:O He shows his face!
You know, I didn't know what to think when I saw the title, 'cause you know, Rogan's got a reputation as a cool dude, ballsy etc. But yeah, you make some excellent points.
As for having the chance to be a voice...well, seems to me not many people know what a voice means anymore, even if they have one, if they have people listening to them, they don't know what to do with it. And there's an exceptional amount of control - if you've got a voice, as an independent I mean, you're going to be taken over by someone sooner or later, they're going to make you their voice, because otherwise, they have the means to drown you out.
It's either with us or not at all, you know?
I think you have mapped out the problem pretty well there. It appears people would rather tell lies to a few million than the truth to a few thousand. It's both hilarious and embarrassing as a human being when you realise that in the end, it all comes down to a craving of attention. The problem is that we've too few adults in this world who are grown up. That is to say; aware of the full breadth of their responsibility. None could be aware of such and still do what some of these people are doing.
Well, I guess a lot of these people set out to do something, you know, make it big in radio or TV or whatever and if they sink now, then there's nowhere else to go. that's it, dream gone. Because I've got a feeling that although what you say here -
is true, I doubt that the powers that be would allow people like Rogan to go on speaking to even a few thousand. I don't think it's I could make you bigger, I think it's You either do this with us, speak for us, preach our shit, or you shut up, off the air, gone, you know? Just like with politics.
A friend was telling me the other day about some student who got into politics and all the big shots called her to a dinner, where they tried to persuade her to invest in this, make money in that, you know, buy into some crooked deals (like politicians do) and she said 'no, she just wanted to do a good thing'. Well, she was marginalized and shunned, got no support, nobody backed her campaign and so on (I doubt she made it far).
Same with personalities like this guy, I suppose.
Yes- the system was designed to protect itself. It's very difficult to even conceive a way to undo what we've done to ourselves. But, I believe that we can. First we will need some people willing to risk losing everything to do the right thing. It wouldn't be a big ask, if not for the fact that we've drifted so far apart from one another too many of us now remain apathetic towards those that are not a part of our immediate lives.
I am becoming convinced that the only way back from this is to start really talking to one another on the local level. Getting to know everyone we walk by the street and remind ourselves that there's enough of us to do whatever we want with this world, and that every life is worth protecting as much as our own or those of our loves ones.
I have put it one way before actually that I rather liked. The day that everyone of us consider a stranger to be a person who may be in need of help rather than one who might be a danger to us, then we will be on the right track to constructing a society that is tailored towards the well being of our species. At the moment, society cares only to distance us further and further from one another, and if we don't reverse this shit quick, I'm not sure we will ever be able to find our way back to one another.
Your friend's friend seems to have made the same mistake I have made far too often. Attempting to use their own weapons against them. Government is their baby, and thus it cannot be used to solve our problem, for it isn't government that is our problem, but the ones who gave us it. The only way we beat them is with our own tools, and at the risk of sounding like a hippy, our most powerful one has always been love. But perhaps we should start simple and aim for the absence of hatred.