en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_faith_(existentialism) >Sartre cites a café waiter, whose movements and conversation are a little too "waiter-esque". His voice oozes with an eagerness to please; he carries food rigidly and ostentatiously; "his movement is quick and forward, a little too precise, a little too rapid". His exaggerated behaviour illustrates that he is play acting as a waiter, as an object in the world: an automaton whose essence is to be a waiter. But that he is obviously acting belies that he is aware that he is not (merely) a waiter, but is rather consciously deceiving himself.
Soren Kierkegaard: >the immediate man… his self or he himself is a something included along with “the other” in the compass of the temporal and the worldly…. Thus the self coheres immediately with “the other,” wishing, desiring, enjoying, etc., but passively;… he manages to imitate the other men, noting how they manage to live, and so he too lives after a sort. In Christendom he too is a Christian, goes to church every Sunday, hears and understands the parson, yea, they understand one another; he dies; the parson introduces him into eternity for the price of $10—but a self he was not, and a self he did not become…. For the immediate man does not recognize his self, he recognizes himself only by his dress,… he recognizes that he has a self only by externals.
you misunderstand the first quote, for one to be aware they are acting as something one must have an awareness of the self that is acting, thats not npc like, npc’s dont even have a self.
the second quote is good, but to actualise ourself by conceptualising how it is in the Other, that is to to approximate ones self only through how it appears through others eyes, although its close to the condition of an npc, its not quite, for it necessarily involves self reflection and as such a self, or agency to engage in reflection, an npc lacks such, an npc does not want to think, an npc hates thinking because To Be is the very antithesis of their condition as something that is not, decartes “I think therefore i am” is turned on its head to become “I do not think therefore i am not”, that is the condition of an npc, they have no agency because they have no freedom of thought, they have no freedom of thought because although they may experience thoughts (the noun) they do not think (the verb), they just parrot.
Wyatt Perry
The waiter still taking his waiting LARP too seriously, thinking that his essence is the role itself, not recognizing the role is arbitrary. He is just doing it because others are doing it. >he manages to imitate the other men, noting how they manage to live, and so he too lives after a sort
>he is taking his larp too seriously A service job is LITERALLY larping to stroke the customers ego. A waiter is the worst example, because larping is the essence of being a (good) waiter.
Xkcd is just projecting on that comic. There are plenty of people who dont think they are uniquely aware, especially women.
Ryan Hall
mmm you’re right fren, my bad, but does he approximate his essence as the role instrumentally or the role ‘itself’, if the latter could it not be argued he is making his own meaning ?
John White
If we are all experiencing the same reality and whenever we experience dejavu a variable about reality is being altered then we should all experience dejavu at exactly the same time. If i experience dejavu and my friend didn't. My friend has no free will.
Gabriel Smith
Why is being aware being conflated with egotism?
Jeremiah Scott
the actual npcs are the ones that call other npcs lacking true insight into the minds of their fellow humans. literally just programmed bots that calculate from what they see, total lack of empathy. even dogs have empathy. no empathy=npc.
Hudson Gonzalez
Solipsism is like babby's first edgy philosophy, if you think a while about consciousness and existence you will inevitably stumble upon this point of view. But instead of stopping there and developing an unjustified feeling of superiority you should go a few steps further and think about what can be gained for you personally by this perspective. And in my opinion the answer is 'not much at all', it does not really give you an advantage if you view other people as mindless robots, it probably makes you simply more unlikable to them since you maybe convey your thoughts unconsciously to them, making you seem like an arrogant cunt. This may even result in some kind of spiral since your feeling of being different gets amplified by that.
Henry White
>what can be gained for you personally by this perspective A lot of people are pressured into roles by their families and later they internalize those roles as important even if deeply sad or suicidal. If they recognize the LARP that society is they will be able to live freely despise their NPC family being "disappointed" in them.
David Cox
THIS
Easton Smith
SEETHING
Head to bed NPCs you have to get up for work early in the morning
Kevin Jenkins
Yeah, this exactly. Average bizlet has an IQ of 80 though, so this whole NPC meme isn't surprising.
Aiden Smith
>get up for work early in the morning Another ironic, systemic LARP. The only reason people in the past did it is because they were solely reliant on daylight. However the LARP got so ingrained into society that masses of NPCs wake up groggy at ungodly hour even though they march to work in artificially illuminated factory floors.
Jason Russell
Sociopaths and autists have lower or no emparhy and they are human. They can have certain insights about humans that empaths miss, because like every human faculty, empathy is an evolved imperfect tool. For example NPCs worrying about a lost child in the media for weeks.
Joshua Russell
Are you trying to say that this "philosophy" will give you the "freedom" to stay in your room and live at your parents' house and let them pay your bills well into your thirties because the "pressure" to get a job makes you "deeply sad" or even "suicidal?"
Evan Gonzalez
You don't need to express emotion publicly in order to have empathy. Just because you express emotions a lot doesn't necessarily mean you give a fuck about other people.
Kevin Robinson
People will think youre an arrogant cunt if you act a certain way, regardless of what you really think about them. Its the first and instinctual reaction of a person to project their own motivations onto others. For npcs, thats as far as they get in human relations.
There are NEETs that want to be normies. But, unable to fit into either demographic because of their obnoxious personality, they end up being alienated by both.
Mason Adams
But it can only be confirmed by a woman in dark hair. Think about that. Has that ever happened to you? Think hard. If not you may have not escaped the simulation boundaries of a NPC yet. You may be an aware NPC, with the sole purpose to do philosophy on simulations.
Dominic Reed
>there are neets that want to be normies I cant think of a more pathetic existience
