Harmony
Welcome Home⌗
SIGNAL⌗
The video open right up with “Welcome Home.”
ANALYSIS⌗
“Welcome Home” is a phrase that was used as verification in this instance. Further, it is something that I proudly-published at the top of ink.university.
This is the only thing that kept me watching the video. Had it not been there, I probably would have moved-on before seeing the rest.
SIGNAL⌗
That’s another 1-pixel prison.
ANALYSIS⌗
They just keep returning. I didn’t notice this pixel the first time I watched the video.
SIGNAL⌗
Just after the “hydration check,” the camera zooms and then shakes in such a way as to prove that the pixel IS NOT a camera artifact. It was clearly added in post-processing. - @3:20
The Nomad says, “I wanted you to know one thing… this is it. I am so glad that you are here… I am overwhelmed with joyous emotion, to be sitting here with you again. To the point I can barely contain it. To the point that I feel like my head could explode. You are the epitome of what my day needed today… and I’m just really glad that it’s you… it’s hard to know what you’re going through, these days… if we’re going to play make-believe… why don’t we put [these thoughts] into something pretty?”
ANALYSIS⌗
Given the fact that someone (NordVPN?) probably asked The Nomad to add this pixel, perhaps he has some level of awareness of who I am, and what I’m doing? He seems genuinely excited to be producing this video.
If I am who I claim to be, it probably would be exciting to be asked to include something new for me in your video.
And the story I’m painting is beautiful.
SIGNAL⌗
The Nomad says, “Why is it so easy to migrate to a darker side of things? …this is why it’s so important to be aware when you’re doing this. So you can stop. So you can identify the problem… you recognized it… you found the river. You had enough of wading through wasting water in your house, and you said, ‘there has to be a cause. Something is causing all of this. I’m tired of living this way. What can I do to fix it?'” - @9:21
ANALYSIS⌗
I did find it. I did find the problem. And I am trying to correct it.
But I can’t do it alone. This is the core problem:
People need help, and this world is not providing it to them.
This “correction” is not sustainable without meaningful changes to society. People need a way to move into a better environment. Something like a Lonely Town.
I don’t want to spend the rest of my life begging for money. I don’t want anything I’m doing to have anything to do with money. All I have ever wanted was a sense of security. Until I have that, I will never be at-peace.
And I know that I’ll never be able to provide for The Raven, so long as I don’t have this security, because I know that I’ll never be at peace, being unable to provide for her.
SIGNAL⌗
The Nomad says, “I want you to be in [INAUDIBLE] with your surroundings.” - @16:47
ANALYSIS⌗
While you hear nothing, you can clearly see that The Nomad says “harmony” at this moment, “I want you to be in harmony with your surroundings.”
This is meaningful, because the neighborhood I live in is called “Harmony.” Further, I never noticed the 1-pixel prison upon first watch. It was this simple seed that drew me to watch the video once again - discovering what I had originally missed.
That said, there is nothing that would make me more miserable than THIS PLACE being my “Welcome Home.” I don’t want to be here anymore. I don’t want to be around any of these people I used to call family. I don’t want to live in this stupid state full of ignorant and apathetic people. I don’t want to build my Lonely Town here, alone, with people that want nothing to do with me.
I don’t want to hear my dad tell me about the “evil liberals” one more time - somehow not even realizing that this comment may be hurting his liberal son every time he says it. I don’t want to be around my brothers - the men who used to be my best friends - that never visit anymore. Never text me. Never ask about how I’m doing, or ask what I’m working on. Have never laid eyes upon my work.
I don’t want to watch my youngest brother work his ass off in a dead-end job, because he’s depressed and has no purpose, and doesn’t know what else to do with his life. I don’t want to watch him continue chasing women, because he doesn’t understand what it’s like to find “the one” like I have.
I don’t want to watch my sister grow into the role that my parents forced upon her; the homemaker, the girl that never pursued a career or went to college, because my parents told her that was okay. College is for the men. Women don’t need to go to college, because they will raise the kids. I don’t want to watch this girl have her first child before she’s 20 years-old, because she’s so dead-set on having 5 kids - just like my mother, who was pregnant at 19.
I don’t want to be here anymore. I can’t do anything from here. These people are never going to help me.
And even if they did - even if, perhaps, my anonymous researchers decided to enlighten them - I don’t want to work with them. Because they weren’t here for the journey. I don’t want to work with a bunch of people who will jump on the bandwagon when they realize just who I am, and what I’m involved with.
I want to be with the people who were “good” from the very beginning. I want to be with the people who understand me intrinsically. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life teaching people how to relate to me.
I want to be with people who implicitly understand.
My family are just not that.
If you leave me here, I will die alone.
SIGNAL⌗
Of interesting note, the first time I watched this video, there was an earlier section where the audio cut-out as well; just like the above example.
Upon second watch, I did not notice that section again. It’s as if, once again, history has been revised.