paranoid? no. sceptical. yes. but what you're trying to get at here hans is second or third order thinking. you're not merely thinking about the outcome, but going levels above it. that's the trait that the npcs lack. they think inner monologue is just you saying everything in the first order. it was really shocking to me that there are people that go through life and view second or third order thinking as a kind of chore or pointless exercise. they'd rather just live like an animal. that's the shocking thing. that they prefer just reacting to stimuli. thirdies just spend all day sitting at street corners watching things go by.
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