Fighting the Good Fight

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 …

https://www.triggerpod.co.uk [ spotify.com code: open.spotify.com/episode/5waMZ3DB1ntj51vE20onZr , ca. 22:27 – 22:35 ]
Will Storr: “Fight the Good Fight!”

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!

https://joerogan.com [ spotify.com code: open.spotify.com/episode/221RAH36sgmCCf1XwSzo14 , ca. 21:39 – 21:59 ]

Are People “Exposed” (or “Siphoned Off”) to Echo Chambers?

Keywords: Journalists , Scientists

It probably matters whose opinion someone pays attention to:

If you open, say, a mainstream newspaper back in the day, [and] you go to the opinions section (like I’m an opinion writer), you’ll read …

https://www.jrepodcast.com/episode/joe-rogan-experience-2082-dr-debra-soh [ca. 1:29:10 – 1:29:25]

— yes: you’ll read something. You might agree or disagree with it, but the real question is: is it mainstream or is it echo chamber?

I generally don’t expose myself a lot in public. I prefer to express myself, thank you very much.

All those people that attack people constantly online they’re all like psychologically damaged and a lot of them fall off after a while because they can’t take it anymore […]

Keywords: The Joe Rogan Experience Video , Bridget Phetasy , The Joe Rogan Experience

People resonate towards positivity — they really generally do.

Joe Rogan Experience / JRE episode 1941 [3:05:40 – 3:06:30] — e.g. https://jre123.com/video/1941-bridget-phetasy-the-joe-rogan-experience-video

You see what you want to see

Keywords: {0}

Most of it was something that people were projecting onto me and I was a convenient canvas for that, because nobody knew who I was. Right? Because I was a nobody, and so that meant I could be an anybody, and then once people decided what that person was, like having that be corrected … you know … — yes, you see me right now, this is how I am, and I honestly feel that a lot of the negative things that a lot of people have felt about me have been a projection of some kind of nightmarish imagination that they have, they’ve just projected onto me.

Amanda Knox, “This Past Weekend w Theo Von #225” [ 1:18:35 – 1:19:25 ]