Part 5 – Where THE END Began – Common Core
“I don’t talk things, sir,” said Faber. “I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I’m alive.”
In the world of role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, player characters controlled by the players match wits with non-player characters, known as NPCs, controlled by the dungeon master who coordinates the adventure. NPCs do not think for themselves. They do not question the philosophic truths and mores of their environment. There is no critical thinking. They cannot suddenly change sides and rebel against the game’s coordinator. They simply echo the echo chamber.
Turning an entire nation into NPC groupthink requires an educational system to conform at all levels. A Common Core, if you will. Bradbury describes the dumbing down of education and the relaxing of social and academic discipline as a root cause in the decline in critical thinking. He predicted the public school system’s hatred of charter schools and homeschooling programs because they skirt core indoctrination and teach non-revisionist history and critical thinking skills. He predicted the rise of Head-Start to begin the social indoctrination of children at younger and younger ages. He predicted a relentless deep state beast that will not stop until everyone conforms and is living in a vast echo chamber of self-affirming ideology. He predicted the NPC revolution, that generation who gives up their individual identity in favor of groupthink’s echo chamber. He predicted that anyone who gives pause to question or debate the echo chamber will be labeled as antisocial and radical. He also predicts it will be lawful and encouraged to hate and bully those same people in an attempt to force them to conform… not to merely check their white privilege, but to check their very soul. The F451 definition of happiness is that moment the individual conforms to groupthink and the echo chamber, no matter how miserable they feel.
This is where we are today. Left-wing politicians, BLM, ANTIFA, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, CBS, the BBC, HuffPost, the New York Times, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, public education institutions, the NBA, MLB, and the NFL have become one vast echo chamber with only a single allowed point of view. Within these organizations any dissenting opinion is dealt with in the harshest terms, including extreme bullying, termination, and black-listing. They approve of and encourage leftist rioting and violence while vilifying and attacking anyone or anything that supports traditional American values. Ray Bradbury predicted it all.