The fascination of his podcast is watching him bungle around like a knuckle dragger, joking about what a meathead he is, then earnestly apply his intellect to grasp and articulate a problem with surprising clarity. It’s like Flowers for Algernon on speed.
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He occasionally gets kooks on his show and in general there is an unfiltered, freewheeling quality to all its choices that yields the occasional problematic guest treated with the same friendly regard he treats everyone else
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He is nonetheless a portal to the continuation of lifelong learning to millions, the Everyman surrogate for an audience of everymen who have been introduced to paleontologists, linguists, astrophysicists along with power lifters, MMA fighters, and comedians
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This combination of the formal knowledge of the lab and lecture hall mixed with the attitudes and canny prudence of the street and locker room is distinctive in all media
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It’s the cultural manifestation of the homosocial environment at its best, with its rough teasing never tipping over into hazing or bullying or toxicity, and instead of the anti intellectualism of the old Howard Stern show, you get Rogan’s infectious curiosity
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It is watched by an audience multiples the size of any network or cable news anchor and is among the most interesting things happening in American culture.
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It also suggests one pathway toward breaking the anti-intellectualism of the homosocial environment that contributes to the large gap in males attending college: reframe the world of ideas as “cool shit” and have at least a few street smart bros teaching it
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Do not underestimate the significance of this figure and the resulting sexual economics as the root cause of the gender wars https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1166415042356621312?s=21 …
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Go back and listen to old Howard Stern or Opie and Anthony shows to hear what "politically incorrect" media aimed at men used to be like. I recall an O + A segment in which stepfather would call in sexual fantasies they had toward their stepdaughters.
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Rogan shows how dramatically men have evolved along every dimension men can evolve -- ethically, aesthetically, intellectually -- in terms of their openness to experience and to diversity, and in terms of their overall decency.
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The idea that he exists on some frightening far right fringe is literally insane.
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Rogan appeared on the Stern show a couple decades ago, and you can see by his demeanor and manner of speaking, that he was a very different person. DMT opens up minds.
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