Alienation is one of the themes that runs through Nectar of Time. Below is everything in the Nectarium that touches on it.
Where it comes up 3
Within this theme 8
Concepts 1
- Integration of immigrants
Colin's view that European countries such as the UK and Sweden did the right thing letting migrants in but failed to integrate them, which led to clashing values. He thinks immigrants who…
Quotes 5
I wouldn't mind feeling so sad if I knew how to meme it better. Honestly, I think that's probably why I get so sad in the first place.
Sometimes when I'm alone at night and there's that brief silence in between videos, something comes over me and I just feel like crying. Sometimes I do.
I've been ordering a bunch of stuff from Amazon and I get super excited when the packages show up, but lately I feel weird like two minutes after opening them. Like, sad, I guess.
At the end of the day there's something inside them that's missing. For some of them they fill that hole with Funko Pops and video games; for some of them they fill that with darker things and go in much darker directions.
We've gone through many upgrades, and we're certainly in a new version of civilization OS. The question for me genuinely is: are these masks a feature or a bug in the system?
Insights 1
- Fiction teaches what no one will tell you
Some lessons, like 'things will come around', can't be told to you, especially when shame keeps adults from admitting loneliness. Fiction lets you learn them by proxy.
Stories 1
- Satisfied Customer excerpt from Troll
Tamir reads an undated page-15 excerpt from Troll by a user called 'Satisfied Customer'. It is a stream of a young person's online mind: irony pulled over the eyes, Mario speedruns, vanilla…