Joe Rogan just signed an exclusive deal with Spotify. We assessed his podcast in 2019, calling it “the factory where red pills get sugarcoated” and “an essential platform for ‘freethinkers’ who hate the left.”
Joe Rogan ExperienceFirst and foremost they are selling themselves: their books, their podcasts, their websites, their supplements, their claims to some secret knowledge about how the world works. “Make hay while the sun shines” is how frequent Rogan guest Jordan Peterson. Peterson and his colleagues are intent on spinning hay into gold before they are inevitably eclipsed by newer, dumber gurus. Most guests of talk shows have something or other to promote.
The common thread is the privileging of “common sense” over all other inputs in the struggle to forge a life philosophy, and the idealization of one’s own life experience over that of other people. Because Rogan knows McInnes, it seems obvious to him that the man is just a trollish weirdo “maniac,” not an actual racist.
The podcast’s fixation on “learning” is set against Rogan’s clear distrust of traditional schooling. “It was just nonsense. Just droning on. Become a part of the machine. Submit. You are a round peg; you are not a square peg,” Rogan said in an early episode, referring to his high school years in Newton, Massachusetts. So it’s no surprise that Rogan has been very receptive to Peterson, the foremost anti-intellectual academic of the Trump era.
Does he? Peterson is intent on demonizing the entire notion of Marxist analysis as intolerable and anti-Western, since, after all, Soviet Russia was Marxist and millions of people died in the gulags. This is a hell of a leap. Academic Marxism is basically the act of analyzing subjects from economic and class-based perspectives. Peterson willfully and knowingly conflates academic Marxism with Stalinism, as a means of discrediting the intelligentsia who call him an idiot.
What can you do? It’s Joe Rogan’s show, and he can interview whomever he wants, and he can conduct those interviews however he so chooses, and that is fine. I want to hear a variety of views and opinions, particularly from those with whom I disagree. There is merit in having these viewpoints out there where they can be mulled, critiqued, refuted, and eventually mined as fodder for opposition research.
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