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Because the median human is as stupid as a rock. As Rolling Stone illustrates today, Joe Rogan is what an idiot thinks a smart person sounds like.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/jordan-pet...

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The average person isn’t stupid or dumb and I’ve found when people claim they are it’s usually a projection.

The average person is not stupid, but the average person is irrational about some topic that has high visibility, usually due to tense emotions. I find that this is usually what people are referring to when they say people are "stupid" - not that they aren't clever or don't have good instincts or are low IQ.

That’s definitely the case, I just take issue with calling them stupid.

Rolling Stone, the publication that lied about Oklahoma ERs over ran by "horse dewormer overdoses" who had a room of gun shot victims that could be seen? (bc you know... Oklahoma rolls hard with those gun shot victims)

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/rolling-stone-cov...

Rolling Stone - the publication that ran fake rape accusations?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_on_Campus

And you want to talk about dumb as a rock and cite that shit hole rag?

Weird. A publication that has gotten a few things wrong in its 60 year history. Unprecedented.

Show your sychophancy to authoritarianism harder.

Yes, having the reasonable expectation that publications with long histories occasionally get things wrong is definitely an immutable support for authoritarianism...

> Joe Rogan is what an idiot thinks a smart person sounds like.

Could replace Joe with either of the Weinsteins as well.

And the Weinsteins are both very smart. But being smart can mean you’re very good at making a compelling argument for something that’s wrong.

That’s what they do. Same with Jordan Peterson.

If only we could have the world run exclusively by smart people. Let me guess, you’d be one of them?

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