It truly is the most accurate description of the man I know. And the fact that there are millions like him in his audience explains a lot about America. On the bright side, I’ve never had a sense of malice from him. He just comes across as somebody who has never learned to think, who is curious about the world, but dumb, and who is, with agonizing slowness, sincerely trying to understand the universe having only incredibly impoverished intellectual resources and tools to draw on. I don’t think him a bad person. But I do think it a massive tragedy that we, as a people, elevate people like him to guide us.
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I’m old enough to remember looking forward to interviews conducted by David Frost and Larry King. They weren’t perfect but boy has the discourse become a lot more coarse!
Linking to a flaming Jew-hater like E. Michael Jones is not a great look when you are complaining about coarse discourse.
Where Rogan and most Americans fall flat is a lack of understanding of critical thinking and how to sort good information from bad.
We have access to infinite amounts of information. The noise to signal ratio is enormous.
Rogans method and that of most Americans is to treat all scientific fact claims as equally valid. In effect, try them all on and take home the ones you like. As if it’s just a personal taste in fashion.
That is disastrous. Joe likes to say “I’m just asking questions.”
That’s great. That’s the beginning of knowledge. But you cannot get any further if you don’t know how to evaluate the proposed answers to those questions.
Nice video there Scott, you fucking antisemitic troll!
Yes, Rogan has a reasonably good moral compass although it can go off-course if someone feeds him factually inaccurate content.
His “have a f***ing heart” plea a fortnight ago on immigration was actually pretty articulate and well-stated.
And at any rate he is a far better human being for young males to follow as a role model than Andrew Tate and the other would be Tom-Riddle-meets-Tom-Ripley chancers online.