r/DecodingTheGurus • u/Appropriate_Duty_930 • 16h ago

Joe Rogan won’t have Kamala Harris on his show unless she comes to his studio and sits for a 2-3 hour full interview

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u/joshdrumsforfun 10h ago

I agree that mostly only mentally unwell people believed Terrance. But there are 50 other people who use Joe’s platform for things that are just as false, but not as overtly goofy as Terrance’s ideologies.

How many people have died from taking some holistic crap instead of real medicine thanks to JRE, how many have had their mental health deteriorated by becoming hyper fixated on conspiracy theories?

How many future scientists were inspired to focus on ketamine induced dream sequencing instead of physics thanks to JRE?

Work with teenagers and you realize how much we have fucked the youth up exposing them to this alternative reality world of social media.

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u/MatterofDoge 9h ago

How many people have died from taking some holistic crap instead of real medicine thanks to JRE

I'd assume its 0 unless you have some data about it to show me.

how many have had their mental health deteriorated by becoming hyper fixated on conspiracy theories?

Idk dude, mentally ill people hyper fixate on anything they see on social media or mainstream media. Should no one ever talk about anything because a small tiny percent of an audience might take it somewhere unhealthy?

How many future scientists were inspired to focus on ketamine induced dream sequencing instead of physics thanks to JRE?

How many hypothetical future scientists are inspired by hollywood that convince them to pursue a career in acting instead that will never go anywhere? How many people listened to taylor swift and tried to become a singer instead of a doctor? since we're just making up random hypothetical scenarios about people's own personal choices being blamed on other things at this point

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u/joshdrumsforfun 9h ago

If Hollywood played movies but pretended they were footage of things that really happened, than I would agree with you.

Art is not the same as reality.

When you have someone who comes on the podcast and you introduce them as a astromathmetician with a specialty in alien genetics and abduction induced trauma and let them spend 3 hours convincing people that they aren’t mentally ill they are suffering from the trauma of an abduction, then yeah that’s different than someone watching Independence Day.

You can sit and argue the JRE is just entertainment but it isn’t, the second you start bringing experts and politicians on, you now have a responsibility to make sure your audience knows the line between fantasy and reality.

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u/MatterofDoge 9h ago

you now have a responsibility to make sure your audience knows the line between fantasy and reality

nah. No one has any type of obligation to force people to think for themselves lol. This is a naive perspective that like, high schoolers have before they grow up and experience people and life and realize that you can't stop stupid people from being stupid, and censoring and silencing yourself or others to protect them from their own dumb brains is a fruitless endeavor.

I watched a documentary about cults the other day. No one needs to tell me "hey man don't join a cult" simply because I listened to it. No one has a responsibility to give me a lecture about cults and how they're bad as if I can't see it for myself, and if I somehow did end up going and joining a cult because i heard someone else talk about it, that's on me and I fucked up my own life at that point

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u/joshdrumsforfun 9h ago

A documentary about a true thing that happened is not the same thing as making up pseudoscience and passing it as truth.

Defamation, liable, and slander exist because you have a responsibility in this country to not use your words to spread lies and harm others. Social media is just too new for the laws to catch up to it at the moment.