It's because a key component of fascism is an idea (unspoken or not) of a warrior class that acts upon others, that they're liberated through violence and have the agency to act upon those labeled as beneath them as they please. That's what fascist aesthetics sells to them, this dream that they can be a powerful warrior with agency by becoming part of the fascist machine, by sacrificing themselves and others to it.
The whole "NPC" thing is just this amorphous underlying ideal slipping into the modern treat-centric framework, telling the angry treat lads that their opponents "aren't even real" while selling them a dream of being the heroic player character that actually exists and can take action, which they can do by becoming part of the fascist machine and sacrificing themselves and others to it.
It's just this whole "strong individual warrior" shit through and through. For America this used to be this idealized image of a settler patriarch stealing land and ruling his family as his own personal property that was trapped in the middle of the woods with him. Now it's an idealized image of some dipshit CoD character or Kratos or the Dragonborn, cool violence men who act with agency in worlds full of things that fundamentally lack agency in every way.
It's because a key component of fascism is an idea (unspoken or not) of a warrior class that acts upon others, that they're liberated through violence and have the agency to act upon those labeled as beneath them as they please. That's what fascist aesthetics sells to them, this dream that they can be a powerful warrior with agency by becoming part of the fascist machine, by sacrificing themselves and others to it.
The whole "NPC" thing is just this amorphous underlying ideal slipping into the modern treat-centric framework, telling the angry treat lads that their opponents "aren't even real" while selling them a dream of being the heroic player character that actually exists and can take action, which they can do by becoming part of the fascist machine and sacrificing themselves and others to it.
It's just this whole "strong individual warrior" shit through and through. For America this used to be this idealized image of a settler patriarch stealing land and ruling his family as his own personal property that was trapped in the middle of the woods with him. Now it's an idealized image of some dipshit CoD character or Kratos or the Dragonborn, cool violence men who act with agency in worlds full of things that fundamentally lack agency in every way.
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