People seem to have difficulty recognizing charlatans in present day. The mere fact that somebody has put out 1500 podcasts and is now currently peddling to spotify to the tune of 100M bucks should tell his listeners what the primary intent of Joe Rogan is, and it isn't to inform, its to shamelessly self promote and become a cult news alternative conduit. Rogan IS the snake oil salesman. Not even disguised.
Guess what Joe Rogan acolytes of decades, you were duped. This guy doesn't care what you believe, how much you know, its obvious what he cares about. It isn't enlightenment.
Regardless of spectrum, people deferring so resolutely to podcasts in present day to obtain information is dangerous in its potential to misinform. Its allows individuals like this to yield so much power, too much say, and listening to a podcast is a PASSIVE form of obtaining *information*.
In reality, regardless of the message offered, consuming passive podcasts is subjecting one self to one source propaganda, willingly, and that he has so many listeners and so many podcasts its deconstructive as it captures so many people that might otherwise read books to enlighten themselves and engage in what is the EVALUATIVE process of reading. In which one mentally ponders the quality of the information, can put down the book, read it more carefully, critique information, and balance it out with the writings of countless other authors. The true intellectual process and obtaining of knowledge is through the lifetime act of reading. The medium in which learned congress has been conducted for centuries.
Podcasts, videos, they don't offer that, they are instead formulated as entertainment (even labeled infotainment) and with added personality cult as bait, with selective streaming of information contained within. Its depressing that so many people are willing to submit to such indoctrination instead of being analytical, evaluative, and utilizing broad source information.
