🪓India Breeds Elite NPC Thinkers.
Corrupt. Crippled. Corroded.
Naturally Pursuers of Consensus, that’s the script of NPC Thinkers of India.
Modern India has created a civilization of people who follow scripts, repeat narratives, chase trends, and call this thinking.
We have perfected art of appearing intellectual while operating on pure script.
Elite universities produce graduates who can quote theory but cannot generate thought. Media produces commentators who can analyze trends but cannot see beyond them. Politics produces leaders who can gauge consensus but cannot challenge it.
This right here is NPC thinking at civilizational scale.
The mechanism is simple: Prioritize popularity over principles.
In large room filled to brim and given chance to survive within, true nature of humankind, which is mediocre enough to not realize how they are being consumed, chooses popularity over principles. Every time.
Not because people are evil. Because people are programmed. And programming says: consensus equals safety. Deviation equals danger. So everyone calculates what room believes and adjusts their position accordingly.
In civilization, most popular opinion supported by collective wisdom is often considered right choice rather than operating with logic or principles. And then you glorify it by calling it a democracy...without discourse. Funny.
India breeds elite NPC thinkers naturally. The system is designed for this. Question around and you shall find out:
In India, education rewards memorization, not questioning.
Society rewards conformity, not originality.
Media rewards virality, not truth.
Politics rewards populism, not principle.
Every institution is optimized to produce people who can read script, not write new ones. And the elites are most programmed of all because they have most to lose from deviation.
Our current politics is dirty game of power. Disparity of governance. Civilization collapse. All is resultant of humans not realizing continuum of NPC thinking. And that is what India suffers from. The moment collective wisdom wins without any founded evidence, you know nation has been breeding NPC thinkers for life. We do not ask “is this true?” We ask “is this popular?” We do not examine principles. We count votes. This is democracy? F*ck no. This is automated consensus-building by population of NPCs.
India loves living limited life.
This is choice made unconsciously by millions who follow script without questioning why script exists. The script says: get education, get job, get married, get house, get children, get retirement, die. Any deviation is treated as error. Any questioning is treated as threat. So most Indians do not question. We Indians are NEVER taught to be inquisitive of our choices. We execute script. They call this success. Bravo, NPC behavior perfected into culture.
Most Indians do not really have deep inner lives where they yearn for meaning and purpose. They are incentive-following automatons who will do whatever satisfies their hardwired drives. This sounds harsh. This sounds elitist. But observe. How many people do you know who have examined their beliefs? Who have questioned their desires? Who have built worldview from first principles rather than inheriting it from parents, society, media? Most people are running programs installed by others. This is not consciousness. This is automation.
Just sheep following trends. Bollywood tells them what romance looks like. They follow. Social media tells them what success looks like. They follow. Parents tell them what career is respectable. They follow. Religion tells them what morality is. They follow. Nobody asks why. Nobody builds alternative. Nobody questions script. They just follow. And when everyone is following, it feels like thinking because you see others doing same thing. This is NPC logic: if many people do it, it must be right.
India has no originality. India lost all of its originality. The hunger is lost.
Massive new psychological study shows that various behavioral and psychological aspects of uniqueness have declined significantly in last twenty years. We are becoming more same. More predictable. More scripted. This is not coincidence. This is social media age effect. Everyone consuming same content. Everyone chasing same metrics. Everyone performing same version of success. Result: civilization of copies. NPCs believing they are players because they chose which script to follow from pre-approved menu.
The case of India is specific: NPC thinkers have become supremacist in sense that those who are aware of script being given to them to live life control narrative and all those who are unknown to NPC thinking follow these posers blindly. That is tyranny of my nation. Small elite who understand population is programmable, and they program. Through media. Through education. Through politics. Through culture. They write scripts. NPCs execute scripts. And NPCs think they are free because they chose from menu of pre-approved options.
Dostoevsky saw this pattern in Notes from Underground. The Underground Man rages against “rational egoism,” idea that humans are calculable, predictable, programmable. He argues that humans will act against their interest just to prove they have free will. But what if most humans do not care about free will? What if they prefer script? This is what we see in India. Population that prefers being told what to think over thinking for themselves. Because thinking is hard. Following is easy.
The mechanism of NPC supremacy is elegant.
First layer: create scripts through media, education, culture.
Second layer: reward those who follow scripts with social approval, economic success, family acceptance.
Third layer: punish those who deviate through ostracism, economic hardship, family rejection.
Fourth layer: convince everyone this is freedom.
You can choose any script you want from approved menu. This is choice. This is agency. This is thinking.
And it works because scripts are not obviously wrong. They produce functional life. Get education. Useful. Get job. Necessary. Get married. Biological. Get house. Security. The scripts work at individual level. They just fail at civilizational level. Because civilization needs more than functional individuals. It needs originality. Innovation. Risk-taking. Vision. None of which NPCs can provide because NPCs by definition follow existing scripts rather than write new ones.
Upanishads writing goes something like: “Asato ma sad gamaya. Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya. Mrityor ma amritam gamaya.” From unreal lead me to real.
From darkness lead me to light. From death lead me to immortality. But NPC civilization inverts this. We prefer unreal to real because real is uncomfortable. We prefer darkness to light because light reveals uncomfortable truths. We prefer death to immortality because death is certain and immortality requires risk. So we stay in cave watching shadows, calling them reality, attacking anyone who suggests leaving cave.
My observation of India’s NPC problem and it manifests in specific categories:
In politics: nobody has principles. Everyone calculates which position is popular and adopts it. Politicians are pure NPCs. They run polling scripts and output whatever maximizes approval. No vision. No courage. No conviction. Just automated consensus-seeking. And voters reward this because voters are NPCs too. They vote for whoever mirrors their opinions back to them most convincingly.
In media: nobody investigates. Everyone amplifies. Journalist’s job is not finding truth. It is finding what will trend. What will get clicks. What consensus wants to hear. So media becomes echo chamber where NPCs confirm each other’s scripts. Any deviation is buried. Any uncomfortable truth is ignored. Any challenge to consensus is attacked. This is not journalism. This is NPC propaganda system.
In education: nobody questions. Everyone memorizes. Student’s job is not thinking. It is reproducing approved answers. Teacher’s job is not teaching thinking. It is teaching script. Exam’s purpose is not testing understanding. It is testing script execution. Entire system optimized to produce NPCs who can follow instructions, not humans who can think independently. And we call this education. This is programming.
In business: nobody innovates. Everyone copies. Entrepreneur’s job is not creating new value. It is finding trending business model and executing it in India. “India’s Uber.” “India’s Amazon.” “India’s Netflix.” Everything is copy. Nothing is original. Because original is risky. Copy is safe. NPCs do not take risks. They execute proven scripts. So business landscape is graveyard of copies. All competing to execute same script slightly better than others.
This is why revolution is impossible in NPC civilization. Revolution requires people willing to deviate from consensus. NPCs by definition cannot deviate. They can only follow new consensus once it forms. But new consensus cannot form if nobody deviates first. Catch-22. So system is stable. Self-reinforcing. Self-perpetuating. NPCs reproduce NPCs. Through education. Through parenting. Through culture. Each generation more programmed than last.
The hunger is lost. This is my key observation. Previous generations had hunger. Hunger to build. To create. To escape poverty. To prove something. To leave mark. That hunger forced deviation from script. Forced risk-taking. Forced originality. But current generation has comfort. They have scripts that work. They have consensus that feels like community. They have no hunger. So they have no reason to deviate. And without deviation, no originality. Without originality, no progress. Just repetition.
NPC-ification of Indians is a relic of time, governed by predictability, accelerated by consumption and uniformed by accepting mediocre version of success and equating it with conquering the world.
Large population means strong consensus effects. Collectivist culture means deviation is heavily punished. Hierarchical society means people are pre-trained to follow authority. Economic insecurity means people are risk-averse. All perfect conditions for breeding NPCs.
The tyranny is this: NPCs do not feel oppressed. They feel safe. Consensus feels like belonging. Script feels like guidance. Conformity feels like wisdom. They are perfectly happy being NPCs. This makes their enslavement complete. They defend their programming. They attack anyone who suggests alternative. They police each other to maintain consensus. This is not external tyranny. This is internalized tyranny. Most complete form.
I ask you all: What if existence is eternal recurrence? Would you want to live same life infinitely? NPC answers yes without hesitation. They are comfortable with repetition. Their life is script. Script is meant to be repeated. This is not disturbing to them. This is comforting. Eternal recurrence of same script forever. This is NPC heaven. And NPC hell. Same thing.
The solution is not fixing NPCs. NPCs cannot be fixed because they do not know they are NPCs. They think they are conscious. They think they are thinking. They think their scripted responses are original thoughts. Trying to wake them is futile. They attack you for suggesting they are asleep. The solution is building parallel civilization. Of people who refuse scripts. Who think from first principles. Who tolerate loneliness of originality. Who accept risk of deviation. These people exist. But they are minority. And getting smaller.
India’s future is NPC civilization unless minority of actual thinkers secede. Not physically. Psychologically. Stop seeking consensus. Stop chasing popularity. Stop following scripts.
Build alternative culture that rewards originality over conformity, principle over popularity, truth over trends.
This culture will be small. Will be unpopular. Will be attacked by NPC majority. But it is only hope for anything other than eternal repetition of increasingly optimized scripts until civilization is perfectly programmed and completely dead.
Civilization is NPC. It will remain NPC. It will perfect its NPC-ness until it is indistinguishable from sophisticated automation. But individuals can still escape. Can still think. Can still deviate. Can still be human. Question is: will they? Or is it easier to just follow script?
Dear India, There’s no originality on the internet & the more you try to revolt around it, the lesser time you have to really live in or for it.