Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "Social Media Led to Trump's Rise, America Need to Grapple With It | The Secret Podcast Preview" video.

  1. Being an only child I learned how to be alone, and self-sufficiency, at a very young age. best life skills ever.
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  2. "Me? I like the quiet" - That's not to say that I don't like some people and enjoy being around them (in small doses). But only because it makes going home and being by myself with the cat such a wonderful thing. I don't think I'll ever be in a serious and spend-lots-of-time together relationship with a partner ever again. I enjoy my own company way too much. And I don't have share my take-out food with anyone when it's just me or worry about what we're watching or listening to - or not.
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  3. There's a memory I have from when I was really young, probably six. It was the mid 1970's, so no cell phones yet, and my family had just moved into a new home in a new neighborhood. I went out to explore and met some of the neighborhood kids, making friends with them the way us Gen X kids did back then. We spent the afternoon and into the early evening playing on our street. Problem was my parents didn't know where I was, and when they finally found me they were furious that I hadn't come home to let them know where I was and what I was doing. I specifically remember my mom being really upset and saying that she "had pictures of me hurt or dead on some piece of construction equipment" (there was some heavy machinery near by being used for clearing land and new home construction). I was totally confused what she meant because, one I was fine, but also she clearly didn't have any pictures like that. I realized later that she meant mental images, but it always stayed with me as a weird thing to say. these days, when everyone has a phone that can take pictures, it might not be such weird thing to say to a kid. At least not as long as the parent actually had the pictures.
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