• Touching_Grass@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I honestly say this with all seriousness. Go listen to the latest JRE podcast with Joe Rogan for a masterclass in cognitive dissonance. It is something that should be meme material like nothing else.

    These two fucking guys spend the podcast droning on about how twitter was evil and social media was bad because it was controlled by the left. So he had to buy it and force it to change so it was more like what he wanted it to be. It is the funniest yet cringiest thing have I’ve listened too lately.

    Listening to a billionaire factory owner talk about how he’s saving the world with a multimillionaire C podcaster is something to witness first hand.

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      8 months ago

      I listened to JRE regularly between 2019 until his sellout move from Youtube to Spotify in 2020.

      The really sad thing about Joe is that you could tell he had (maybe deep down, still has, maybe?) a more reasonable side to his temperament. Some of his political sensibilities were decidedly liberal, even though he is mostly associated with being batshit insane these days and/or as a puppet mouthpiece of the right.

      I guess $200,000,000 can really change a guy.

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        8 months ago

        The recommendation is not “woah go listen to this, so insightful!”

        The recommendation is “they attempt to articulate their mentality, and it serves as a study of cognitive dissonance.”

        You arent being told to go listen to a lecture, and study the words of a master.

        Youre being told to go observe a massively influencial mentality in the wild, and study them in a contained environment.

        Its like being told to read the bible. Its not because you should be christian. Its because this book influences the world around you heavily, and you should understand it.