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Mangione said he was on holiday in Japan, and I asked him about it. He said that while he loved many aspects of Japanese culture, such as its sense of honor, he believed Japan was full of “NPCs,” or non-player characters—which is internet slang for people who don’t think for themselves. He then told me a story he’d first mentioned in an email: One morning in Japan, he saw a man having a seizure in the street, so he ran to the nearest police station for help. They followed him back to the man, but refused to cross any street if the stoplight was red—even if the road was empty—as the man was seizing on the ground. Mangione lamented what he called “a lack of free will” in Japan, by which he meant a lack of agency. More:
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My Conversations with Luigi Mangione
He told me that once we surrendered our agency, we’d surrender everything else.www.thefp.com
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I know we had the Gurwinder blog posted earlier... I did wonder if it ever got deleted. ??? I actually did appreciate it very much. And even read another Gurwinder blog. I was not aware of the concept of NPCs, so learned more about the internet slang.