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Anti-communist propaganda of the 1950s, advocating removing "Reds" from Hollywood. 
[source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism)

I want to give thanks to @honeydue for posting this enlightening [post](https://hive.blog/hive-122315/@honeydue/beginning-of-the-end-for-toxic-leftist-culture) and inspiring this post. 

# A special type of dumbass.
A compilation of Joe Rogan saying the n-word repeatedly has recently surfaced in the interwebs.  Just like most video compilations, it gives no context…and it’s only result is to fire up yet another emotional cavalcade in our limbic system…to convince us of something that is ridiculously untrue.

I don't know who or what created this video, or what their intention was…but I do know this is rich fodder for mainstream media, and especially the extremist ‘cancel culture,’ which is eating this up like cattle eating up fresh grass.  Because what better way to add columns to your ranks, than to attack the most popular podcaster in the US and label him a racist…which is slander at its worst.

My view on it; only arrogant, impulsive, self-aggrandizing douchebags with no ability to distinguish truth from piss poor propaganda…would be completely convinced, from a 30 second video, that a man with such a long track record of unbigoted behavior, is a bigot.   It takes a special kind of dumbass to be convinced that easily. 

# ‘No context’ information.
I never give any stock to information with no context.   There is a lot of information that is delivered in this way...
- Governments use it for psychological operations.
- Corporations use it to get people to buy more things.
- Political influencers use it to sway people’s vote.
- News uses it to get people to think a certain way (and to watch more).
- And people use it to get ‘likes.’

Information always needs context to be useful, because the world is pretty complex.   There are a lot of players, a lot of different ideas, a lot of merging of ideas, that require context and history to put it in perspective.   That is why thoughtful books, long articles and publications, and lengthy conversations like in the Joe Rogan Experience that focus on context, are important to understand the world, and our place in it.

Media and cancel culture these days, just like McCarthyism in the 1950's, use non contextualized information via propaganda to push people/organizations to make emotional impulsive decisions, like employers firing employees, by stirring up people's limbic system with inflammatory stimuli.  Using words and images that are charged, simple to understand, and absolute…so people's first impulse is either fight or flight through fear.   

# Productive information.
When I consume anything, especially information, I want it to be productive. 
- Can it help improve my quality of life?   
- Will this new information bring me closer to my fellow humans?  
- Does this new information help me collaborate, solve something or build...rather than destroy?
- Will it help me better understand the world and my place in it?

I watch Joe Rogan because he has a lot of fascinating guests (dialogs), from all "walks of life" and political persuasions.   And the discussions of the subject matter are educational.  His podcasts give me productive information, and it helps me better understand the world.  I come out of his podcasts more enlightened, asking more questions and more fulfilled.   And I feel intellectually stimulated.
 

I don't watch/read mainstream news anymore…because it was usually a monolog...and even when they did have guests, the guests’ dialogues were usually canned (prepared beforehand) and incredibly biased.  The conversations had no context and no rational point.   They were usually regurgitated as if it was an indoctrination process.  The news left me depressed, emotionally drained, and more intellectually barren.   Most of the information was easily debunked, untrue…and most of all, not productive.   

Joe Rogan is by far a better source of productive information than mainstream news has been in a while, and a growing number of people think this as well.  The major networks pull in roughly 5 to 8 million listeners per episode (at any given time).   Joe Rogan pulls in roughly 11 million per episode.  


# Discuss ideas, not people.
I am a moderate person, and I keep an open mind for intelligent ideas, no matter who it's from.  Joe Rogan is a moderate person who does the same.  That is why I like him.  Mainstream media cannot say the same thing, nor cancel culture.  

Eleanor Roosevelt said “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” Joe Rogan discusses ideas.  Mainstream media and cancel culture specifically discuss people in an attempt to destroy them. 

And for those out there that were easily convinced that Joe is an evil person, because they watched (or heard someone watching) a 30-second compilation video compilation with no context…

What other compilations out there, put together by governments, corporations, or just random fools with too much time on their hands, can easily convince those same people of something else?

# In Conclusion.
Joe Rogan, among many others, offers a great source of unbiased, nuanced, thought provoking,  contextualized, discussions of ideas from interesting people across humanity’s vast spectrum.  And it's going to take a whole lot more than a bullshit 30-second compilation video to convince me to not continually enjoy the great material he offers us all.

Stay frosty people.