Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

So if a degree isn't validating, then Joe Rogan's educational background isn't relevant.

 

Depends on what you do with it. There are any number of politicians with Ivy League degrees that are entirely reprehensible.

 

Joe Rogan is a lunkheaded moron. Always has been.

RFK Jr. is pretty obviously on the T. He’s an older version of Rogan with a famous pedigree.

 

So you cannot base on argument on how many college credits a person has. However many Joe Rogan has, his arguments stand on their own.

Doctors make the same silly arguments. God bless them all.

 

Life is a full buffet and yet there are some people who insist on a diet of leftover Potatoes.

 

Any doctor who is anti vax should lose their medical license. They have no business being a doctor.

 

This is the crux of the issue, with almost everyone nowadays, because it's the very real danger with mass media and social media in general. It's very hard to contain and regulate what people see, read, hear and know these days. And unfortunately, that is meaning that most people know less about more things than they ever have before.

We are both less educated, in a way, and more educated, in a way, at the same time. Learnedness is both easier, and harder, to obtain.

 

This is very true. Lord knows that I've posted tweets that seemed reasonable and plausible here and then gotten a "Well, actually..." that left me saying "Sorry, my error".

As I said above, if I do that here, the pool of those who might buy the faulty reasoning is pretty small. When it's millions of people, that's a bigger problem.

 

Now that I think about it, when I complain about opinion leaders, isn’t that the whole purpose of journalism? Our job is to help people make sense of the world. Most people are too busy with their own lives . They don’t have time to research all of things or follow them too closely. They need someone they trust to make sense of things for them. For many people that’s Joe Rogan or Tucker Carlson. Maybe I’m just jealous that it’s them and not me.

 

Most people are not too busy with their own lives. They're just too lazy, and not interested enough to do hardly any due diligence.

That's where journalists can, and should, help. They should not be lazy, themselves. They should not be playing into or contributing to the prevailing trend of minimal information, misinformation and disinformation.