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I think youtube’s algorithm is to blame. Every time I watch anything of Joe Rogan’s I start getting bombarded with Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro recommendations and I have to delete my youtube history to get it to stop.
It’s pretty stupid since it is probably less than 1% of his content.
The notion that by and large the world is a better place than if was 20 or 30 years ago could be a thread in its own right.
You won't be surprised there is a JRE episode for that, that the world is a better place than it has ever been in histroy is the main crux of the work of Steven Pinker who has been on at least once, maybe twice
I fail to see anything much to shout about in either of the last 2 decades
Things are a lot better if you're LGB. Open homophobia was pretty much accepted 20 years ago.
From my male perspective things look a little better for women, their concerns are at least discussed these days. And look at the amount of women in eg parliament these days, much improved.
TV is better. Bikes are better. Computers and related stuff are hugely better. I think food in the UK has got better too.
The notion that by and large the world is a better place than if was 20 or 30 years ago could be a thread in its own right.
+1. Pinker’s metrics are fishy
Things are a lot better if you’re LGB. Open homophobia was pretty much accepted 20 years ago.
Maybe in your experience? But for argument’s sake (and assuming your statistics support your argument) - how do we measure the data?
For instance:
Between 2014-15 and 2018-19 the number of recorded hate crimes based on sexual orientation across England and Wales went up from 5,591 to 14,491 - a rise of 160%.
Hate crimes against transgender people have nearly quadrupled in the last five years, to 2,333 reports last year.
But campaign group Stonewall said 81% of people who experienced LGBTQ+ hate crime did not report it to the police.
I supoose the data could be skewed vs your experience/data? How would we compare?
Anecdotally, here in rural nothingshire - last year I saw my first ‘kill gays’ graffiti on the reverse of a large road sign. Haven’t noticed anything like that for decades. Never here.
But the trending clickbait and lightweight talk-radio is to defer to pop science and write such data as ‘fake news’. Or ‘wokeism’
‘What do you expect from the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation’ etc...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-51049336
So the current rising trend in social media and talkinternet (I use that term as I would TalkRadio) is to view the BBC (and MSM In general) as some ‘woke’ pro-homo ‘fake agenda’.
Which is really quite a startling indicator of a kind of fast brick through the Overton Window?
Just 14 years ago we read:
Leeds study in March 2006, which accused the BBC of being "institutionally homophobic" towards "lesbian and gays, references to them, or related issues". The Leeds researchers found that 80% of portrayals by the BBC of those who are gay or lesbian were negative and accounted for just 0.4% of output. Focus groups used in the study accused the BBC of being the worst broadcaster in terms of gay and lesbian issues and their portrayal of the LGBT community.[35]
What would Joe say about what would Steven say? Etc...
If you want to laugh until your face hurts, the first Lenny Clarke episode. I must've listened to this at least 30 times. Absolutely hilarious
This is starting out as an interesting subject,
Never heard of him until I got targeted on Youtube with the Attia cycling conversation about Lance Armstrong / health / weight loss. Next I heard he was given $200m for his show by Spotify.
The clip I watched seemed like pretty harmless chat aimed at the everyman middle American. Basically, drink more, sleep more, exercise more... Appeared pretty harmless telling his audience what they want to hear.
Then watched an episode of Chernobyl which is pretty good btw. Now those people had real world problems...
The Dubin,Flom episode was horrifying,what a shithole america is if your poor and black.Clicked on first thing this morning and had to watch the whole thing.Unforgettable podcast.
Then watched an episode of Chernobyl which is pretty good btw
Go full meta and also listen to the Chernobyl podcast!
Ohh...
Anything with Duncan Trussell
Anything with Graham Hancock
He did one a few weeks back with a Dr who "predicted" the Corona virus outbreak 10+ years ago.
The Post Malone one from a week or so ago.
Anything with Dr Rhonda Patrick
Hope that helps?
Oh cool he's got Alex Jones on again. So edgy 🙄
^ 13m+ views. In a few days. Edgier than the BBC and all the other fake news channels. You Marxinists are so finished. The Truth is coming forya. (Sarcasm)
Thanks to 1. STWrs recommending JRE and 2. Lockdown isolation insomniac youtube marathons ...
...the scales fell from my eyes and now I see a little lot further into the depths of this evolving idiocracy*
13m views in a few days.
For comparison...the UN Climate Change Action Summit (with help from Greta Thunberg) has managed
3.9m views in 12 months.
Show’s over, folks.
JR: ‘****ing ape-meat, man. I’m going to try me some of that before they burn all of those ****ers out of the woods’
AJ: ‘Hurgh hughr. Hughrurgh thing is, thing is...hurgh hurgh...cancel culture don’t want you to do that, they want the (((globalists))) to make you eat plants and become gay
JR: Here I have to make it seem as if I mildly disapprove of your baseless claims...
AJ: Let the numbers decide.
JR: Imagine an ape-meat pattie with two beefbuns?
AJ: I don’t know what, what, ‘beefbuns?’
JR: Yeah like burger buns but made from meat not bread.
AJ: Is that real? ****ing ape-burgers with beefbuns?
JR: I’m not saying I know this but...a guy I know..
Producer: (Throw some more Globalist conspiracy in, the ape-meat thing is getting weird)
JR: Anyway, so anyway, this coal you’re talking about...it’s cleaner than water you say?
AJ: Water and carbon. What they don’t want you to know is that coal is cleaner than all that gay greenwash Democrat energy that they want to force you to drink
JR: Energy drinks?
AJ: Trust me. Let the numbers decide. The soy in soylent. Soy milk.
JR: ****ing soy milk man. I don’t know...
AJ: Would you drink it?
JR: **** no. I like mine from titties. Cowtitties.
(Producer): This is good stuff JR, keep riffing on the cowtitties. New impressions are off the charts...
* Emerging from said youtube marathons has reminded me of that sadly prescient comedy film. Of that American soldier who took part in a classified hibernation experiment, only to be accidentally frozen for too long and awaken 500 years later in a dystopian world where dysgenics and commercialism have run rampant, where mankind has embraced anti-intellectualism, and society is now casting off such hard-earned traits as intellectual curiosity, social responsibility, justice, and human rights.
I've been listening to Rogan for far too long now. less interested these days but he still does have good guests on which keeps me coming back
Try episode 1309 Naval Ravikant - My memory is hazy but i remeber it being a good one. Probably a good one for right now as some people might be struggling to stay happy and motivated throughout the winter!