More evidence comes out daily proving that the NPC meme is true. They are fed good-think input by the mainstream, and spout it verbatim no matter what. These robots don't have a single unique thought or show any signs of self reflection, creativity, or questioning of their beliefs when reality doesn't align. Free will, self reflection, ability to change, and creativity are necessary requirements to be an intelligent higher life form, yet these NPCs seem to lack all of them. Thinking about how and why this happens leads to some terrifying possibilities.

Anyway, the reason why I'm replying is that your comment reminded me about something that I believe is inherent to leftist dogma and philosophy, that they don't question their beliefs even when the evidence, history, observation, and experimentation runs contrary to them, repeatedly. When I was a kid I was a lefty, and thought exactly like this, but after some bad depression in my teens I came to realize that my views were shaped by what I thought the world should be, not what it was/is.

"I'm not wrong, the universe must be wrong."