Watch And Learn - About Me (Deeper Dive)

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A closer look at the person who put this together (i.e. your present author), from the “About Me” section of “Watch and Learn.“

You can find the various sections and clips, with their respective embedded videos, here:

I’ve always favored the underdog. I have always been one, my childhood a daily trial of near-constant targeting by bullies and brutes who hated me because I used big words and read books faster than they could and was always the first one to raise their hand with the right answer in class.

You’d be surprised how little changes in 50 years. I’m still usually the first one in class to raise my hand with the right answer, and the bullies of the world still hate me for it intensely.

Frankly the feeling is mutual, but they deserve their chances to be better too. I got mine. As long as they’re acting in good faith, forgiveness is always possible.

I’m a musician. I started playing drums at age 8 and have enjoyed varying minor degrees of success and notoriety doing that over the years in various places.

I first became deeply interested in propaganda and social control through mass communication when the US Libertarian Party started trying to recruit me to run for office, in part because of my visibility as a musician. That was when I was maybe 19 or 20 – not old enough to drink legally, for sure.

After having a life including trying my best to be a dad after I became one at eighteen, I attended Western Michigan University starting at age 40 in 2010, majoring in communication and minoring in political science. I completed all my major and minor coursework, but financial incapacity forced me to drop out roughly two full-time semesters short of my BA. I’d like to finish some day.

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