joe rogan is a bit of a funky dude. i think most people have a mate like him. liable to watch a documentary or read an article and start extolling its virtues like its some long considered position that they hold dear before being distracted by whatever they imbibe next.
he's pretty scattershot, grabs different bits of philosophy or ideology and packs them into an uncomfortably stuffed but entirely digestible burrito. he's fairly unremarkable.
what does make him remarkable is his ability to extend this to his guests. he brings on supposed firebrands and iconoclasts from all circles and exposes them for the fairly unremarkable people they are. it's almost like if you take the vast majority of people and just chat bollocks with them for three hours, they become unremarkable. they become just like people you know. not necessarily people you like, or don't have pretty big disagreements with, but not people you'd outright refuse to have round your table at the pub.
this is GAF's problem. GAF exists in a climate where hyper-reality is reality. a comicbook universe of heroes and villains where an insidious evil lurks under every wonky opinion or perceived prejudice. apathy is so gen x and puritanical crusades are the counter culture, pushed by desperate need to validate what amounts to an ideological fetch quest.
individuals billed as ideological wrecking balls chat shit with rogan for a few hours and expose themselves as harmless wonks, and to a gaffer who has spent hours or days of their life building up the threat of this person's existence, that's like the bottom dropping out of their world.
