SadKangaroo wrote on Nov 29
th, 2024 at 4:30pm:
He described Rogan as "deeply repulsive" and accused him of exploiting societal fears and anxieties for malevolent purposes. Check.
Joe Rogan should be understood as solely an entertainer - an amalgam of Archie Bunker and Homer Simpson.
Yes, he's an avid conspiracy theory enthusiast in the way male early teenagers are superhero enthusiasts.
When he was proved wrong, in real time, about the money Beyonce and others were paid to support Harris, he laughed and quipped, 'but I want it to be true!'.
When he interviews genuinely informed people, often not even famous people, (like 83-year-old Merlin Tuttle, who spent decades in the Amazon studying bats!), he proves himself to be a naturally gifted conversationalist.
The problem is he's become the world's most famous victim of the Dunning-Kruger effect. He appears to believe he comprehends the subjects in peer terms his real experts explain in layman's terms to him and his audience, but cannot discern an expert from a well-spoken grifter like Graham Hancock or a logic-twisting fraud like Bret Weinstein.
Due to his fame, of course, many have copied his format and hailed it as a genuine replacement for the many-faulted mainstream media - now branded the alternative new media - which is descending into a soup of medieval religiosity and primitive mysticism.
Of course, politicians were never going to be far behind the grifters in recognising the power of this new kind of entertainment and exploiting it.
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