Neb Is a Real Barrel of Laughs at Parties

The circle of real people that he actively feels comfortable being around has shrunk and shrunk and shrunk until he can count them on his fingers. Unless they are in the trenches of this mental war of abstracted social constructs, neb reasingly has a hard time connecting even with them. The simple abstraction of nature is something that's been alienating the nebs of the world since archimedes was drawing figures in the sand. But it's worse than blake imagined. Driven by a global policy response to the great financial crisis of two thousand eight and by the universal spread of new media technologies, the scope and scale of abstraction in service to political ends has evolved to levels unparalleled in human history