99% of schools teaches children to be NPCs, usually people who were ostrasized or seen as deviant for various reasons can unplug and see learn (unschool yourself) to see the world for what it is.
Mate at least schools were originally made to teach people how to be productive and useful. If no one did normal jobs even 50 years ago we’d be beyond fucked.
@@Star.Chasernot to be rude by any means,but in a more detailed look into the roots of the education system, school in the traditional way we know it as was created for there to be more lower class workers prior to the industrial revolution to keep the economy going,in simplified terms. if we go back further in time,the original system is from ancient rome,where the point was to create individuals who were physically strong and capable so they could partake in the army,but also develop an eloquent speech and ability to debate so they could be participating members of their democratic society. of course,neither versions are perfect,but the current one inherently places one's worth on whether their abilities are profitable in a capitalistic world,which is inherently wrong because humans all have different sets of capabilities,some of which are not "profitable",especially creative fields, and philosophically every individual has inherent worth to them. tl,dr; school does not exist to create 'useful' citizens,just profitable ones.
@@caringheart34 so? it was still just fact. the point of my comment was saying that school doesn't create 'useful' citizens,it creates profitable ones. but I'm assuming you forgot to take a look at how i made no implication that schools have to be 'unprofitable' and mostly missed the point of my reply. my comment was made in an entirely neutral tone,stating only historical facts that have proven true so far in order to correct the former statement between profit and usefulness.
I prefer the way I used the term since 2006. Long before it meant what it does now. I didn't always use it as an insult. It was just a way to refer to a person in the background who you have minimal to no interaction with, isn't well known by you or society as a whole, or does anything particularly memorable in that moment. It was also relative. All but the most famous (or infamous) of us were NPCs to someone else. Like being part of the audience at a movie theater. When it was used as an insult, it really had nothing to do with being incompetent. Just relatively ordinary. For example, Navy Seals compared to the common, random Military Police seen on a base.
I’m 50 and it really messed me up when I found out a few years ago that some people don’t have an inner dialogue. A lot of things clicked into place for me from the past when I found that out.
Those people can still process and do stuff. They're programmers and stuff. What should blow you away is that people with like 90 and below IQs can't imagine scenarios. If you said "What would you have done if you hit a deer on your way to work today?" And they can't process it. They'll just respond with stuff like "I didn't hit a deer today".
That sounds like the theory of the bicameral mind and one of its main points was that religion and god(s) were providing the equivalent of the "inner dialogue" and as science took over more parts of society more people started developing more of their own individual inner dialogue, allowing more individuals to imagine what they would do if they hit a deer on the way to work, rather than imagining that god would be speaking to them and telling them what to do.
Ironically one of the messages of the Matrix trilogy is that humans and machines are symbiotic but the machines also know that some humans cannot handle living in an artificial world so to deal with the problem they just factor this into their mechanical plan by giving the humans both an outlit, a faith, and a messiah figure for the humans that cant handle the artifical world only to purge them when they hit a critical mass.
This video exactly explains what I’ve tried to tell other people. The thing is, I don’t need money or wealth, I just want to own a place and have a humble life. But everyone my age is obsessed with material crap. I spend $150-$200 a month on “want” goods, most of which is fishing gear and concert tickets.
We're lonely cuz we're just scolling on social media, no longer going out or interact. We're fat cuz we don't exercise and eat absolute friggin garbage. We're miserable and cynical because of the first two. You can just stop scrolling, go out and get in shape..gives you two less reasons to be miserable and cynical?
The reason "NPC" is such a compelling description for so many people, is they respond in such incredibly predictable ways. Bring up any subject in conversation, and you can predict word for word what they will say - it will be whatever the corporate/mainstream/regime media said about that subject most recently. It becomes striking when you realize, "Orange man bad" or "diversity is our strength" is really just the same verbal tick as "I took an arrow to the knee" and "Do you get to the cloud district often?"
Women are the most easily predictable with the things they say. The relationship podcasts make it real easy for the hosts cuz they get hit with the same shit over and over again.
@@sonnyb7612 to quote Orwell's 1984: "It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy."
Exactly. An NPC's media digest can be essentially likened to programming updates. And that's basically the extent of the applicability of the meme - the superficial resemblance of an ideologically captured individual to an NPC. Whatifalthist largely misses the point by trying to go too deep into it.
Thats what frustrates me most as a Christian conservative. Most "Conservatives" are just anti-leftists. They dont create any of there own culture and dont seem to think rationally beyond the current group consensus. Im voting for Trump, but every now and again he has a policy hiccup. I rightfully criticize it and immediately get the " are you a traitor" stare.
Modern fashion at first confused me, but when i learned that people actually think ‘OFF WHITE’ ‘SHOES’ looked good it became clear people are too conditioned by advertisements to not become one, as the saying goes: “You become what you put your attention to”. these people became advertisements.
Yep, I'll never wear anything with a loud logo. At least not if I'm paying for it. But we know people wear that stuff as a status symbol rather than fashion. Completely ignorant of the fact that it is peak NPC attire.
“You become what you put your attention to” kinda sounds like the saying “you become what you think about” from Earl nightingale’s “The Strangest Secret” and I think it’s just different ways of saying the same thing, interesting stuff. By the way, look up the strangest secret by earl nightingale, it can help you be better
@@Fgway I know what you’re saying, but now I’m just confused, so let me get this straight, logo goods used to be discounted to encourage their adoption because they used to not be popular, and now we’re dealing with the ramifications of them being popular?
Moral of this: Stay out of urban hellholes😂 But seriously, avoid these types and hang out with more down-to-earth people and also imbibe good culture and traditions.
Man, I grew up outside an urban hellhole, dreamed of an urban hellhole until I was in my late teens, moved to an urban hellhole at the first opportunity, and you couldn’t pay me to move back. Fuck, I wouldn’t even move to a large town unless it was going to quintuple the size of my house and have a sub-10 minute cheap commute back into the city. Idk where your head is on this, and more power to you, go get it, but small town folk are on average the most mind numbing, un-creative people I’ve ever met, I’ve legitimately had more interesting interactions with pigeons in urban parks than with some of my closest neighbours in my home town. /Those/ people are NPCs, jesus christ.
Be wary of people who attempt to flee those urban hellholes as they often bring with them the mentality that led to the manifestations of those urban hellholes in the first place.
Goethe did not invent physiognomy, it dates back to at least the ancient Greeks. A guy named porphyry writes that Pythagoras practiced it on prospective students to decide if they were worthy
Also didn't that thing had a success rate of like over 70% ? If you ask me that is a pretty high success rate for something that would be considered "discriminating","baseless" in our modern society
He’s always been my favorite “villain” for his use of art to study his enemies. Books were great. Even enjoyed the new ones a lot until the most recent one…seemed like it was more about that girl Chiss than him.
I came the channel a long time ago for the ideas, the verbal eloquence and the comprehensive relevant background knowledge. But it has to be said, the videos are by far the best monologue narratives on the internet: important art, long forgotten political posters, evocative archive photographs, crucial maps, telling charts and informative _text wall_ footnotes. Truly great and memorable in all dimensions.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the whole NPC thing came around because there are some ppl out there who don't have an internal monologue. They don't hear a voice inside their head. Their mind is literally blank and they simply just exist. That's where it began anyway.
I remember a quote that a greek philosopher said ( i think it was plato) that said a slave is something like a body with no agency. They arent animals but they arent people either
Correct, that is the source of the meme. There are also people who can not 'see' in their imagination either, if they try to picture something or think back to a memory they just don't get anything. They may remember what happened or be able to understand what the thing they're trying to picture should be like, but not see it in their mind But that was the start of the 'npc' meme, which then started getting applied to people who only got their opinions from the news. And then it expanded a bit more
"A man chooses, a slave obeys." -Andrew Ryan (Bioshock) If you live your life in fear of what random people on the internet say about you, then you're doomed to be enslaved to them.
@@XenusSerathiiIcelon I'm actually one of the people who has no ability to 'see' in my imagination and was surprised to learn that others have this ability. However this doesn't preclude someone from being an independent thinker. Just because we can't mentally visualize doesn't mean that we can't have abstract thoughts. In fact I find that I think more critically about the world than most people around me. I guess this is similar to how blind people end up sharpening their other senses so they can still engage with the world.
As a person who has lived his entire life in a rural area People will often forget about any dumb things you did when you were younger because they don't care
Somehow, that scares me even further. Like total indifference, if your actions dont mean anything to anyone, does that mean you were not even there? Its like that saying: "if people rememebered you even existed 2 yrs after you died, consider your life a victory" but thats still pretty horrible and the lowest common denominator...😢
It's so weird to me hearing that most other people grew up being told to follow their dreams and that they could become whatever they wanted to be. I was told incessantly that the important thing was that whatever I did, I should work my hardest and do the best that I could. I don't know how many times growing up that if I ended up a ditch digger, I should be the hardest working ditch digger. I was a hard-working software engineer for 30 years and I retired early. I look back on my life and am satisfied, and I owe a lot of it to that upbringing.
Lol u Dunning-kruger showcase, you don't even know 0.01% of channels on yt yet openly delude yourself into thinking you know how much 'good ones' there are
All I can say is its a little disheartening watching someone make my yearly income in one day 💀💀 Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
But at what cost -- don't forget they may be grifting lots of money but at the cost of their own integrity , honor , morality , etc . Their souls are tattered sh1t-stained rags and there is no putting the toothpaste back into that tube .
There's people who make 100k per minute, but that doesn't make me unhappy with the 50k or so I make per year. Sure it could be more, but I'm not really lacking anything, I have my own house, a wife, my own social life. I wouldn't want to give that up and work 100+ hours per week for a decade to make a shot at earning millions per week.
I distinctly remember the day I stopped feeling like the main character and like an NPC instead. That was before the craze and actually helped me psychologically working in support roles. I’m a way it helped me find my niche and be comfortable with it. Then s year or two later the “Oblivion NPC” videos started and now…ice cream so gooood
Don't worry people that are like the "main characters" are the ones pushing the destruction of the world. NPCs are just people that exist and live their life. They don't need to be special in order to gain worthless attention from others
Always felt like a main character, but a very low level one. I actually envy NPCs. Unfortunately, I only want to be one in a game I design. And that isn't going to happen without hired muscle who doesn'task questions, a legal team to put Disney's to shame and an obscene amount of grant money.
No matter the race. I could NEVER respect, or be friends with someone who hates or is ashamed of their race. Your race is apart of who you are as a person, and is 1 of the things i appreciate about you. Being ashamed of that in a way, diminishes some of the unique qualities (respect, self respect, and honor) i'd look for in a friend.
@@scholaroftheworldalternatehistBut they don't. You can only believe that if you haven't met people. Some folks are *incredibly* simple. It feels nice to say "we're all the same" with our complexity, but that's just more modernist claptrap like in the video.
@@scholaroftheworldalternatehistMaybe, but their reponses to the complexities of their lives are often different. I'm actually jelaous of NPCs in that aspect, since they seem to be better adapted to the weird world we live in.
It's very simple: most people don't like to think. It's part of why society at large hates talking about politics; it challenges them to think about the world. These people like to go through life riding the wave and getting soothed by material comforts and following the first thing that pops into their head which is usually purposefully put their by society or companies. To actually think about things is uncomfortable and takes effort. Most people are, in fact, NPCs.
But doesn’t really we had a fake pandemic that shut everyone down took kids out of school and destroyed businesses. Can such people that were affected by such things really think they’re in control? His point is factual regarding the boomers in the area. They grew up in, but in light of everything that has happened over the last five years I think we have passed out of that world, and as for the boomers old dogs, new tricks as they say.
@@liarwithaguni couldnt have said it better. Ive noticed that it seems almost no one can think for themselves these day. Most people dont even know why they do the things they do or think the way they think. They never qustion what is popular and why its popular. Everything down to their music taste, way of dressing, and daily activities. They never seem to have their own moral compass either.Thats a testement to how much they dont think for themself.
It’s like the rapper chick Suki told an interviewer: “I don’t do magic or whatever it is you said I do. I do music.” “I don’t think. I know. I don’t need to think, because I know.” “I’m not a magician, I do music.”
This is one of the few educational video channels that I actually like to watch along with listening. I like seeing the videos and pictures go along with the voice, and I like pausing to read the details in the text walls. Thank you!
I remember a quote from a game that resonated with me, also I will be paraphrasing, “In life, you view yourself in the first person, the main character of your story, and everyone around your first-person view is an NPC. But we’re all main characters in our own stories and when we get to know others, we start to gain more dimension.” from Monster Prom.
I remember the first time I talked to a real life NPC. It was talking to an operator for support I needed at the time. The operator used premade cards to essentially talk to me and it was so obvious that he was reading it to me.
I think something interesting is that as a high school student, teachers seem to reward students who kill their social life for school. All the teachers for each subject expects you to make “extra” time for their subject, so in the end, if you do what they want, you end up having no time to socialize and be a teenager and learn valuable life lessons before going into society, unless you sacrifice your sleeping hours, that is.
Yeah well being a teenager and adolescence is a new thing, for most of society you became an adult at puberty. So you don't really need to learn life lessons if you wanna be like the society that built America. For all we know, giving kids time to be teenagers and the idea of learning lessons before becoming an adult, is part of the downfall of society.
@@nicoledoubleyou I actually had this topic with my Ethics and Religious Cultures teacher, the whole adolescence is a new concept to help the older people keep their jobs after they came back from wars. It’s interesting because I think it questions the basis of whether age really determines how mature someone is. Which I think it doesn’t because some people simply never reach psychological maturity, but it’s an interesting topic and could change the way we shape our society. But honestly I think with how society is right now learning life lessons before reaching “adulthood” is important, like social interactions and ideas, learning to admit to small mistakes young instead of struggling to admit big mistakes later and all that. I think the earlier the better.
I'm in the military. Sometimes I feel like an NPC. Sometimes I feel like the main character. Its all contextual. I used to love fighting and the rush was amazing. Then I got a desk job and realized I have more of an impact behind the desk than behind the rifle. Its weird. You could make a movie about my combat deployments but that action movie would end just like that phase in my life. I am in Japan for the first time working with a huge and highly impactful command. I'm an NPC here, making the machine work. This would be a boring movie but it is more important than individual battles. But when I come home, I'll be the main male protagonist for my wife and daughter and that is where I feel the most at home (unsurprisingly). But even our elite leaders are NPCs, playing their role and reading their script.
I remember in High School AP Literature we were assigned Brave New World. I picked up the book, and flipped through the first two chapters - I then devoured the entire book that afternoon and night. I was always an avid bibliophile, but for the first time I read a book that definied the world I lived in perfectly and recognized that fact instantly, and suddenly everything began to make sense. If you havent read it, give it a chance, despite being written a century ago it outlines everything we are dealing with today like no other story has.
People dont know about it, because it was too correct. Instead they focus on 1984 and fill their heads with delusions of a hypertotalitarian government thats simply not feasible. Unlike BNW. We will enslave ourselves. We've already started.
@@hopperstreams4487 You miss the point. It was to highlight how a society focused on enslaving itself would embrace hedonism at early ages, essentially programming the citizenry early on. You can see it nowadays - influence in the media and world around us idolizing sex and drugs, which influences the youth disproportionately.
In "my truth", the man I saw just standing on the corner was a grave threat to me, so I was acting in self-defense. Imagine a world where only your truth matters. Every person is the main character in the movie, and everyone else is just supporting cast.
In a way, you might be able to equate it to one of those Battle Royale a everyone is playing these days. Everyone's the main character and there can only be one winner, or truth, at the end of the day. Someone else's truth throws you out of the game.
Dude, I have been saying this for months and I am not even a Yankee. We are getting played by both sides and even people in the middle. In the modern world, there is no right or left and you have the illusion of right or left. Real traditionalists like myself can see this clear as day. I hope people watch this video and see reality for what it actually is.
Do you think a revival of traditionalism is possible? Lots of right-wing thinkers have begun to tilt in that direction, but most of the leaders are stuck in the modernist mentality of “just make material conditions better”.
I tell this to everyone who tells me democrats are the problem or republicans are the problem. That's all an illusion, there aren't two parties. It's all smoke and mirrors. Theatrics. They don't count votes, it's an illusion of power. Nothing more. If voting was real it wouldn't be legal. I think they probably used to, but then Kennedy was too much of an unexpected thing (televised debating was brand new, government didn't expect him to do so well). They fixed that and stopped counting votes. 2000 election the supreme court just decided the winner and told FL to stop counting. Had FL finished counting Gore (say what you will, my point isn't that he was a better option) would have been president. This stuff is like an onion with infinite layers because reality itself is.
I'm almost 30, a maybe-slightly-more-than-casual gamer, and haven't watched television in maybe 10yrs instead opting for documentaries for the largest part. I love the way you convey your content and so glad I'm subscribed so I can hear more of the logical truth the way it needs to be said: bluntly.
I think you are witnessing what have been variously called 'Men without chests', Mass men', and the 'Last Men'. People so divorced from their own humanity that they have in many ways ceased to be People, and are little more than habituate animals that can talk
Of course the Tolkien pfp pulls out one of Lewis’ greatest insights. To be honest, I’ve read Abolition of Man and still don’t quite grasp it. Any recommendations for how to understand his full picture in the first essay? I understood every paragraph I think, but the big picture I mean.
You did it. You pretty much summarised every loose thought I've been having about the current state of our society and culture and turned all of it it into a coherent and self explaining video. Thank you, I was loosing my mind trying to get to that point. You're a Master, congratulations.
He did a really good job, and I would say about 90% of what he said resonates with me, and I can see the evidence of what he’s saying, and they are very astute and salient points. However, the one exception is “there are biological differences in the races.” I’m just confused as to what he means. If he wants to assert that different races are predisposed mentally then no I don’t agree. But if he is simply talking about physical attributes like different races’ physical appearance and build then yes, that is proven and makes sense. If that’s the case I 100% agree with everything he said.
My Big 5's openness trait measures around 80% (Roughly translates to 80% on the MBTI N). I was the weirdo kid growing up, who always thinks about weird new things and abstract thoughts, and no one around me could understand someone like me until I climbed the higher education and workforce. Grad school in pure mathematics felt like the place where I met most people who are like me, open minded and not afraid of new ideas, and philosophical discussion about anything is the norm
I really resonated with the watching corn part. Yesterday i whipped up two thick juicy cobs. I got some Kerrygolds butter. I put them in foil and waited for the wood to glow red. I tested the temp at 360, placed the foil wrapped corn with the butter inside them and started watching corn. I was mesmerized. I sprinkled the finished corn with paprika, sea salt, finely dice cilantro and onions. It was slightly charred in some spots but juicy like you wouldn't believe. Just fucking perfect! 👌
What is interesting is there WAS a push towards autonomy back at the beginning of the web, and somewhat before. You could run a business fixing, setting up computers, writing custom programs and such as a contractor. You could sell things on ebay and such. BUT those eggs have been cooked. Shipping costs and commission percentages have gone so high that you lose half the value of your goods or more. Feedback has gone 100% unbalanced in favor of buyers such that sellers live in terror of the buyers who can return anything without contacting you and you pay shipping both ways. Companies have made fixing equipment difficult by restricting parts and pairing items so you couldn't use them if you wanted to. The era of individuals having companies for hardware or software has also waned. At the same time the government has become very interested in side hustles and made sales tax on mail order and also micromanaging taxation such that it can cost many hours(a significant percentage of hours) just complying.
now the central banks around the world are pushing research hard into Central Bank Digital Currencies. Aka Bank/gov controlled bitcoin. That way there will be no possibility for cash transactions, at least not legal ones that they can then use the cash for something else afterward. Add on the idea of digital ID and Digital Vaccine Passports. You have the metaphorical barcode tattoo they scan every time you take a step or send a cent. Farm Cattle are treated more humanely.
A huge but ignored part of the problem is inflation. Most modern problems are made worse by, or come directly from, the fact that all countries have been debasing their currencies since at least WWII. Lack of earnings and savings means that the millennials are telling the truth about not being able to get ahead. The bipartisan Covid stimulus bill has quite literally doubled down on US debt; it remains to be seen whether we go the way of Zimbabwe or the Weimar Republic. “It can’t happen here” has never once stopped it from happening.
This video is worth many lectures. It is a competent and deep philosophical analysis of reality. The topics it raises are much deeper than one might think on the subject. This is really a very high intellectual level. Keep up the good work. There is really not much of that on youtube.
I really appreciate your insight about all topics it’s as if I’m listening to myself narrate my thoughts on topics I grew up in the ghetto of Baltimore but we were a rust belt too and I’m sure our upbringings were similar
I'm an NPC, been one for decades since graduating high school. Although it's getting far worse than it used to be. I'm a special ed survivor who never went to college and am starting to get too old for the physical work I do, at the same time compensated less. I also feel social norms change as one gets older, anything creative or fun is increasingly frowned upon. Conformity becomes necessary, and constantly adhering to it is frustrating.
I almost had a physical altercation over the whole " this is my truth and im going to stand in it" idea recently. From my perspective to deny objective reality in favor of a personal fantasy is either madness or evil, or both.
My extremely well educated siblings now believe there is no objective truth. It's madness. You cannot reason with a anyone who doesn't believe in objective truth. It's chaos all around
Some people think it's a young soul versus old soul thing. Like if you're an older soul you might be more of a composite of prior experiences and you'll have several "yous" running the game simultaneously or overlapping incarnated at the same time. Then next time around you're more of a composite. Some people have more "light" than others and I think the younger folks need to interact with the older to learn how to generate their own "light" (you can't live off borrowed light saying for example) but some people in service to self status learn to vampirize that life energy etc because they're choosing to be evil and so are cut off from the light and need to steal it until they make good choices again. So they need to steal it, not borrow it. Like draining people or "energy vampires." Could all be wrong but it's interesting. TL:DR some people are playing several characters at the same time depending on their soul age and then those lives combine in their next life I guess
When I’m just sitting around bored, or waiting for something to do, I am tormented by the feeling that I am failing to realize my potential; that I should be someone of more renown and wealth. It’s rooted in vanity and I know this because it all goes away when I’m out in my backyard chopping up wood and getting dirty. Being in direct contact with the earth is such a vital part of the human condition and yet so many of us spend 99% of our time in contact only with concrete and carpet.
I used to feel the same way too, I would become bored, do nothing for about 10 minutes and I could not handle it. I felt like I had to be productive and do something that leaned towards making money, or something of that sort. It was weird, I'm reading "The Burnout Society" by Byung-Chul Han and it describes this well. I recommend it.
@@LEKSANDER01 I feel burnt out on modernity itself. The neoliberal system we are caged within is fraudulent and it’s currency arbitrary and backed by nothing but a rapidly waning “confidence.” I don’t have high hopes that a book is gonna be able to ease a burnout stemming more from a morale crisis than over exertion, but maybe I’m wrong. I often am haha. I’ll add it to the list.
I really liked the part about Ireland being a country full of main characters leading to centuries of oppression well said. It is, in my humble opinion, why the US was able to tame the west as fast as it did. Took serious guts.
@@DivestedChristian well if you watched the video there was a segment in the beginning explaining that Ireland was a land inhabited by people who did not accept centralized authority well at face value, hence the clan structure based around families, each with their own goals and methods of achieving said goals. Now, with that being said, my point was that with the Irish being so decentralized and anti authoritarian it makes them pretty much the opposite of the notion of NPC. Which caused them to be conquered by the Brits bc they couldn't agree long enough to unite but on the flip side this helped lead to the colonization of the western half of the United States because the western half of the United States until very recently in history was absolutely lawless and rugged. It took a special kind of human being with a very individualistic and independent mindset to, for example, take your entire family across the rocky mountains only to settle in a far away land that was pretty much uninhabited such as Oregon. The risks and skills needed to achieve said goal would have required a special kind of individual, one that Ireland produced millions of. They are one of many groups with those traits that make the United States of America special.
“If you were a peasant, you’re life was boring” Bullsh*t. You spent your whole day using your skills to solve problems alongside your friends and family, constantly adjusting your daily routine to the weather, the change of seasons, and the needs of the people around you. You had scores of random holidays throughout the year to throw a minor party, where you would dance, sing, play folk music, drink, and feast. Tack on weddings and births and deaths, and your life is constantly flowing between meaningful work and meaningful celebration and meaningful mournings. Of course things were rough at times: petty wars, random famines, and inscrutable diseases were common. Children died often, and justice was usually hard to come by. Most people in developed nations today couldn’t handle a life full of such erratic ups and downs; we prefer the comfort of the predictable and routine, even as it drives many of us into depression, substance abuse, and suicide. Life today is many things; you might even call it better than before. Life back then could be very rough, but it most certainly wasn’t boring.
@@wurzel9671 because, as a peasant, if you don’t work and others don’t then everyone starves. If you stop doing your job then your company might see a %0.09 decrease in productivity. Tangible results for you and your family, over intangible results for a soulless corporation.
It was a hard life, but not backbreaking. You had a position in the world and worked to fill it. It was not all bad. But very different from what we know.
The reason farming is so much more meaningful than wage labour is severalfold. 1) Your work was more diverse. Sure, you had a set of stupid chores you'd have to do every day, feed all the animals, let the chickens out, muck out the pigs etc. But you would also have a lot of other things to do that would give a lot more variety to your life. Fix the fence, re-thatch the roof, brand all your animals so that everyone knows whose animals they are and no ones gonna steal them, make a new fence, Hmmm, I think the pigs should be over here instead of here..., today I'll head to market to get a new yoke for my oxen etc. 2) Independence/self employedness. Ok fair enough not all farmers were smallholders, but as Rudyard has pointed out, even doing sharecropping for a feudal lord, you're still producing your own food. The work that your doing is for your own sake so you can see how meaningful it is. Wage labour has you doing work, the fruits of which you will never see, and you're compensated for that with... numbers... granted you can buy shit with those numbers, and more than you could with farmer's food, but it still feels less natural. 3) Relationships and family. If you're an animal farmer, your animals are like your family, who doesn't like being around animals? As humans we like it so much that as soon as we got away from the stage of working with barn cats on the regular, we started making cat videos. Being around farm animals is like having a whole family, and you can see this if you watch farming youtube channels (which I do) like Gold shaw farm. Even leaving aside the more interpersonal nature of the pre-modern world, farming gives you a big old family to protect, to feed and watch over, what could possibly be more meaningful than that?
Brother, you won my heart with dropping the Siouxsie and the Banshees picture. Didn't expect that from this side of my youtube watching. Much love, from someone with higher trait openness and a love for 80's goth rock.
As I am new to the channel, I really wasn't expecting such a insightful analysis about our modern times from just a RUclips video that claims to be on Real Life NPCs. Amazing content.
There was a line from Starfield that bothered me. One NPCs was telling me all the things I could do in the city. They said, "if you're hungry, there is a restaurant across the street. If you need a place to chill and have a drink, there is a bar next door. If you need some spirituality, there is a holy place you can visit." That's all "spirituality" is for the writers of Starfield, just another "need" to be satiated, like hunger or thirst. And that tells you why our society is in dire straits. God isn't some momentary drug, He is supposed to be loved with all your heart, might, mind and strength. Only then will we find true happiness and joy.
It's a reciprocal relationship like everything else. You get out of it, what you put it. Consume trash food or cultivate a culture where "I can sleep when I'm dead" you'll reap the consequences. Same goes for the soul.
Well in context of starfield to the guy it is just someplace to worship. It is written to be impersonal and the guy is not religious. Did you go into the church and see what the characters there had to say?
I honestly think people in the 50's (the decade most would say was the most NPC one) were more open to new, novel concepts than most people today, but we're told they were narrow-minded simply because they weren't woke.
The 50s weren't bad because "Woke," the 50s were just a crummy era to exist in. Also because they didn't allow women to do shit back then, and that's what matters. Female leaders and managers.
@@sub.sa.3058 there are videos that show otherwise to your comment too. i remember the past myself, felt less bigotry and such back than but people were not as woke
@@royale7620 Individual thought, action and presentation was actively stifled to a much more extreme degree than today. People relied on scripts more and were happy doing so.
@@fuzzborneThat's a history revisionist stereotype written by NPCs and their programmers. They hate the fifties because it was an era of morality that is anathema to the "revolution" in the sixties which was just perversion and delayed misery pretending to be openness and free thought. They were nothing but the proverbial "so open-minded that their brains fell out" generation. Their only defense is the pathetic false dichotomy of "so you want RACISM to come back, huh??" Meanwhile, they are racially segregating college dorms and promote an ideology that teaches that actually REAL systemic racism is needed to fight the phantom echoes of past systemic racism. 🙄
A thing i noticed is, it's almost impossible now, to talk about "deep" complex issues with others. They just try to avoid it, or drive away the Issue with Jokes.
It's impossible to "colonize the video game space" as a history buff. Sid Meier beat you to that game decades ago, and nobody's done it more thoroughly than Paradox.
it's a lot more accurate to say gamers have colonized history considering this "historian" believes the key to a dominant society is to be a "manly warrior race"
@@appa609 He's not providing solutions, he's just explaining the problem. He literally outright says that society NEEDS npcs to survive, (just that right now, we have a bit too many.) with the medival irish example. Did you even watch the video? I doubt it.
How odd. My dad called them "empty suits". And the new soft generations as "hothouse raised children" as if they were unable to exist in the natural world. There is a commonality there that might just be pointing to a truth.
Idk, i was reading the bible a while back, and it described some people 'without the breath of life". I feel like 'Real Life NPCs' are as old as time. People with Sentience, Sapience but no Cognitive Function. Also, the whole 'Necromancy' theme from the bible... almost seems like an allusion towards controlling these 'Hordes of Unliving'
The only true happiness I have ever found and given that I have mental disorders as well (depression and BPD) is through constantly learning about new ideas and expanding what I understand or think about the world
NPCs have always been around, we use to call them sheeple in pre internet cultural control days, theres always been at least a few words for it. The idea that they are somehow soulless or literally "not there"(like a literal npc in a simulation) is new though.
The idea of soullessness is actually very ancient, Kabbalah had the idea that some people are born without souls especially when there is uncontrolled population growth
Rudyard, we've come a long way from "What if the Roman Empire never fell?" I've enjoyed following you every step of the way. Cheers on another compelling, thought-provoking video.
You're doing a good job - I don't know if these videos are making you a lot of money or not, but the merit of your ideas are spot on. Lots of people appreciate it.
As an Irishman I’m proud to say my country was once a PVP zone before the server got shut down by English moderators
As someone who is 1/20th or so Irish, it’s no surprise to me that you’re proud of that fact but for the love of all that is peaceful and holy DO NOT resurrect that near me please!
@@JayVal90 we’re everywhere so no promises
Because all the fucking ulster-scots players kept whinging that the Irish players were farming NPCs. I mean come on the ulster-scots were doing the same!!! the admins are corrupt
I’m fuckin deadd😂😂😂
And then you guys revolted against the moderators and made it back into a PVP zone
"I want to be different, just like everyone else." This is how my father describes modern American folk and culture.
You can't expect more from midwits.
NPCs are so materialistic that they are oblivious to the fact diverse consciousness and thought is what make humans unique.
Being an NPC is just coping with certain death and nihilism
@@tuckerbugeaterSo stop being a Nihilist then.
But they all end up being the same lol. All the kids got the same shitty Logan Paul haircut and tight nut jeans.
You showed a slide of a hospital where the administrators make millions, while a doctor starting out would make in the low to mid 100,000’s with a tremendous student loan burden. My hospital was taken over by a larger hospital and they decided to kick all the physicians in my department out. You were then invited to apply for your own job, but I never got the courtesy of any response to my re-application. So I looked for another job and when I found it I was told I had to stay until the end of the year so as not to “burn any bridges”. I had a family to feed and did not want to risk being unemployed in the new year. I had worked in that place for 15 years and this was how they treated doctors. Like disposable commodities.
Open your own practice.
I'm a software engineer with about 20 years experience, and over time I've learned that working for big companies pays well but it tends to be boring and tedious and will treat you as disposable, and they are even worse to deal with as a customer, as they produce bureaucratic buggy crap.
The most enjoyable software projects I've ever worked on was building stuff from relative scratch as a small team. The best products seem to be from such as well, and I can tell you with very few exceptions that the AAA high profile games are usually trash, and the real gyms are made by small highly dedicated teams.
Given how my big hospital doctor lied to my face and was rude and pushy during covid, and many other factors, I'd rather have a doctor or two in a small business practice that I can know, and who I know will have more autonomy in their lives.
As far as I can tell, small businesses and proprietors seem to be what I want to deal with now in almost all aspects of life. Big organizations are to Kafkaesque and untrustworthy. And try getting somebody from one on the phone, navigating mazes of menu's to prevent you from talking to an actual person.
Damn fuck the system.
I'd hate to live in America, Australia is nicer
Australia, country that bans crossbow, locked everyone during covid, including people who just wanted to leave, and country that bans games and shows because it's "improper. It's a prison of a nation i think.
@@WalkdplankfrankIt's rather difficult to live in 'Murica. Being able to think, say and do whatever I feel like doing at any particular moment is a horrible thing to be burdened with. I wish I lived in Upside-down Kangaroo Land like you, that way the government can do most of my thinking for me. 😂
@@TheJeremyKentBGross So many people hate private practitioners for literally no reason. If you're not part of a giant medicare deal or hospital then they'll be an infinite amount of obstacles in your way... and then you get to deal with lousy patients.
I get that one bad doctor can really screw up a person's future perspectives on doctors, but it's pretty bad now. "Privatized healthcare" is considered the devil to a lot of people.
"January 6th never happened"!? I haven't heard of this.
I have heard and believe that January 6th was not a coup attempt, just a protest and not historically significant. The only person killed was a protester shot by police. If the Right ever decides to make a coup attempt in the United States, you can bet your bottom dollar that they will be armed. These bozos who invaded the capitol building were unarmed. Trans and Palestinian protesters storm capitols all the time and we barely even hear about it on the news. So this has been blown way, way out of proportion.
Well stated. It was mostly peaceful. If it had been a coup attempt, everyone there would have been armed and it would have been a massacre.
As for the "storming the capital". I watched a live stream as it happened. Where the capitol police opened a door for the "invaders" and asked them to come in. As the group was walking past the entrance. One of the voices in the video said "I think this is a bad idea". I ask. Whose idea it was, Pelosi? In any case. The narrative is bullshit.
'The Gulf War Never Happened.'
Google the essay.
It’s pretty amazing how many people believe that a handful of unarmed protesters managed to infiltrate one of the most heavily secured areas/ buildings in the world after 911. It absolutely blew my Even my mother bought into it!
And about that election itself...
My favorite NPCs are from California
They keep complaining how paroling the Mojave desert makes them wish for a Nuclear Winter.
Fallout so good, yes yes yes
@@normanclatcher🤣🍻
When I got this assignment I thought there’d be more gambling.
@@TaskForce-th5sl our guys put the monorail back to work
Long live to the NCR
I think life as a peasant was a lot less boring than you think. Summers spent outdoors working with friends, winters spent indoors making handicrafts with family. Socialization is one of the greatest time-passers because it is extremely complex, being the literal reason that we have such large brains.
I've read that peasants had more "time off" than time working in the fields over the year.
@@gregsmith7949probably depends on where they were. That's probably the case for European peasants, but I'd imagine the work would've been close to year-round in the rice-growing areas of the world
@@greeneggsandhamsamiam6154 True. I speak of European peasants, not Asian, which I gather from the rice reference.
I agree and wish I had more socialization in my life, but to be fair, there was a lot more murder and sexual assault/incest then, too.
@@MattSloanVMMP I really wonder about that. Seems like the sort of thing a postmodernist would say to justify their destruction of their host society.
there was this RUclipsr (I forget the name and I'm still searching for it), who did a video on primitive society and anti-Natalism. He apparently found he wasn't happy with society in general. and marked it up to modern civilization being a problem for him. After talking with therapists he wasn't given much help in feeling any better, the best help he got came from a few who said he should try to live in a primitive society. He traveled across the country to join some kind of primitive commune thing in a national park. He hated it because the same problems were still present there, no connections, no identity, no autonomy. all this pooled with the fact he slept in the dirt and was exposed to the cold nights with minimal shelter. After returning home he'd made a bit of a realization about himself. He hated living primitive but enjoyed traveling from town to town working part-time for a little bit and then moving on.
He had more joy in the autonomy he had living in a car and working a job he could walk away from if he didn't like Than he ever did living primitive. He also talked about other stuff in the video, I've been searching for it for months now and can't find it.
Edit: someone found it. It was: Talkin'bouts - civilized to death.
The commune part doesn't fit, but was the video titled:
'the answer is NOT a hut in the Woods' - by Exurb1a?
I like him too 🙂
@@bobSeigar no that's not it. But it's crazy how well it fits to the description I gave.
@@kevinhixson1586 I feel as if it may be a universal feeling. I discovered that video, because I did the 'isolationist' thing and had an epiphany as well.
I hope you find the one you seek, it sounds interesting.
@@bobSeigar thank you, good luck in any of your future searches.
One thing I noticed when I went to Papua New Guinea, one of the most undeveloped places left, is that the people who lived in isolated villages and straw huts surviving off the land were happy and cheerful to one another. Then you go to the big cities and notice it’s the opposite. That made me think for a while now that the pursuit of capital as a pathway for life satisfaction is an illusion set up by the system we live in. Sure you want to live comfortably, but past that material possessions mean nothing.
Yes that’s because missionaries help them with agriculture so they could grow enough sweet potatoes to live before that they were eating each other as late as the 1950s and 60s. Just an interesting historical fact.
Ah yes, without the white man they'd be screwed, and we have to go help them! Of course that is the white mans burde.n@@seaneustace9838
They don’t have feminism to destroy family
@@seaneustace9838 that was an astonishing fact I was exposed to just yesterday from a recent Scott Mys podcast with a Suzanne Alexander. She was visiting tribes in PNG and the islands studying diet. The sweet potato consumers were mentioned but absolutely no context was given. In light of your comment this is now a slightly puzzling oversight (ignorance?) given she restored her health via ruminant meat and the overall theme of the channel is carnivore.
And in Lagos, Nigeria, joyful kids in the slums on the water swim in the same water that the public outhouse empties into. A cheerful resident happily laughs that the children don't get sick and admit it might be their closeness to Jesus and prayer for health. Happiness is certainly not related to consumption and living an NPC existence. It seems to be related to the first and second commandments.
When my family lived in an apartment, we had the cops called on us for our kids playing outside.
When we moved into a house in the burbs, the same exact thing happened again.
Now we live in the middle of nowhere with only two nearby neighbors and it's perfect
OMFG bro
Yeah thats a weird american problem,
The phenomenon of stranger danger, was really bad for society.
In modt European places, or the rest of the world, nobody would care.
I feel so bad for kids growing up in most of this country. I grew up in Northern Michigan and we all played outside all day with no problems. Also, the population was 99% white and crime was almost non existent.
@@RedWolfensteinyeah, “also.” Totally unrelated lol
I grew up in a very rural pace in Switzerland, now I live in a city and I prefer the city.
I remember my pastor in the 90s was telling us about modernity. He knew it would be soul crushing, people would on,y live to chase pleasure, and sin would be celebrated. He thought it would take 50-100 years, but we’ve been speedrunning it.
Cellphone/internet/socialmedia was an afterburner for destruction. The speed is shocking what I’ve seen the last 20 years.
Have you asked him what he thinks of today?
Ask him about when ww3 starts
@@dr.vonslifeinvesting6485 Yep. If you take the 200-year cycle for civilisations I wasn't expecting the West to fail until the 2060's (if you consider the end of the US Civil War as the beginning and the Moon Landing as its apex). The internet and instant communication fast forwarded the decline.
What a load of bullcrap. People were always living to chase pleasure, he wasn't giving you any news. Some guys society thinks of as messiahs j knew that over 2k years ago.
That pastor just gave you the usual "it's the end of the world speech" that American pastors love to give. It was already happening. Its just now you see it more coz of live TV.
Let's be real, we are all just NPCs in the Story of the REAL player one, Chris Chan
You spelled Kanye West incorrectly , but yes . When Kanye isn't looking at me or thinking about me , I go to a dark place and cease existing .
Long live sonichu
Please Lord no
He warned you of the dimensional merge, and the world laughed at him
It's the darkest timeline, then.
"Every layer of modern society treats you like a cog
you go to a bureaucratic school, you work in a giant company
you date through an app, you die in a retirement home."
The movie Brazil was prophecy
The Boomers went through all of this in the 60s.They just couldn't articulate it as well.
The sad thing is, eventually they chose the materialism in the end. The very thing they lamented against.
And now we know the error of their ways, there’s still time, let’s make the better decision.
The 60s hippie to 80s yuppie pipeline.
They still had a lot more going for them back then. It was easier to get a job, get educated, buy a house, meet new people, the list goes on. You have to put in about 10 times the effort to accomplish any of those things these days. They lived in a society held up by a bunch of WWII veterans. We live in a society held up by boomers.
It's still hip to be square.
Strong men make easy times, easy times make weak men.
I'm 40, one of the biggest disappointments in my life was realising that openness was a trait and not very common. Openness combined with intelligence is a curse. It means not only are you unhappy, but you know why, and that you have almost no agency to truly fix it.
edit: I guess I should qualify that I didn't mean I'm constantly miserable day to day and don't have friends. Just that you're aware of some of the fundamental issues with the world, but feel like it's too far gone to put right. I live quite well and can be happy, but it's in spite of reality rather than being ignorant to it.
Feels bad man
It's hell.
it takes a long time, and meeting lots of people, before you stumble on a few people that share those traits. Usually they are just as eager to find deeper friends as you are.
Are you me? I often catch myself analyzing if an activity or possession will bring me any happiness. The normies seem to enjoy the thing, why can't I?
-I didn't enjoy the thing
You could look into Stoic philosophy if you feel a lack of agency. Bringing your locus of control back to yourself can help.
Memeology is not a serious field of study. Yet.
We're already in clown world, why not take jokes seriously?
I hope that one of my shitposts makes it into a history textbook.
Memeology is a thing, but it's called Sociology in college.
@@joshuarichardson6529This is true and funny at the same time
memeology is advanced decentralized advertising
"I am not a gamer"
"I've only sunk thousands of hours into strategy games."
"I haven't played games with NPCs"
"I've played tons of Skyrim"
Dude, you ARE A GAMER.
I have prepared thousands of meals in my lifetime, yet im not a cook
Wait for their move first.
Some of the stuff this dude says, he is very dismissive, as if there is a black-hole of meaning that he refuses to acknowledge or think about...
For instance
"I haven't seen any evidence that the election was stolen"
Kind of stupid to say that you haven't seen any evidence of election tampering. You may not have seen any "proof", sure. But there is evidence all around you, you have to be an NPC to discount it out of hand. How many "historic firsts" were involved in the 2020 election? From the number of people to vote, to the fact that the person they were voting for was/is visibly and obviously brain-damaged. To the covid crisis causing people to use mail-in ballots en masse, employing a literal ballot stuffing strategy, which is seen on camera many times over. To the fact that google literally stole the election, on its own, in a 100% objectively undeniable way via algorithmic manipulations. Just because that wasn't technically "illegal", or associated directly with a political party, you "don't see it as evidence"? So it is irrelevant?
Why do you think it is that the entire process is so opaque? The idea that we have free and fair elections is an NPC delusion. Why would the bureaucracy leave itself open to evisceration at any moment? When we know, that if it had the power to prevent that from happening, it would, at all costs?
The definition for gamer is often pushed to be looser than other hobbies due to the disdain gamers have from the media. They want to make actual gamers irrelevant.
Non gamers who dont understand gaming culture assume gamers want the definition to be more strict and narrow out of snobbery or elitism, but its really due to just a shared culture and underatanding of many things.
Nobody thinks someone is an athlete because they played 100s of games of football, basketball, and tennis durinf highschool. Nobody calls everyone who watched a couple hundred movies in their life a film enthusiest. Nobody calls someone who prefers cooking themself dinner instead of eating out a chef.
Think about that when you think gamers may not neccesarily think someone who played a handful of games a gamer. They arent being intolerant, the people who accuse them of being so ARE.
A gamer is someone who knows what hitboxes, s, rotations, quickscoping, input lag, etc is. They know what it means to have no romance in their youth because they preferred games over dates. They think about how to change their strategy or their builds WHILE they are at work or school. They can probably tell what game someone is talking about in public even if they never mentioned a character name, game name, or whatever, even if they never even played the game themselves.
To clarify Im not saying you arent a gamer if you didnt play at least x games for y hours. But if you dont think you are a gamer, then you arent.
As for the people who say they are a gamer that arent. Generally its the people who care more about social media clout that dunks on gamers and thinks gamers suck. They arent gamers either because an actual gamer knows how ostracizes they are, how ACTUALLY inclusive they are, and wouldnt want to be yet another of the millions that dogpile on them.
@@sharky9075 I freestyle every now and then, but I ain't a rapper
The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the face of increasing comforts
The deepest happiness comes from overcoming difficulty- when everything is easy, nothing is satisfying
A certain german jew that wrote a certain book about class struggles made post industrial society noticeably more depressing than it should have.
If you believe in God, this just makes sense.
I get scolded for saying people of the past knew better and were smarter. Now that modernity sandwich does not taste so good huh.
My suggestion is that do dopamine fasting, once the brain neurons wiring return to the lowest expectation then give some comfort would give you more happiness otherwise it's going numb.
Man, I'm 35, you kids grew up in a totally different world than I grew up in. Shout out grad class of '06.
Shout out from the class of 2020.
Right there with you, graduated HS the same year. I can't imagine being a kid today, and I say that as I'm trying to start a family
The 90s felt like there was a future, the 00s you saw your parents afraid for the future, the 10s you began to fear for the future, and the 20s you’re the close as humanity has been to it since the 60s.
Class of 08 here
Shit dude. I’m 19 and you graduated 2 years after I was born. Just remembered how young I am lmao
Bro you are one of the most unique perspectives on this app like no one else would think to post a video like this. thanks for being one of the best on here.
Aww,,,
Makes me want to record my mind rambling and see if I can splice it into a coherent and upload it.
It's true though, @@WhatifAltHist
@@theangrydweller1002 Just because you lack the cognitive ability to understand that he is correct doesn't mean he is wrong.
@@WhatifAltHistYou’re younger than me???
Being in a 1 month coma totally flipped my life, for either better or worse 🤷♂️
Although, to bring this bizarre comment back to what redbrick6885 said. I really appreciate your videos 😌
Most of my coworkers are NPCs. As intelligent as many of them are, I question a divine spark in their minds and souls. It’s a lonely 12 hours a day.
Yep
The tree of souls is empty
I understand the feeling.
Being a wagie in 2023 is dire
I feel your pain.
Whatif: “I’m not into fantasy… but I spent my life crushing Tolkien”
Whatif: “I’m not a gamer… but I spent my life crushing StarCraft”
Wiah - I am not an incel but my fav ppl are Tate and Petersen
@@caniblmolstr452 That dose not make you a incel.
Petersen has done more for young men by telling them to make their beds than anyone I know 😆
Right? Lmao
Top comment.
I have lived in the same town almost my entire life. The friends I made moved on. The forests I grew up in are being cut down for subdivisions full of standardized homes with no character. My boss is an abstraction because all of my assignments happen through a online job board. I'm going back into an industrial scale secondary education institution that has campuses scattered around the burgeoning megalopolis to complete the educational requirements for a professional license in the desperate hope I can obtain enough money to make something of my life. All of those classes are online post-COVID so I need to go out of my way to form professional relationships. The best plan I have right now for long term happiness and the hope of a wife and children is to make enough money to leave the only I place I've truly known for the chance of better prospect, like my Scot-Irish and French ancestors did in the 1700s.
The only reason my world is merely brutal and not completely bleak is because I have a family, a religion, and because I'm part of a local social club. Those three things keep life from being a desperate struggle.
Good luck man
@@chilledoutrobot6358 Thanks. Good luck to you as well.
Does your plan include SEAmaxxing for that wife & child? Might want to consider it
@@sirliner8035what?
I can see that where I live now and I've only been here five years. Especially the deforestation.
Must be really cool to watch the downfall of modern civilization being a historian
Also I think it's time to change the channel name to Whatifactualhist
Or Whatisactualhist
This is the best timeline.
Future proves past.
The real althist is the friends we made along the way.
I love the channel, but I disagree with his extreme pessimism. I don't see any signs of the downfall of our civilization. Our problems are small compared to the problems of previous civilizations.
@@ElekuI disagree. Mainly because of the birthrate which is a ticking time bomb and a problem that has yet to been solved by any industrial nation. Immigration will be a band-aid solution to this but this isn’t a sustainable model.
Sometimes I think people expect too much from life. I spend most days grateful that the whole thing doesn’t fall apart and explode into a million pieces. The fact that there’s civilization at all blows my mind.
I’m too negative for that, but I’m sure gratefulness 24 seven is the best way to live. I’m not denying that it’s a true and real perspective. Just one that I find hard.
Definitely a good way to look at it but it’s hard to accept because we’re brought up expecting the that we’ll be great and have it all so we’re underwhelmed when we do actually grow up.
The fact we have phones freaks me out
Or free thought lol
and sometimes i think people expect too little from life.
As someone growing up in a small village next to a beautiful forest, with no expectations but to be myself, joining society has been hugely traumatizing for me.
I had this beautiful and mystical view of the world, and felt like I could just trust anyone… It all fell apart piece by piece like a big lie over my teenage years. I still hold on to that vision, but I just can’t deny the corrupt bigotry that’s happening everywhere around me. Now I’m literally obsessed with economy, politics and especially history to make sense of this society, but once I have the resources I need you’ll see me moving off grid permaculture style.
I also used to live in a small town and when I moved to a city it's been rough yesterday I was chased down my own street by a old man and big women telling me to go back to where I come from can't even take a walk without horrible stuff happening
I wish you luck. The US government doesn't tolerate those who try to go off-grid.
@@pandoranbias1622true
Just turn the news off bro make your life better
@@justinmadonna3733 "Just ignore all the problems you see bro"
FWIW I'm 51 and most of my adult life I've been trying to tell younger people "It's not just going to just be OK, the authorities lied to you" and for most of my life I've been labeled a misanthrope, or whatever insulting descriptor sits opposite of each authority figure's alignment. I've gotten through to about 7 people, and these have become some of my most trusted friends.
Anyone who's switched on, no matter their age, is aware that it's not gonna be okay.
Seems like a lot of people just want to go around warning people instead of actually working to fix the situation.
Now they got you vulnerable and open up for the next metal injection
If you just warn them, then they will learn the world is cruel not when they grow up, but from now on. You shouldn't just scare people, you need to come up with tomething better. Sadly, I haven't yet.
@@MonsieurWorldwide The problem is most people in the world are not.
I'm 41, and I see this. Not sure why so many others can't. It's weird. The world has definitely gone mad.
Western civ has been carefully steered towards madness. None of this is random.
I’m the same age as you
I'm 27 and I definitely see it. The memories of the world before phones are glorious, I was maybe 7 years old but I remember, people just had more time for one another and they actually cared. Now everyone is stuck on their screens. I got rid of my phone and so my friends got rid of me, it was inconvenient to them. That's how stupid spoiled people are, they're absorbed in a bubble and don't realize what they're doing because everyone is doing the same thing. It's horde behavior. I chose not to be part of that and suddenly you can no longer function even though I'm human just like them but also not like them... it's weird. It's like trying to explain to a zombie that they're a zombie and I'm not sick they are sick... But all zombies want to do is eat your brains and they don't care, they're in that brain eating mindset.
@@timspikerYour friends are smart and you overestimated your position in their life. You are a hassle they can do without so they did as it’s not like they don’t have other friends that don’t make communication hard. They aren’t zombies you are just a contrarian that expects people to cater to your odd demands.
@@badart3204 see, you are like everyone else. It's not difficult to communicate trough email, times, locations, appointments. You are spoiled and willing to sacrifice life over it. That is the difference. Inconveniences are everywhere in life and mine's the phone and theirs is a person, this is the core difference between moral decisions and materialism.
I only have 2 major criticisms of this video. Otherwise, it's a solid take. I'm a 48 year old right leaning independent, and i stopped being scared of covid after doing the math of the deaths from CDC numbers. I wouldn't take the vaccine no matter who was in office. It's untested and not worth the risk by using the numbers to assess the risk of dying from covid. My neighbors job forced him to take it, and he had 2 strokes shortly after. Most conservatives i know wouldn't take the vaccine if Trump was president upon its release.
Secondly, the majority of conservatives against the Ukraine war know Ukraine is an authoritarian country like Russia, and we don't want to fund either side due to their corruption. We have our own financial issues and security concerns that are not being addressed, but we are printing money, which causes inflation, to fund defending a corrupt country with financial ties to our presidents family, while not securing our own border. It's not partisanship. It's that we are tired of funding never-ending wars while our citizens receive no help and the tax funded bill for these wars.
Otherwise, it's a solid video. You're very insightful for being in your early 20's.
Well stated on both topics.
We know that Ukraine had killed 14,000 people (says the UN) in the Donbass regions between 2014 and 2021, and the same logic that the US used to bomb Serbia in 1999 was used by Putin to launch the SMO in Feb 2022. Not our problem.
And the flaws of the jab clinical trial are so egregious that it turns the stomach of a medical professional like me. Glad to hear you avoided it.
Russian bot detected@@Torgo1969
No we don't want to fund Ukraine because then Ukraine will get trapped in the same neoliberalism we are. They're going to be a client state no matter what, better for them to be under a sane country than whatever we are.
Whatifalthist has become far more based than I ever imagined he'd ever become
My opinion, it's because he's a logical, decent human. And in this world currently, to be logical and decent forces you to be based because everything else is.. Subpar to be polite.
/pol/ wins again
Whatifalthist, Leather Apron Club and Metatron are the based triumvirate pushing back against the narratives set by Marxist "historians" like Atun-Shei.
@@ToastyChudpol is always right. No exceptions. Always. I didn’t choose to be obsessed with truth but our world forces everyone to the right of stalin into the based path.
@@M33f3r the sun rises from the glow of the east, a sign of freedom.
I usually just don't care enough to get into a more meaningful conversation with most people so I probably end up just doing the surface level npc conversation when forced to speak with people
I too suffer from crippling apathy for the most part -- but that also tends to get me into prodding and playing with people by steering convos into some seriously weird places and studying their reactions . People are fascinating when pressed but absolutely mind numbingly boring on average .
@@SabbaticusRexSounds like y'all got a case of NPC SYNDROME!😮
I can't listen to people say Commie things without calling them on it.
I'm similar. Especially at work, I basically operate on auto pilot... And my social auto pilot is pretty bad. Everyone at work just thinks I'm a shy person or something. In reality, I would consider myself a bit of an extrovert.
But what kind of conversations do you expect to have at a convenience store or a Cafe? It goes without saying that you aren't going to find deep emotional interactions there.
love how it used to be an alternate history channel, and now its more about denouncing hypocrisy and stupidity
not complaining though, kinda seem like the natural outcome of the world we live in
Exactly. The world only feels like it is getting more foolish and the logical, decent human can't abide by that so they push back.
Perhaps because when plotting alternate history you have to read actual history...
And then you have to make it logical wich is what the powers do NoT want.
this channel used to be somewhat itelligent, now it's become an incel whining about girls and gays people, Rudyard really has become pathetic
Isn't that what happened to life itself though?
As someone who managed a company with 300 odd staff… i can say around 3/4 are npc’s. And the ones that are not often tend to keep their head down so that the npc hoard doesn’t turn on them.
Those numbers have vastly changed and continues to do so which is a great thing.
@@RlsIII-uz1kl in which way?
@@LEONSKENNEDY91 many have awakened to the fact that the fake news/legacy media/MSM is nothing more than a tool of the permanent political class that exists within yesteryears now irrelevant modern "mass society". We're in the new postmodern "network society". They've lost the ability to control the flow of information and in turn lost the ability to manipulate and lie to me masses.
But maybe around people they know they aren’t npcs and act normal but just act quiet or whatever in certain situations
If you kill them and still get arrested and go to jail, then they are not a real an NPC.
99% of schools teaches children to be NPCs, usually people who were ostrasized or seen as deviant for various reasons can unplug and see learn (unschool yourself) to see the world for what it is.
Mate at least schools were originally made to teach people how to be productive and useful. If no one did normal jobs even 50 years ago we’d be beyond fucked.
@@Star.Chasernot to be rude by any means,but in a more detailed look into the roots of the education system, school in the traditional way we know it as was created for there to be more lower class workers prior to the industrial revolution to keep the economy going,in simplified terms. if we go back further in time,the original system is from ancient rome,where the point was to create individuals who were physically strong and capable so they could partake in the army,but also develop an eloquent speech and ability to debate so they could be participating members of their democratic society. of course,neither versions are perfect,but the current one inherently places one's worth on whether their abilities are profitable in a capitalistic world,which is inherently wrong because humans all have different sets of capabilities,some of which are not "profitable",especially creative fields, and philosophically every individual has inherent worth to them.
tl,dr; school does not exist to create 'useful' citizens,just profitable ones.
@@leoal9294 If we made schools into unprofitable ones, we'd likely see a scenario similar to A Clockwork Orange.
@@caringheart34 so? it was still just fact. the point of my comment was saying that school doesn't create 'useful' citizens,it creates profitable ones. but I'm assuming you forgot to take a look at how i made no implication that schools have to be 'unprofitable' and mostly missed the point of my reply. my comment was made in an entirely neutral tone,stating only historical facts that have proven true so far in order to correct the former statement between profit and usefulness.
I prefer the way I used the term since 2006. Long before it meant what it does now. I didn't always use it as an insult. It was just a way to refer to a person in the background who you have minimal to no interaction with, isn't well known by you or society as a whole, or does anything particularly memorable in that moment. It was also relative. All but the most famous (or infamous) of us were NPCs to someone else. Like being part of the audience at a movie theater. When it was used as an insult, it really had nothing to do with being incompetent. Just relatively ordinary. For example, Navy Seals compared to the common, random Military Police seen on a base.
I’m 50 and it really messed me up when I found out a few years ago that some people don’t have an inner dialogue. A lot of things clicked into place for me from the past when I found that out.
Those people can still process and do stuff. They're programmers and stuff. What should blow you away is that people with like 90 and below IQs can't imagine scenarios. If you said "What would you have done if you hit a deer on your way to work today?" And they can't process it. They'll just respond with stuff like "I didn't hit a deer today".
@@TheMysteryDriver that’s wild. Ty
Yup some people don't have a inner monologue, a minds eye, or color sight. Just imagine being the guy without all three.
@@EURIPODES color sight? You mean they have color blindness?
That sounds like the theory of the bicameral mind and one of its main points was that religion and god(s) were providing the equivalent of the "inner dialogue" and as science took over more parts of society more people started developing more of their own individual inner dialogue, allowing more individuals to imagine what they would do if they hit a deer on the way to work, rather than imagining that god would be speaking to them and telling them what to do.
Ironically one of the messages of the Matrix trilogy is that humans and machines are symbiotic but the machines also know that some humans cannot handle living in an artificial world so to deal with the problem they just factor this into their mechanical plan by giving the humans both an outlit, a faith, and a messiah figure for the humans that cant handle the artifical world only to purge them when they hit a critical mass.
This video exactly explains what I’ve tried to tell other people. The thing is, I don’t need money or wealth, I just want to own a place and have a humble life. But everyone my age is obsessed with material crap. I spend $150-$200 a month on “want” goods, most of which is fishing gear and concert tickets.
Nice. Bowling is the key for me.
Modern society is sick. It's like junk food for the soul. We are fat, lonely, miserable and cynical.
I long for the time this sickness end this corrupt and crooked society for once and all
Yes and historically others like you have always worshiped the end of days nothing new
pithy accurate comment
This just sounds like America in general
We're lonely cuz we're just scolling on social media, no longer going out or interact.
We're fat cuz we don't exercise and eat absolute friggin garbage.
We're miserable and cynical because of the first two.
You can just stop scrolling, go out and get in shape..gives you two less reasons to be miserable and cynical?
The worst thing my generation told your generation was that you are perfect just the way you are. Why strive for anything if you are already perfect?
I've noticed that a lot. That's why I lift, to show to others that improving oneself is not impossible.
@@king-zahi2438 that's great! Keep it up.
Missed the point didn’t you
@@charlescaine6022 thanks bro
@@jaredbryant8297 I'm not perfect so I could have. What point do you think I missed?
The reason "NPC" is such a compelling description for so many people, is they respond in such incredibly predictable ways. Bring up any subject in conversation, and you can predict word for word what they will say - it will be whatever the corporate/mainstream/regime media said about that subject most recently.
It becomes striking when you realize, "Orange man bad" or "diversity is our strength" is really just the same verbal tick as "I took an arrow to the knee" and "Do you get to the cloud district often?"
Women are the most easily predictable with the things they say. The relationship podcasts make it real easy for the hosts cuz they get hit with the same shit over and over again.
@@sonnyb7612 to quote Orwell's 1984:
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy."
The current thing must be supported at all costs
Exactly. An NPC's media digest can be essentially likened to programming updates. And that's basically the extent of the applicability of the meme - the superficial resemblance of an ideologically captured individual to an NPC. Whatifalthist largely misses the point by trying to go too deep into it.
@@sonnyb7612I feel like relationship podcast guests are not representative of the average woman, they're usually bimbos.
Thats what frustrates me most as a Christian conservative. Most "Conservatives" are just anti-leftists. They dont create any of there own culture and dont seem to think rationally beyond the current group consensus. Im voting for Trump, but every now and again he has a policy hiccup. I rightfully criticize it and immediately get the " are you a traitor" stare.
Modern fashion at first confused me, but when i learned that people actually think ‘OFF WHITE’ ‘SHOES’ looked good it became clear people are too conditioned by advertisements to not become one, as the saying goes: “You become what you put your attention to”. these people became advertisements.
Yep, I'll never wear anything with a loud logo. At least not if I'm paying for it.
But we know people wear that stuff as a status symbol rather than fashion. Completely ignorant of the fact that it is peak NPC attire.
“You become what you put your attention to” kinda sounds like the saying “you become what you think about” from Earl nightingale’s “The Strangest Secret” and I think it’s just different ways of saying the same thing, interesting stuff. By the way, look up the strangest secret by earl nightingale, it can help you be better
@@Fgwaywouldn’t they be discounted to discourage it?
If that’s the case then can we go back to the days of Marky mark & Kate Moss, Calvin Klein ads! Lol
@@Fgway I know what you’re saying, but now I’m just confused, so let me get this straight, logo goods used to be discounted to encourage their adoption because they used to not be popular, and now we’re dealing with the ramifications of them being popular?
Moral of this: Stay out of urban hellholes😂 But seriously, avoid these types and hang out with more down-to-earth people and also imbibe good culture and traditions.
Basically hang out with people who work for a living . .
Urban areas have the most massage parlors.
Go to the city before the city comes to you
Man, I grew up outside an urban hellhole, dreamed of an urban hellhole until I was in my late teens, moved to an urban hellhole at the first opportunity, and you couldn’t pay me to move back. Fuck, I wouldn’t even move to a large town unless it was going to quintuple the size of my house and have a sub-10 minute cheap commute back into the city.
Idk where your head is on this, and more power to you, go get it, but small town folk are on average the most mind numbing, un-creative people I’ve ever met, I’ve legitimately had more interesting interactions with pigeons in urban parks than with some of my closest neighbours in my home town. /Those/ people are NPCs, jesus christ.
Be wary of people who attempt to flee those urban hellholes as they often bring with them the mentality that led to the manifestations of those urban hellholes in the first place.
Goethe did not invent physiognomy, it dates back to at least the ancient Greeks. A guy named porphyry writes that Pythagoras practiced it on prospective students to decide if they were worthy
Also didn't that thing had a success rate of like over 70% ? If you ask me that is a pretty high success rate for something that would be considered "discriminating","baseless" in our modern society
Admiral Thrawn invented it a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
He’s always been my favorite “villain” for his use of art to study his enemies. Books were great. Even enjoyed the new ones a lot until the most recent one…seemed like it was more about that girl Chiss than him.
wow so spot on
I came the channel a long time ago for the ideas,
the verbal eloquence and the comprehensive relevant background knowledge.
But it has to be said, the videos are by far the best monologue narratives on the internet:
important art, long forgotten political posters, evocative archive photographs,
crucial maps, telling charts and informative _text wall_ footnotes.
Truly great and memorable in all dimensions.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the whole NPC thing came around because there are some ppl out there who don't have an internal monologue. They don't hear a voice inside their head. Their mind is literally blank and they simply just exist. That's where it began anyway.
I remember a quote that a greek philosopher said ( i think it was plato) that said a slave is something like a body with no agency. They arent animals but they arent people either
Correct, that is the source of the meme. There are also people who can not 'see' in their imagination either, if they try to picture something or think back to a memory they just don't get anything. They may remember what happened or be able to understand what the thing they're trying to picture should be like, but not see it in their mind
But that was the start of the 'npc' meme, which then started getting applied to people who only got their opinions from the news. And then it expanded a bit more
Aphantasia is an unfortunate coincidence, but doesn't preclude NPC characterization.
"A man chooses, a slave obeys."
-Andrew Ryan (Bioshock)
If you live your life in fear of what random people on the internet say about you, then you're doomed to be enslaved to them.
@@XenusSerathiiIcelon I'm actually one of the people who has no ability to 'see' in my imagination and was surprised to learn that others have this ability. However this doesn't preclude someone from being an independent thinker. Just because we can't mentally visualize doesn't mean that we can't have abstract thoughts. In fact I find that I think more critically about the world than most people around me. I guess this is similar to how blind people end up sharpening their other senses so they can still engage with the world.
As a person who has lived his entire life in a rural area
People will often forget about any dumb things you did when you were younger because they don't care
Somehow, that scares me even further. Like total indifference, if your actions dont mean anything to anyone, does that mean you were not even there? Its like that saying: "if people rememebered you even existed 2 yrs after you died, consider your life a victory" but thats still pretty horrible and the lowest common denominator...😢
It's so weird to me hearing that most other people grew up being told to follow their dreams and that they could become whatever they wanted to be. I was told incessantly that the important thing was that whatever I did, I should work my hardest and do the best that I could. I don't know how many times growing up that if I ended up a ditch digger, I should be the hardest working ditch digger. I was a hard-working software engineer for 30 years and I retired early. I look back on my life and am satisfied, and I owe a lot of it to that upbringing.
You had great parents, I’m 20 and I have great parents too, I’ve always been told to try my best and put in my best effort, especially with school
@@tropics8407 what was
@tbobtbob330 Boom 👊 that was nicely done 🤗
As always powerful stuff. Whatifalthis is easily one of my favorite channels left on RUclips
Lol u Dunning-kruger showcase, you don't even know 0.01% of channels on yt yet openly delude yourself into thinking you know how much 'good ones' there are
@@holyXnpc
All I can say is its a little disheartening watching someone make my yearly income in one day 💀💀
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
But at what cost -- don't forget they may be grifting lots of money but at the cost of their own integrity , honor , morality , etc . Their souls are tattered sh1t-stained rags and there is no putting the toothpaste back into that tube .
You’re in 29 Palms, aren’t you?
There's people who make 100k per minute, but that doesn't make me unhappy with the 50k or so I make per year.
Sure it could be more, but I'm not really lacking anything, I have my own house, a wife, my own social life.
I wouldn't want to give that up and work 100+ hours per week for a decade to make a shot at earning millions per week.
I distinctly remember the day I stopped feeling like the main character and like an NPC instead. That was before the craze and actually helped me psychologically working in support roles. I’m a way it helped me find my niche and be comfortable with it. Then s year or two later the “Oblivion NPC” videos started and now…ice cream so gooood
Don't worry people that are like the "main characters" are the ones pushing the destruction of the world. NPCs are just people that exist and live their life. They don't need to be special in order to gain worthless attention from others
😂 I'm sorry I understand this 🙏 eventually you will leave the game all together. It's a wild drive. Get it hehe😅
Always felt like a main character, but a very low level one. I actually envy NPCs. Unfortunately, I only want to be one in a game I design. And that isn't going to happen without hired muscle who doesn'task questions, a legal team to put Disney's to shame and an obscene amount of grant money.
Dude, you are insanely wise for a 22-year-old. I'm in my 60s and most of my peers are nowhere near your level.
This guy is 22?!
Yes, this guy is 22.
UwU
He's not wise at all, not even for the fool he is.
He is an AI robot.
No matter the race. I could NEVER respect, or be friends with someone who hates or is ashamed of their race. Your race is apart of who you are as a person, and is 1 of the things i appreciate about you. Being ashamed of that in a way, diminishes some of the unique qualities (respect, self respect, and honor) i'd look for in a friend.
I was thinking today, "Man, I sure wish a new whatifalthist were to show up today" and here we are! Thanks, man!
Maybe the main character is here...
I love when NPCs see me and immediately act like I should know everything about them, like I should want to.
In my world you are an NPC, people who unironically use this word, are most likely just the most delusionaö arrogant people, who you can find.
@@mam0lechinookclan607What makes you say this?
Sonder is when you understand everyone has a life as complex as yours. Perhaps you'll experience it one day
@@scholaroftheworldalternatehistBut they don't. You can only believe that if you haven't met people. Some folks are *incredibly* simple. It feels nice to say "we're all the same" with our complexity, but that's just more modernist claptrap like in the video.
@@scholaroftheworldalternatehistMaybe, but their reponses to the complexities of their lives are often different. I'm actually jelaous of NPCs in that aspect, since they seem to be better adapted to the weird world we live in.
“I literally can’t understand how the population can be this stupid.
Only an era as safe and wealthy as ours can think that we control reality.”
It's very simple: most people don't like to think. It's part of why society at large hates talking about politics; it challenges them to think about the world. These people like to go through life riding the wave and getting soothed by material comforts and following the first thing that pops into their head which is usually purposefully put their by society or companies. To actually think about things is uncomfortable and takes effort. Most people are, in fact, NPCs.
But doesn’t really we had a fake pandemic that shut everyone down took kids out of school and destroyed businesses. Can such people that were affected by such things really think they’re in control? His point is factual regarding the boomers in the area. They grew up in, but in light of everything that has happened over the last five years I think we have passed out of that world, and as for the boomers old dogs, new tricks as they say.
@@liarwithaguni see
@@liarwithaguni couldnt have said it better. Ive noticed that it seems almost no one can think for themselves these day. Most people dont even know why they do the things they do or think the way they think. They never qustion what is popular and why its popular. Everything down to their music taste, way of dressing, and daily activities. They never seem to have their own moral compass either.Thats a testement to how much they dont think for themself.
It’s like the rapper chick Suki told an interviewer:
“I don’t do magic or whatever it is you said I do. I do music.”
“I don’t think. I know. I don’t need to think, because I know.”
“I’m not a magician, I do music.”
This is one of the few educational video channels that I actually like to watch along with listening. I like seeing the videos and pictures go along with the voice, and I like pausing to read the details in the text walls. Thank you!
I remember a quote from a game that resonated with me, also I will be paraphrasing, “In life, you view yourself in the first person, the main character of your story, and everyone around your first-person view is an NPC. But we’re all main characters in our own stories and when we get to know others, we start to gain more dimension.” from Monster Prom.
My dad always called people I'd now call NPCs, "clueless"
I’m 45, I used to call these kinds of people The Borg from Star Trek before NPC was a thing.
Oh boi can't wait to share with my totally not NPC family and get uninvited to thanksgiving again.
Did you get all your shots? If you aren't fully boosted, no turkey for you.
So relatable
@@mistermonsieur2924 you can't have your meat if you don't eat your Pfizer.
Imagine abandoning your closest social circle over the words of some skinny-fat autist on RUclips.
You want to talk about Whatifalthist at Thanksgiving? Sounds like you're the NPC mate
I remember the first time I talked to a real life NPC. It was talking to an operator for support I needed at the time. The operator used premade cards to essentially talk to me and it was so obvious that he was reading it to me.
They make them do that.
Call center work forces you become an NPC.
@@libertatemadvocatus1797oof
I work support and these things are literally called "scripts" and you can be punished if you go too much off a script.
I think something interesting is that as a high school student, teachers seem to reward students who kill their social life for school. All the teachers for each subject expects you to make “extra” time for their subject, so in the end, if you do what they want, you end up having no time to socialize and be a teenager and learn valuable life lessons before going into society, unless you sacrifice your sleeping hours, that is.
School is a machine to train kids for work 8am-3pm 3-45
Literly I guess we can tank ford for that
Yeah well being a teenager and adolescence is a new thing, for most of society you became an adult at puberty. So you don't really need to learn life lessons if you wanna be like the society that built America. For all we know, giving kids time to be teenagers and the idea of learning lessons before becoming an adult, is part of the downfall of society.
It's Not WHAT You Know, But WHO You Know That Matters....
@@nicoledoubleyou I actually had this topic with my Ethics and Religious Cultures teacher, the whole adolescence is a new concept to help the older people keep their jobs after they came back from wars. It’s interesting because I think it questions the basis of whether age really determines how mature someone is. Which I think it doesn’t because some people simply never reach psychological maturity, but it’s an interesting topic and could change the way we shape our society. But honestly I think with how society is right now learning life lessons before reaching “adulthood” is important, like social interactions and ideas, learning to admit to small mistakes young instead of struggling to admit big mistakes later and all that. I think the earlier the better.
We are at the point were silly meme drawings are now turning into political satires
Memes were always political&cultural satire to some extend....
Always have been bro
Always have be- oh, someone already said that
I personally noticed during Trump's administration. I think that was because I had just graduated high school though
I'm in the military. Sometimes I feel like an NPC. Sometimes I feel like the main character. Its all contextual. I used to love fighting and the rush was amazing. Then I got a desk job and realized I have more of an impact behind the desk than behind the rifle. Its weird. You could make a movie about my combat deployments but that action movie would end just like that phase in my life. I am in Japan for the first time working with a huge and highly impactful command. I'm an NPC here, making the machine work. This would be a boring movie but it is more important than individual battles. But when I come home, I'll be the main male protagonist for my wife and daughter and that is where I feel the most at home (unsurprisingly). But even our elite leaders are NPCs, playing their role and reading their script.
You're in the military, just know who you're working for, they don't care about you like your brothers might.
@@superunknown2728 Who is he working for?
@@deriznohappehquite lmao
Oy vey, don't dig up into their script writers, that's antisemitic !
@@deriznohappehquiteIsrael
I remember in High School AP Literature we were assigned Brave New World. I picked up the book, and flipped through the first two chapters - I then devoured the entire book that afternoon and night. I was always an avid bibliophile, but for the first time I read a book that definied the world I lived in perfectly and recognized that fact instantly, and suddenly everything began to make sense. If you havent read it, give it a chance, despite being written a century ago it outlines everything we are dealing with today like no other story has.
Wake me up when the state starts mandating sexual partners.
People dont know about it, because it was too correct. Instead they focus on 1984 and fill their heads with delusions of a hypertotalitarian government thats simply not feasible. Unlike BNW. We will enslave ourselves. We've already started.
I hated that book, seven year olds diddling each other isn't really my thing.
@@hopperstreams4487 You miss the point. It was to highlight how a society focused on enslaving itself would embrace hedonism at early ages, essentially programming the citizenry early on. You can see it nowadays - influence in the media and world around us idolizing sex and drugs, which influences the youth disproportionately.
In "my truth", the man I saw just standing on the corner was a grave threat to me, so I was acting in self-defense. Imagine a world where only your truth matters. Every person is the main character in the movie, and everyone else is just supporting cast.
In a way, you might be able to equate it to one of those Battle Royale a everyone is playing these days. Everyone's the main character and there can only be one winner, or truth, at the end of the day. Someone else's truth throws you out of the game.
I support the theory that Fortnite is a harbinger of the apocalypse, yes.
The horseman of conquest, yes.
Dude, I have been saying this for months and I am not even a Yankee. We are getting played by both sides and even people in the middle. In the modern world, there is no right or left and you have the illusion of right or left. Real traditionalists like myself can see this clear as day. I hope people watch this video and see reality for what it actually is.
Do you think a revival of traditionalism is possible? Lots of right-wing thinkers have begun to tilt in that direction, but most of the leaders are stuck in the modernist mentality of “just make material conditions better”.
Faith, family and localism with as much self-reliance as possible is the way forward.
I tell this to everyone who tells me democrats are the problem or republicans are the problem. That's all an illusion, there aren't two parties. It's all smoke and mirrors. Theatrics. They don't count votes, it's an illusion of power. Nothing more. If voting was real it wouldn't be legal. I think they probably used to, but then Kennedy was too much of an unexpected thing (televised debating was brand new, government didn't expect him to do so well). They fixed that and stopped counting votes. 2000 election the supreme court just decided the winner and told FL to stop counting. Had FL finished counting Gore (say what you will, my point isn't that he was a better option) would have been president.
This stuff is like an onion with infinite layers because reality itself is.
I can't believe you're only 22. You are so well researched and have great insights into modern society's current predicaments. Keep up the great work.
- a 14 year old
@@thelastaesthete lol how? - a 22 year old
this is a beautiful video. this needed to be said on any media platform
I'm almost 30, a maybe-slightly-more-than-casual gamer, and haven't watched television in maybe 10yrs instead opting for documentaries for the largest part. I love the way you convey your content and so glad I'm subscribed so I can hear more of the logical truth the way it needs to be said: bluntly.
I think you are witnessing what have been variously called 'Men without chests', Mass men', and the 'Last Men'. People so divorced from their own humanity that they have in many ways ceased to be People, and are little more than habituate animals that can talk
Of course the Tolkien pfp pulls out one of Lewis’ greatest insights.
To be honest, I’ve read Abolition of Man and still don’t quite grasp it. Any recommendations for how to understand his full picture in the first essay? I understood every paragraph I think, but the big picture I mean.
@@jakinboaz8558Nietche had more on this I would recommend Uberboyo
You did it. You pretty much summarised every loose thought I've been having about the current state of our society and culture and turned all of it it into a coherent and self explaining video. Thank you, I was loosing my mind trying to get to that point. You're a Master, congratulations.
He did a really good job, and I would say about 90% of what he said resonates with me, and I can see the evidence of what he’s saying, and they are very astute and salient points. However, the one exception is “there are biological differences in the races.” I’m just confused as to what he means. If he wants to assert that different races are predisposed mentally then no I don’t agree. But if he is simply talking about physical attributes like different races’ physical appearance and build then yes, that is proven and makes sense. If that’s the case I 100% agree with everything he said.
*losing
My Big 5's openness trait measures around 80% (Roughly translates to 80% on the MBTI N).
I was the weirdo kid growing up, who always thinks about weird new things and abstract thoughts,
and no one around me could understand someone like me until I climbed the higher education and workforce.
Grad school in pure mathematics felt like the place where I met most people who are like me,
open minded and not afraid of new ideas, and philosophical discussion about anything is the norm
I really resonated with the watching corn part.
Yesterday i whipped up two thick juicy cobs. I got some Kerrygolds butter. I put them in foil and waited for the wood to glow red. I tested the temp at 360, placed the foil wrapped corn with the butter inside them and started watching corn.
I was mesmerized. I sprinkled the finished corn with paprika, sea salt, finely dice cilantro and onions. It was slightly charred in some spots but juicy like you wouldn't believe.
Just fucking perfect! 👌
Nice. Exactly like actual porn.
Sounds great, I love sucking on a nice juicy cob till it explodes it’s flavour inside my mouth.
😂
Noice
Eyes positively GLUED to the niblets
What is interesting is there WAS a push towards autonomy back at the beginning of the web, and somewhat before. You could run a business fixing, setting up computers, writing custom programs and such as a contractor. You could sell things on ebay and such. BUT those eggs have been cooked. Shipping costs and commission percentages have gone so high that you lose half the value of your goods or more. Feedback has gone 100% unbalanced in favor of buyers such that sellers live in terror of the buyers who can return anything without contacting you and you pay shipping both ways. Companies have made fixing equipment difficult by restricting parts and pairing items so you couldn't use them if you wanted to. The era of individuals having companies for hardware or software has also waned. At the same time the government has become very interested in side hustles and made sales tax on mail order and also micromanaging taxation such that it can cost many hours(a significant percentage of hours) just complying.
now the central banks around the world are pushing research hard into Central Bank Digital Currencies. Aka Bank/gov controlled bitcoin. That way there will be no possibility for cash transactions, at least not legal ones that they can then use the cash for something else afterward. Add on the idea of digital ID and Digital Vaccine Passports. You have the metaphorical barcode tattoo they scan every time you take a step or send a cent. Farm Cattle are treated more humanely.
A huge but ignored part of the problem is inflation. Most modern problems are made worse by, or come directly from, the fact that all countries have been debasing their currencies since at least WWII. Lack of earnings and savings means that the millennials are telling the truth about not being able to get ahead. The bipartisan Covid stimulus bill has quite literally doubled down on US debt; it remains to be seen whether we go the way of Zimbabwe or the Weimar Republic. “It can’t happen here” has never once stopped it from happening.
This is my dad's story
This video is worth many lectures. It is a competent and deep philosophical analysis of reality. The topics it raises are much deeper than one might think on the subject. This is really a very high intellectual level. Keep up the good work. There is really not much of that on youtube.
I really appreciate your insight about all topics it’s as if I’m listening to myself narrate my thoughts on topics I grew up in the ghetto of Baltimore but we were a rust belt too and I’m sure our upbringings were similar
This whole video speaks to my soul so much that I had to regularly pause and bask in knowing it's not just me who feels this.
I just had to pause to read the text...
I'm an NPC, been one for decades since graduating high school. Although it's getting far worse than it used to be. I'm a special ed survivor who never went to college and am starting to get too old for the physical work I do, at the same time compensated less. I also feel social norms change as one gets older, anything creative or fun is increasingly frowned upon. Conformity becomes necessary, and constantly adhering to it is frustrating.
Trust God not your own hand.
Venice Beach is always an option.
Have you tried not being retarded?
I almost had a physical altercation over the whole " this is my truth and im going to stand in it" idea recently.
From my perspective to deny objective reality in favor of a personal fantasy is either madness or evil, or both.
My extremely well educated siblings now believe there is no objective truth. It's madness. You cannot reason with a anyone who doesn't believe in objective truth. It's chaos all around
Evil is a bit of a stretch, madness perhaps
Everyone lives in fantasy if they don't they would have to admit they don't know anything
@notreal5513 I approach everything with the mindset of
" I'm a dumb hillbilly. What can I learn about this ? "
@@joshfloyd7755 that's a good idea actually
Your videos are an intellectual breath of fresh air
There's an npc theory that says there's not enough souls to go around so thwts why we have so many npcs now
This is a theory in Buddhism and the esoteric tradition
@WhatifAltHist it's correct isn't
Simulation theory is the most probable answer imo, look up the double-slit experiment.
Some people think it's a young soul versus old soul thing. Like if you're an older soul you might be more of a composite of prior experiences and you'll have several "yous" running the game simultaneously or overlapping incarnated at the same time. Then next time around you're more of a composite. Some people have more "light" than others and I think the younger folks need to interact with the older to learn how to generate their own "light" (you can't live off borrowed light saying for example) but some people in service to self status learn to vampirize that life energy etc because they're choosing to be evil and so are cut off from the light and need to steal it until they make good choices again. So they need to steal it, not borrow it. Like draining people or "energy vampires." Could all be wrong but it's interesting. TL:DR some people are playing several characters at the same time depending on their soul age and then those lives combine in their next life I guess
When I’m just sitting around bored, or waiting for something to do, I am tormented by the feeling that I am failing to realize my potential; that I should be someone of more renown and wealth. It’s rooted in vanity and I know this because it all goes away when I’m out in my backyard chopping up wood and getting dirty.
Being in direct contact with the earth is such a vital part of the human condition and yet so many of us spend 99% of our time in contact only with concrete and carpet.
I used to feel the same way too, I would become bored, do nothing for about 10 minutes and I could not handle it. I felt like I had to be productive and do something that leaned towards making money, or something of that sort. It was weird, I'm reading "The Burnout Society" by Byung-Chul Han and it describes this well. I recommend it.
@@LEKSANDER01 I feel burnt out on modernity itself. The neoliberal system we are caged within is fraudulent and it’s currency arbitrary and backed by nothing but a rapidly waning “confidence.” I don’t have high hopes that a book is gonna be able to ease a burnout stemming more from a morale crisis than over exertion, but maybe I’m wrong. I often am haha. I’ll add it to the list.
If I can speak in materialistic terms, that last sentence you wrote is MONEY!! You gave me a lot to chew on, thank you.
I feel similar, except it's also fueled with some anger that I was harassed by certain groups out of the potential via gaslighting/mobbing/stalking.
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I love this Whatifalthist running gag where he mentions how medieval people saw each other have sex.
It is true though
wow. so incredibly intelligent! I cant believe you're only 22! SUBBED! thank you so much
I really liked the part about Ireland being a country full of main characters leading to centuries of oppression well said. It is, in my humble opinion, why the US was able to tame the west as fast as it did. Took serious guts.
U mean the US did not share that attitude? Or?
@@DivestedChristian well if you watched the video there was a segment in the beginning explaining that Ireland was a land inhabited by people who did not accept centralized authority well at face value, hence the clan structure based around families, each with their own goals and methods of achieving said goals. Now, with that being said, my point was that with the Irish being so decentralized and anti authoritarian it makes them pretty much the opposite of the notion of NPC. Which caused them to be conquered by the Brits bc they couldn't agree long enough to unite but on the flip side this helped lead to the colonization of the western half of the United States because the western half of the United States until very recently in history was absolutely lawless and rugged. It took a special kind of human being with a very individualistic and independent mindset to, for example, take your entire family across the rocky mountains only to settle in a far away land that was pretty much uninhabited such as Oregon. The risks and skills needed to achieve said goal would have required a special kind of individual, one that Ireland produced millions of. They are one of many groups with those traits that make the United States of America special.
“If you were a peasant, you’re life was boring”
Bullsh*t. You spent your whole day using your skills to solve problems alongside your friends and family, constantly adjusting your daily routine to the weather, the change of seasons, and the needs of the people around you. You had scores of random holidays throughout the year to throw a minor party, where you would dance, sing, play folk music, drink, and feast. Tack on weddings and births and deaths, and your life is constantly flowing between meaningful work and meaningful celebration and meaningful mournings. Of course things were rough at times: petty wars, random famines, and inscrutable diseases were common. Children died often, and justice was usually hard to come by.
Most people in developed nations today couldn’t handle a life full of such erratic ups and downs; we prefer the comfort of the predictable and routine, even as it drives many of us into depression, substance abuse, and suicide. Life today is many things; you might even call it better than before. Life back then could be very rough, but it most certainly wasn’t boring.
I really don't know what would make someone define breaking your back in the fields as meaningful work. Interested in finding out though.
@@wurzel9671 because, as a peasant, if you don’t work and others don’t then everyone starves. If you stop doing your job then your company might see a %0.09 decrease in productivity. Tangible results for you and your family, over intangible results for a soulless corporation.
It was a hard life, but not backbreaking. You had a position in the world and worked to fill it. It was not all bad. But very different from what we know.
You literally just described life in Brazil
The reason farming is so much more meaningful than wage labour is severalfold.
1) Your work was more diverse. Sure, you had a set of stupid chores you'd have to do every day, feed all the animals, let the chickens out, muck out the pigs etc. But you would also have a lot of other things to do that would give a lot more variety to your life. Fix the fence, re-thatch the roof, brand all your animals so that everyone knows whose animals they are and no ones gonna steal them, make a new fence, Hmmm, I think the pigs should be over here instead of here..., today I'll head to market to get a new yoke for my oxen etc.
2) Independence/self employedness. Ok fair enough not all farmers were smallholders, but as Rudyard has pointed out, even doing sharecropping for a feudal lord, you're still producing your own food. The work that your doing is for your own sake so you can see how meaningful it is. Wage labour has you doing work, the fruits of which you will never see, and you're compensated for that with... numbers... granted you can buy shit with those numbers, and more than you could with farmer's food, but it still feels less natural.
3) Relationships and family. If you're an animal farmer, your animals are like your family, who doesn't like being around animals? As humans we like it so much that as soon as we got away from the stage of working with barn cats on the regular, we started making cat videos. Being around farm animals is like having a whole family, and you can see this if you watch farming youtube channels (which I do) like Gold shaw farm. Even leaving aside the more interpersonal nature of the pre-modern world, farming gives you a big old family to protect, to feed and watch over, what could possibly be more meaningful than that?
Brother, you won my heart with dropping the Siouxsie and the Banshees picture. Didn't expect that from this side of my youtube watching. Much love, from someone with higher trait openness and a love for 80's goth rock.
As I am new to the channel, I really wasn't expecting such a insightful analysis about our modern times from just a RUclips video that claims to be on Real Life NPCs. Amazing content.
There was a line from Starfield that bothered me. One NPCs was telling me all the things I could do in the city. They said, "if you're hungry, there is a restaurant across the street. If you need a place to chill and have a drink, there is a bar next door. If you need some spirituality, there is a holy place you can visit."
That's all "spirituality" is for the writers of Starfield, just another "need" to be satiated, like hunger or thirst.
And that tells you why our society is in dire straits. God isn't some momentary drug, He is supposed to be loved with all your heart, might, mind and strength. Only then will we find true happiness and joy.
It's a reciprocal relationship like everything else. You get out of it, what you put it. Consume trash food or cultivate a culture where "I can sleep when I'm dead" you'll reap the consequences. Same goes for the soul.
Well in context of starfield to the guy it is just someplace to worship. It is written to be impersonal and the guy is not religious. Did you go into the church and see what the characters there had to say?
I honestly think people in the 50's (the decade most would say was the most NPC one) were more open to new, novel concepts than most people today, but we're told they were narrow-minded simply because they weren't woke.
The 50s weren't bad because "Woke," the 50s were just a crummy era to exist in. Also because they didn't allow women to do shit back then, and that's what matters. Female leaders and managers.
@@sub.sa.3058 there are videos that show otherwise to your comment too. i remember the past myself, felt less bigotry and such back than but people were not as woke
Why would the 50s be the most NPC one as opposed to today? the 50s were actually very good.
@@royale7620 Individual thought, action and presentation was actively stifled to a much more extreme degree than today. People relied on scripts more and were happy doing so.
@@fuzzborneThat's a history revisionist stereotype written by NPCs and their programmers. They hate the fifties because it was an era of morality that is anathema to the "revolution" in the sixties which was just perversion and delayed misery pretending to be openness and free thought. They were nothing but the proverbial "so open-minded that their brains fell out" generation.
Their only defense is the pathetic false dichotomy of "so you want RACISM to come back, huh??" Meanwhile, they are racially segregating college dorms and promote an ideology that teaches that actually REAL systemic racism is needed to fight the phantom echoes of past systemic racism. 🙄
A thing i noticed is, it's almost impossible now, to talk about "deep" complex issues with others.
They just try to avoid it, or drive away the Issue with Jokes.
What purpose does it serve them? You're just giving them problems without any solutions.
Because you are an autistic moron and they don’t care about your delusional opinions.
I love Jokes. They're shorthand communication tools.
@@tuckerbugeater Who say there isnt any solutions!
Often you have to talk about problems first to come to the solution!
Maybe can talk to me?
Keep up the great work! Your intellect is a breath of fresh air in this dying world.
It's impossible to "colonize the video game space" as a history buff.
Sid Meier beat you to that game decades ago, and nobody's done it more thoroughly than Paradox.
Roblox: 🤭
Fortnite damn near achieved it with the battle pass introduction 😭
it's a lot more accurate to say gamers have colonized history considering this "historian" believes the key to a dominant society is to be a "manly warrior race"
@@appa609 He's not providing solutions, he's just explaining the problem. He literally outright says that society NEEDS npcs to survive, (just that right now, we have a bit too many.) with the medival irish example. Did you even watch the video? I doubt it.
@@appa609 false, the man literally explain what he thinks
I’m 49 and have called them human suits since my teenage years.
I wonder how many different names for it there were going back through time.
How odd. My dad called them "empty suits". And the new soft generations as "hothouse raised children" as if they were unable to exist in the natural world. There is a commonality there that might just be pointing to a truth.
Idk, i was reading the bible a while back, and it described some people 'without the breath of life".
I feel like 'Real Life NPCs' are as old as time. People with Sentience, Sapience but no Cognitive Function.
Also, the whole 'Necromancy' theme from the bible... almost seems like an allusion towards controlling these 'Hordes of Unliving'
The Bible is so excellent at simply explaining these complex realities.
@@chico9805 Many, many parables are like onions. Each time you pull a layer back, there's more, and you cry. ;)
The Bible was made really easy for NPCs who couldn't read
The only true happiness I have ever found and given that I have mental disorders as well (depression and BPD) is through constantly learning about new ideas and expanding what I understand or think about the world
I really like how you don't just follow one political side and all it's opinions but instead actually have your own opinions on individual subjects
Almost like he's practicing what he preaches or something.
@@QrazyQuarianit’s like he’s being a human being 😮
NPCs have always been around, we use to call them sheeple in pre internet cultural control days, theres always been at least a few words for it.
The idea that they are somehow soulless or literally "not there"(like a literal npc in a simulation) is new though.
The idea of soullessness is actually very ancient, Kabbalah had the idea that some people are born without souls especially when there is uncontrolled population growth
Rudyard, we've come a long way from "What if the Roman Empire never fell?"
I've enjoyed following you every step of the way. Cheers on another compelling, thought-provoking video.
You're doing a good job - I don't know if these videos are making you a lot of money or not, but the merit of your ideas are spot on. Lots of people appreciate it.