/lit/ - Literature

>>11925216
They don't read

>>11925216
Jane Austen
Stephen King
Neil Gaiman
Rupi Kaur
Dale Cornelage
Jo Nesbo
John Green

>>11925216
never got this meme, speaking as an 'NPC'

why would we be more liberal

Haruki Murakami
Sylvia Plath
Hemingway

>>11925239
Because liberalism is the mainstream, safe position to have on politics.

>>11925248
and the idea is that you can't perform critical thinking without inner voice so you just go with the crowd?

there are barely any of us so it wouldn't really matter either way

Java, 4chan, and right wing blogs

>>11925253
>and the idea is that you can't perform critical thinking without inner voice so you just go with the crowd?
Pretty much.

>>11925253
NPCs are everywhere. Chads and Stacey’s only think in Gentoo coding. I am 100% serious.

This is a smart man’s meme. You must be familiar with computer programming to understand how normies operate, believe it or not

>>11925275
That's just intelligence though. Is there anything that really links intelligence and inner speech? Lack of inner speech is strongly linked to ADHD (this is the case for me) but I don't know what else it's connected to.

(ADHD is linked to reduced verbal IQ but i don't know if it really affects g)

>>11925216
Anyway to answer the question these are the books I am reading right now.

Gross, get this polshit off of here

>>11925275
I hope you don't actually believe this

>>11925295
>>11925289
>not being smart enough for the NPC meme

>>11925216
They don't.

>>11925302
I'm actually really interested in how the meme got so much traction so I would be happy to learn more

>>11925302
What, are you just here to promulgate an incel meme cuz that's not very /lit/...

>>11925302
>having to dumb down p-zombies with a video game analogy
>smart

pick one.

>>11925275
The only thing I would dispute about this meme is that I belive there are different types of NPCs that all act and respond differently because of things like personality

>>11925308
/pol/ is just really stupid

>>11925312
I want to promulgate my CUM inside Kuro.

>>11925308
3 years ago my friend made an observation that people are like NPCs around you and I thought it was a pretty funny concept. Since, we have been saying that now and then on 4chan and surely we weren't the only ones as someone made it into a real meme 2 months ago, I also might have seen people using the term NPC sometime but can't remember.

>>11925340
Nice blogpost, dipshit

>>11925340
it's basically just an easy solution to the Problem of Other Minds no? Several philosophers have explicitly tackled the question of how we know other people have thoughts of their own starting several centuries ago.

Using the term 'NPC' just makes an analogy that's more accessible to young people.

>>11925340
>durr people r liek vidya games hurr

>>11925348
>Using the term 'NPC' just makes an analogy that's more accessible to young people.
Perfectly put.

>>11925354
What analogy

>>11925289
Looks like npcs have better taste in books than the rest of /lit/.

>>11925324
delete this man

>>11925275
This.

>>11925340
this is your brain on video games

>>11925248
So what, you advocate for socialism or fascism instead?

You do know what liberalism is, right?

>>11925216
Made me kek. NPCs read their social media feeds and the multitudinous advertisements therein.

>>11925216
It's so crazy how 99% of people don't even THINK nowadays, unlike us 4channers. We anons, real smart individuals, are so much better than the newfags I mean casuals I mean normies I mean betas I mean bluepilled I mean brainlets I mean cucks I mean NPCs. Yeah NPCs are the stupid dumb inferior outgroup, totally not imaginary self-validating bullshit I use to make myself feel better.

>>11925216
The McDonalds menu?

>>11925275
>This is a smart man’s meme. You must be familiar with computer programming to understand how normies operate, believe it or not

Woah, Java code that calls some unexplained methods, so smart.

>>11925528
based and oldfagalpharobotchadredpilled

>>11925554
looks like golang which makes it even worse

>>11925308
It’s a psyop as part of a greater operation to select out beings of a higher consciousness to serve as leaders in the Marxist, master slave nwo. An extension of similar level operation such as the #greatawakening etc. By self selecting, the beings who believe themselves to be higher than most other people, will be more likely to accept/work for the nwo, and will already hold npcs in relative disregard, easing the path to restructuring.

>>11925528
It's uz oldfags have more experience than the newfags and of you'd think your generation is better than the other

>>11925602
The deleuze/anti-oedipus was another recent memetic operation, and if you can figure out why then you are probably not an NPC.

>>11925248
Moderate conservatism is the true NPC position.

>>11925216
>meme spawned from some idiot misreading a research article

>>11925263

>>11925275
yikes

autobiographies

>>11925248
>liberalism is the mainstream, safe position
Being against cannabilism is also the mainstream safe position

>>11925308
It took from a stupid pop psych journal article that was wildly misinterpreted. However, /lit/'s take on the otherwise stupid inner voice NPC meme is at least useful because having poor inner dialogue and introspective capabilities usually means you don't read much literature or philosophy, which is what this board is about. The alternative definition of "doesn't think for themselves" is a vacuous notion that is just weaponized by /pol/ idiots to insult the amorphous SJW libs, in whose opposition they form their entire identity. Of course the /pol/tards are ironically illiterate woefully unread NPCs also.

>>11925289
>ADHD is linked to reduced verbal iq
That's bullshit

>>11925786
well if you say so anon, it must be

They read self-help

>>11925216
Harry Potter, hunger games

Top Five Life Hack Tips of Successful Sex Lord Billionaires

literally fantasy and fiction

>>11925793
Wouldn't less inner speech lead to less neuroticism?

NPCs talk about Pynchon and DFW and American Psycho over and over and over for literally years. Please look in a mirror lit..

>>11925275
NPC detected

>>11925528
I want to make love to this post

>>11925876
That's not what an NPC would say.
Your post is a simple execution of NPC logic.

>>11925220
>Jane Austen
nigger

>>11925928

>>11925275
>beep boop, excecute (HateAllRobots)
>print Haha look at these dumb NCPs

the work schedules of famous rich people and motivational speeches.

>>11925216
>doggo.snoot.Boop();
>if(p.id==this.id) p.watch
what do they mean?

>>11925979
The first one refers to the NPCs touching someone's nose and saying "boop", especially if cute like a doggo.

The second one is part of an algorithm, where each person in the sexual intercourse is given an action. If the participant is the NPC himself, he should take a passive approach and watch the others fornicate.

t. NPC programmer

>>11925937
>frenzied

James Baldwin
Audre Lorde
Judith Butler
Stephen King
Douglas Adams
Ta-nehisi Coates
JK Rowling
Neil Gaiman

>>11925715
But it captures the complete standardization of left wing discourse well enough.

>>11925275

>>11926011
>But it captures the complete standardization of left wing discourse well enough
no it doesnt, unless in a tautological sense where you define it to be left wing discourse you don't like ergo it perfectly describes it.

America was a mistake, you guys are actually retarded. You cunts mistake left for liberal constantly, and your two party system infests your already pathetic American mind to think the totality of political and social ideology is solely some battle between two binary forces.

>>11925220
One of these is not like the others

>>11925308
the 'gamer' swarm decided to pretend it understood/cared about social issues and politics because they feared that the totalitarian homogeny of their outsoruced fantasies was under threat. The cancer spread and pretended it understood/cared about more than just politics when the trauma of minor discomfort fractured the already narrow wall between fantasy and reality. Now the hive seeps out into every thread of internet (and occasionally even outside) on a quest to find fred perry tunics of defense against cucks or, in our particular case, ancients of tomes of +1 to twitter clapbacks.

>>11926042
Left liberals are part of the greater left no matter how uncomfortable it may make you. And since the intersectional turn, leftist discourse has so little variation that it’s entirely predictable.

>>11926090
but now we're just playing with language. "Greater left", "left liberal", "left", "liberal". You're attempting to sound like a smart guy, but this is all tautology. Your sentences gain their validity because you define your terminology to meet your ends. That's tautology.

And it doesn't make me uncomfortable because this is identical to what libs and leftists do to, just play with language and define words to justify their conclusions. It's dumb, but this is what I expect from pseuds and ideologues.

Please don't politicise this meme. The true NPC is apolitical.

>>11926131
/pol/ already politicised it. They've made it to represent SJWs because literally everything has to be either SJWs or redpill shit to them.

>>11925220
>>11925243
>>11925798
this

>>11926131
don't defend it, its peak narcissism and anyone who uses it should be ground up into burgers, which incidentally would be vegan because it doesn't count as slaughter if they had it coming

>>11926073
it's about the failure of managerial liberalism. convergence of corporate interests, technology, social and traditional media, academia, activism into a vortex of sociocultural homogenisation. political and advertising concerns become increasingly undistinguishable. the more extended and pervasive this liberal ethos becomes the more pushback you get expect. pushback in turn becomes threatening to the system, requiring more, increasingly hamfisted control. every single area of life and human discourse turns into gamergate. a beleaguered, increasingly cartoonish managerial establishment can only make sense of the world in terms of phantom 'bros' and russian bots, whether the topic at hand is 'high culture', pop prolefeed or politics, it's all part of the same identity politics saturated social media spectacle. Donald Trump becomes POTUS. Brexit happens. Bolsonaro is posed to become Brazil's next president. liberal elites are powerless to stop this, they can only double down on their increasingly contradictory ideology which is just not equipped to deal with technological change

>>11926131
Run-of-the-mill political views are inherently more NPC in nature than being apolitical.

>>11926171
>it's all part of the same identity politics saturated social media spectacle
All politics is identity politics because most humans are too retarded to process issues in an intelligent way and so they distill their positions from how their perceive their identity fits in.

Because of this, half of what you wrote is right (establishment ideology is contradictory) but the implication is wrong (that something else might not be). Any dominant human ideology will be contradictory because the underlying humans giving support are too stupid to have noncontradictory ideas. Who gives a shit if the plebs rebel against a contradictory system with one of their own? It's just retarded plebs trying to get some catharsis. It has no value.

>>11926192
>(that something else might not be). Any dominant human ideology will be contradictory because the underlying humans giving support are too stupid to have noncontradictory ideas. Who gives a shit if the plebs rebel against a contradictory system with one of their own? It's just retarded plebs trying to get some catharsis. It has no value.

but is it sustainable? if even moron plebs can deestabilize the system, then probably not. the age of the literate bourgeoisie individual with his own unique snowflake opinions is dead and gone. its a question of scale. liberal democracy relies on similarly outdated presuppositions. the future lies either with communitarian localism or with chinese style authoritarianism

>>11926350
>liberal democracy relies on similarly outdated presuppositions. the future lies either with communitarian localism or with chinese style authoritarianism
maybe. I'm a postmodernist, as in I reject the idea that there are universally discoverable metanarratives that explain human progression into the future. You are basically fortune telling and constructing metanarratives for the future. Maybe you have an interesting point, maybe not. Liberal democracy is terribly flawed, but I havent seen some other system that is not terribly flawed. Who knows, maybe it *will* be communitarian localism (this is closest to my personal politics so i'd like that), but I have no faith that this is some unwritten law of evolution for us.

>>11925289
>Lack of inner speech is strongly linked to ADHD

No way it's completely the opposite for me, I'm always thinking and going on tangents it's what makes me creative.

>>11925494
t. Sargon of Applebee's

>>11926388
Inner speech isn't thinking though, it's when you say things to yourself internally to describe what you're doing (as I understand it, from the outside).

I'm always thinking too, but it's in raw concepts, not audio.

>>11926042
Quit playing dumb like you don't know what people mean when they say "liberal" or "leftist". Yeah if you're autistic enough you can get into the weeds about it but would you say antifa are conservatives? Why not?

>>11926428
mate I'm not an american mutt like you. In my country we have actual communists who hand out pamphlets like retards and stand for elections and get votes. We have actual liberals who form the backbone of the major parties. Youre an american retard who has no idea what these terms mean, and now you're throwing out the term antifa. Antifa in America is some disorganized group of hardcore punks who go to the gym too much and basedboys who are LARPing. This not a meaningful part of politics. You're a fucking moron. Literally go find the gun in your fathers closet and kill yourself you illiterate american scum.

>>11926442
Guys, I think he's serious.

>>11926456
being serious is just another form of LARPing in our postmodern age

>>11925216
they don't
they just browse /lit/ and act like they know it all

>>11926476
He's really upset about something. I can't even tell what at this point.

>>11926482
I'm the same anon who wrote both posts. I'm LARPing to play characters back and forth. This entire thread is like this, just compare the poster count to post count.

>>11926491
Actually, you're lying, because I wrote the second post to LARP.

>>11926491
>j-just pretending

>>11926497
then we're larping together

>>11926042
>all Americans believe what I think they believe