One of the things I wanted to talk to you about — I wanted to play this, but we decided we shouldn’t play it because it could get copyright-struck and we don’t want to get the episode … we don’t want anybody to have any sort of way to get it down …
You and I have outlets to expose this. The average person doesn’t. They gotta keep their fuckin’ mouth shut, or else they’re gonna lose their job (and they’re told that, almost … um, …) — I think, you know, that’s what, you know, that’s why it’s sort of incumbent upon people like you and I to kind of step up, you know, I mean Jordan Peterson does it all the time, right?
Several months ago I got a copy of an interview with Will Storr (by Joe Rogan, who also referenced the interview Will Storr did with Triggernometry). Both interviews are about Mr. Storr’s recently published book “The Status Game”). With respect to whatever he refers to as “social media”, Mr.Storr says:
It’s a status gold rush: there are millions and millions of just ordinary people with oridinary lives who suddenly feel that they’re fighting the good fight against the forces of darkness …
During Joe Rogan’s interview, Joe mentions something related to a privilege he points out quite often during his podcasts:
I think we’re conversation-starved. I think the way humans figure out what’s the best way to behave and what’s the nicest way that we can all get along, what makes the most sense, is when we talk the most. And most of the day, you can’t really talk. Most of the day, you can’t sit down for a couple hours — like this!