Joe Rogan

And if you don't toe the line, somebody else will.

Yeah.

And you're living a great life.

You drive a Mercedes.

You live in a nice house.

Why would you fuck this up?

Over a UFO story, just tell your friends.

Yeah.

It's easy to get people to comply like that, especially when they're dependent upon, you know, whether it's a corporate entity like CNN or whether it's New York Times or whatever it is.

It's not hard to get people to comply.

Well, there's also the problem with what percentage of people that are even commenting are actual people.

Exactly.

There's a huge amount of bots that are communicating on all the social media platforms.

A giant percentage of the comments are not real people.

Yeah.

No, you're right.

So they would comment on anything and just say, wow, that's amazing.

I think it erodes the consensus intelligence, like the overall level of intelligent discourse that a society puts out.

If you have a town square, which is like Twitter is our town square, right?

If that town square is populated by fake people, like enormous percentage populated by fake people that are just designed to –