<story><title>Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience</title><url>https://lulu.substack.com/p/joe-rogan-has-a-werewolf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>Years ago I listened to JRE for a while.  I enjoyed the approach that I would sum up as &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t know, let&amp;#x27;s hear what some folks think.&amp;quot;  It felt fair and open and interesting.&lt;p&gt;But at some point it occurred, &amp;quot;Shouldn&amp;#x27;t at some point, if we&amp;#x27;re listening to all this that, we stop being a dumb guy who doesn&amp;#x27;t know anything and actually have opinion &amp;#x2F; challenge some of these things with some facts &amp;#x2F; solid ideas?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;But I never saw that happen, and as time went on the &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t know&amp;quot; excuses just felt ... more and more insufficient, dumb by choice, or just excuses.&lt;p&gt;At some point just being &amp;quot;dumb&amp;quot; and listening to every rando person makes you susceptible to &amp;#x2F; a target of a bunch of horrible randos with bad ideas ...  An open approach is admirable, but not learning along the way is not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timr</author><text>&amp;gt; At some point just being &amp;quot;dumb&amp;quot; and listening to every rando person makes you susceptible to &amp;#x2F; a target of a bunch of horrible randos with bad ideas ... An open approach is admirable, but not learning along the way is not.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know what show you&amp;#x27;re listening to. I&amp;#x27;m not a regular listener, by any means, but I hear Rogan routinely bring up things that he learns from other&amp;#x2F;prior guests. Often to challenge whatever he&amp;#x27;s hearing in the moment.&lt;p&gt;It really feels to me that people are just looking for reasons to attack him because he &amp;quot;platforms&amp;quot; voices they don&amp;#x27;t like. That was fine when he was just a comedian with a podcast, but now he has An Audience (tm), so it&amp;#x27;s Bad.&lt;p&gt;Rogan has certainly had some cranks on his show (IMO), but I&amp;#x27;m comfortable enough with my intellect that I can listen to these (or not) without having my brain turned to mush.</text></comment>
<story><title>Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience</title><url>https://lulu.substack.com/p/joe-rogan-has-a-werewolf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>Years ago I listened to JRE for a while.  I enjoyed the approach that I would sum up as &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t know, let&amp;#x27;s hear what some folks think.&amp;quot;  It felt fair and open and interesting.&lt;p&gt;But at some point it occurred, &amp;quot;Shouldn&amp;#x27;t at some point, if we&amp;#x27;re listening to all this that, we stop being a dumb guy who doesn&amp;#x27;t know anything and actually have opinion &amp;#x2F; challenge some of these things with some facts &amp;#x2F; solid ideas?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;But I never saw that happen, and as time went on the &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t know&amp;quot; excuses just felt ... more and more insufficient, dumb by choice, or just excuses.&lt;p&gt;At some point just being &amp;quot;dumb&amp;quot; and listening to every rando person makes you susceptible to &amp;#x2F; a target of a bunch of horrible randos with bad ideas ...  An open approach is admirable, but not learning along the way is not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deebosong</author><text>Not sure if this is what you&amp;#x27;re pointing at, but I feel similarly about those who very much enjoy talking about new and different ideas&amp;#x2F; perspectives, but are loathe to test out, live out, and integrate new and challenging ideas into their belief systems. It&amp;#x27;s more like, there&amp;#x27;s a relegated space in their minds for &amp;quot;ideas to consider and discuss, even agree with and champion,&amp;quot; but that relegated space is removed from their core value system, which has no intention to be challenged, tinkered with, examined, and open to replacing faulty mechanisms and functions.&lt;p&gt;Seems like talking about ideas for some is more a form of amusement&amp;#x2F; entertainment&amp;#x2F; mental stimulation (in the same way recreational or escapist drugs can be mentally stimulating), especially if there are no outward signs &amp;amp; indications that a person is committed to testing out, applying, integrating, and even replacing formerly held and inferior ideas – a process which involves a lot of trial end error, failures, humility, perseverance, and delayed gratification. It might seem open-minded and intellectual, but if across time, there&amp;#x27;s no change in belief via deeper understanding from considering new and different perspectives, that then results in outward action, then all the talk in the world about ideas and perspectives is just hot air.&lt;p&gt;Maybe that&amp;#x27;s not Joe Rogan and his loyal audience? I dunno!</text></comment>