> "This entire group is NPCs!"

No you FOOL, the horror of the NPC menace is that they are in every group, infiltrating everyone's ranks. It's like SNATCHERs. It doesn't matter which faction you joined in the MMO of life, NPCs are in all of them. Sometimes they even lead them.

The ONLY defining characteristic of an NPC is that they lack an "inner voice", which you shouldn't take literally. It doesn't mean they don't think in language, it means:

* They can't self-reflect,
* They can't see the world in terms of abstract concepts,
* Therefore, they can't come to independent conclusions, self-actualise or create meaning.

The best way to spot an NPC *is* to try and determine whether they have any viewpoints of their own, or whether they are inherited wholesale from dogma / ideology / "influencers" (such as celebrities, e- or otherwise.)

The NPC cannot lead. The NPC cannot create. The NPC can only follow, and consume.




(That said, please keep calling Twitter™ Liberals "NPCs", it gets them so upset lol)