Food For Thought

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[timwhite]

Paul Simon said it best almost sixty years ago when he sang "....a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest..." That's certainly the world in which we live today...

[markmattimore]

The fast food analogy is very accurate. I've been puzzled by Rogan's popularity for years now. It never made any sense to me. But then I realized that for a certain type of media consumers his show is probably considered deeply intellectual. Of course it's not. Most of it is just hot garbage. But I think it's scratches the intellectual curiosity itch for some people. Sort of like NPR for the uneducated. It makes them feel smart and informed but, just like fast food, it's really just hollow empty nonsense.

[hamsterecology]

Nailed it…. Infotainment, fast food for the mind…. We may be completely f’d

[mikecaetano]

Rogan used to feed worms to contestants. Now he feeds worms to his audience. He still works for the fear factory.

[dr.williams]

Thx DB, excellent analogy. Say what you want about fast food, but it may put the final nail in the ancient🍊💩's coffin. McDonald's® may save America.

[danadkins]

McRogan... over 100, 000, 000 served😮😮😮😮😮😮

[Mimi-cqbg]

Rogan used to have actual good points.

I was smoking, smoking weed, ate garbage, lived in a toxic relationship. And I felt like crap.

Was Rogan who said it.

That when you smoke, when you’re smoking too much weed or drinking too much, you’re eating garbage, you’re living a life you don’t want, that you’re filling your body with poison. By what right should you expect to feel good? And sometimes when you’re that down, when you’re that deep into your own troubles and trauma- you need someone to say it simple.

I needed to hear it.

And in five years time, I quit smoking, quit weed, started feeding myself- started loving myself. Got out of that bs marriage.

All these years later? I thank Joe Rogan. For who he was at that moment. And I grieve a little for who he could have been.

[Queenofcore]

I dont get my information from Rogan or fox like i dont eat out of a toilet. But this shaming of these stupid people, didnt work. They voted. And here we are

[johnshafer]

If the real Jordan Peterson spoke like this Jordan Peterson the world would be in a much better place.

[JJ-qoth]

I never understood the fascination with a man who doesn't give a crap whether or not he's actually correct when he says something.

[Merchant]

But I was told that MAGA's are not sheep? Least that is what I was told.

[virtualyme]

I don't know why anyone would equate Rogan or any number of shows on the air or internet as news. It's people talking and just because you can watch them it doesn't make them right or better or anything.

[MrUndersolo]

Rogan simply lets anyone one and gives them a very large and loud bullhorn to spout off on anything and everything.

[frankwerner]

a lot of people let someone else do their thinking for them. Example: Your union supports the orange man, so that's how you vote. Do you think for yourself? Orange man hates unions? Nope. you vote 100% union.

[sMoviesRule]

This is perfect. Rogan is the Chick-fil-A of podcasts.

[stillinhere]

I always saw Rogan as the devolution of talk radio. Like the next step after Howard Stern. The next step might just be a gorilla in a suit grunting at the audience while some blockhead spouts off even more nonsense. I keep hoping they’ll convince the audience to take long walks off short planks.

[Classwarvet]

Here's the thing though. The left can (and should) make the same thing. I want to see easy to digest bits on left-leaning topics and make it entertaining. We need to have people like Studds Terkel, Upton Sinclair, and John Steinbeck but for the modern era. If those people exist, we need the algorithm to push those people to the forefront.

[gregoryh]

Love how these plebs take Stoner Joe as fact.

[ryanbrown]

This explains one of the reasons I hate when people try to manipulate each other

[OnWatch]

Going further with this analogy, I feel like there are plenty of good relatively healthy restaurants that became fast food junk joints. Churches and certain main stream news medias comes to mind.