The View from the Anthill

A note from J. Adam Roberts, Co-Founder of HRU Media Network (HRUMN)

My name is J. Adam Roberts. I’m the co-owner and co-founder of HRU Media Network a creative outlet, a storytelling platform, and hopefully, a community for people like me. My role is creative. I help D. Steven Alex shape his projects and articles, and I make my own podcasts, write my own stuff, and follow the ideas that keep me up at night.

What fuels my work is a deep, gut-level desire to right some of the wrongs in this world. To share information freely. To get people educated really educated—because when you start digging into the systems that run our lives, you realize just how much we’ve been screwed by people who already have everything. Billionaires have done incredible damage to our country. But I’m not just some angry patriot—I want the betterment of mankind. I want a better world. I believe in that.

I love stories. I love podcasts. I love using my own life and my own mind as a way to connect with others and say, “Yeah, me too. You’re not alone.” I want us to build something together that helps us build better lives.

Real middle-class recovery.
Real emotional recovery.
Real community.

I realized a long time ago that I’m just an ant, crawling around in this world. But my goal? Be the happiest, healthiest, most successful ant I can be. And then figure out how to help the colony.

My mind doesn’t work like most people’s and I’m fine with that. I’ve been diagnosed with PTSD, OCD, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder and more. I call it “cycling” thoughts. One thought loops again and again and again until it’s burned into my brain. It’s exhausting. It’s frustrating. But it’s also my superpower, classic gift and curse.

When I was in first grade, I threw up every single day before school because of anxiety. My teacher was strict and she could smell weakness and went for it. That’s how the world works sometimes. If you’re wired differently, you learn early on to either adapt or get crushed.

And somehow, I adapted. Not by becoming “normal” but by refusing to give up on the idea that my mind has value, even if it doesn’t work like everyone else’s.

I believe the people still have power. I believe we can take back control of our country without blood in the streets. I don’t want violence, I want awakening. But I get why some people are fed up enough to want to break things. I’ve been there.

My heart is with the working class, with people struggling through mental health issues, and with anyone who feels like they’re just trying to hang on while greed and corruption run the world. I cover politics because I have to, not because I love it. I’m an independent, and while I lean progressive, I care more about people than party lines.

I want people to feel heard. To feel seen. To feel fired up. To feel like they can do something. That we can fix things, even if it feels impossible. Even if sometimes it feels like we have to break stuff first.

This is an invitation.
To think.
To feel.
To have hard conversations.
To build something together that’s better than what we’ve been handed.

Welcome to HRUMN. Let’s get to work.

—J. Adam Roberts
March 27, 2025