There are two voices in society. One is the voice of the elite, and the other is the voice of the people. Today, there is an ever-greater contrast between the two.


The masses are dominated by emotion, nigh infinitely capable of sustaining contradictions, and ridicule anything that risks disrupting their stasis.

One way to find out if someone is an NPC is to ask them the vertiginous question: Why am I me and not someone else?


80% of the population consists of mindless bodies. 15% of the population consists of (somewhat) mindful bodies. 5% (1 in 20) of the population have a predisposition to the occult and being awakened, 1-2% of which manage to realize.

The proportion of hylics can fluctuate, but the socialization (aka group think) heuristic of the masses calculates as such: Authority + Feelings + Consensus = Truth. According to that heuristic, 70% of communication is who is talking, from looks to body language, and the remaining 30% of communication is what is being posited as content. For these people, appearing competent is more important than being competent.

People primarily model their persona after others they admire or fear, and secondarily after those who logically convince them. In convincing people, either be worthy of their admiration/fear or learn how to hook your ideas, if not the truth itself, into the idealized persona model they subsequently act out.