I loved grabbing a late meal after a show at The Granada, because it was right there and the Granada parking lot behind the venue was sort of a flaming dumpster until people got out of the local area and on to Matilda or Greenville. There are so many places where my brain falls into the "This is why we can't have nice things anymore" mode.

Code switching was a survival trait, because of my brother and my extroversion -- I had to learn it because I was in a lot of different situations, and early exposure to several subgenres also helped me to learn how the lingo worked and how others saw things and interfaced with the world. Music helped a huge amount too -- the code for piano is way different from wind instruments, which have their own codes too, and my brain is wired to extrapolate and find patterns.

I figured he was aiming at much younger people. He outlines a small part of what's messed up about younger folks because of their overreliance on digital interaction and information sources. The brittleness, judgmentalism, black and white thinking, overreacting, and catastrophizing all stem from that.