/lit/ - Literature

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The NPC is just a new name for the Aristotelian concept of the natural slave.
Pic related is just the wiki screenshot, but the gist of it is that a natural slave is happier, healthier, more fulfilled, and more fit to work towards the projects and aims of a different and less dependent sort of man - if left to lead his own life, he is confused and miserable. His attempts at thought are confused and unqualified, and his attempts at productive labor are aimless and inefficient.
In a liberal system the very idea that this is possible or commendable, except on an exceptional individual level, is basically blasphemy.
But it's generally a widely-misunderstood concept because the NPC in its own right originated as a 4chan meme and then immediately exploded all over the internet while still half-formed, due to the Trump culture wars (spiraling out of the hands of the outcast think-tanks into the hands of MIGA cattle who are exactly natural slaves)