I only finished part2, will find time to finish part3 soon, but so far, I mostly agree with the ER doc rather than Malone… anyway, I’ll write more about it until I actually finish part3.
Regarding Jon Stewart thing, but I am not asking Neil Young to personally kick Joes ass! We are debating public policies here. Rather than just asking Spotify to remove JR, we need to ask Joe to have somebody who’s a good debater, trustworthy authority figure to clear things up! Forget Fauci, but maybe this ER doctor who actually responded on Twitter at length!
But going on the podcast not just to make Joe look bad, but to educate him and his listeners.
Yeah, if I’m in a bar and met someone I dislike, I most likely won’t stick around engaging in a verbal fight too. No need to get too personal. However, when it comes to public policy, we can’t just shut things down, right?
In politics, Naturally each party just want their president/candidate no matter how lame he is, the opposition party must be lamer, right? It’d be nice to just have an insurrection to cancel the guy we don’t like…, but we need to have public debates/elections between the 2 and just let voters decide for themselves.
I really don’t think we need to actively control the narrative and shut other ideas down. Truth will prove itself over time. People can be stupid, but eventually they will turn around. Jon Stewart’s ‘engage’ is probably for us to engage our own family and friends rather strangers in bars. If it’s engaging Joe Rogan, naturally we can’t send Neil young! He could write a song about it… rather than pulling his music.
[edit] ok I finished part3.
Yeah, I think it’ll be great for this ER doc to go on the JRE to have a chat with Joe. I did not catch him saying JRE should be canceled, but of course he is obviously very irritated by RM’s disinformation and JR seemingly letting him off easy.
Like I said, I don’t really know Joe that well, but at least the guy admits his mistakes and he was obviously very provaccines during the early stages of the pandemic. It’d be worth asking him what happened? Why are you leaning this way now? What info have led to this change? And let's unpack these new info that you got...
Anyway, clearly even if Spotify dumps JRE, surely he could set up his podcast elsewhere or independently on the web and he’d still get millions of listeners.
So yeah, I still agree with Stewart that engagement is probably best course of action.
To use science as example: scientists themselves come up with various 'theories' when confronted with a new thing they don't quite understand. They would then test their various theories and let them drop away over time... not just have a chief or the most powerful scientist prematurely declare certain theories as conspiratory and discard them and force other scientists to never talk about nor test them...
Just let each scientist or people do their thing. The truth must win out in the end.
Free speech/religion is based on the assumption that nobody really knows the absolute truth. I think that assumption is spotify on! No matter how stupid or conspiratory it sounds, maybe we could still learn something? The other thing we need to self reflect is why has our government become so untrustworthy?
We've see so many of our politicians preach the do as I say not as I do. Telling people to lock down, but they'd attend parties. Governments really need to be more convincing... in the world where nobody really have their acts together all the time, I appreciate some free speech... and the ability to freely choose... and I'll also learn to take responsibility of my chosen actions.