Joe Rogan is the embodiment of the death of expertise.

The idea that everyone's opinion is equally valid despite things like, knowledge, education and proficiency with the subject matter is literally deadly.

It's literally the flip side of the Argument from Authority fallacy

MZWH Absurdistwords Matt Largey (real) Mischaracterizations aside, yes that’s how it works.

MZWH Absurdistwords Matt Largey (real) I feel like there’s a link between conservative toxic masculinity being hostile to the scientific method because it requires admitting you were wrong as part of the iterative process.

koush MZWH Absurdistwords Matt Largey (real) I agree w koush . This goes to some profound places: brittle narcissism that’s unable to admit limited knowledge, and some infantile rage at the grownups (authorities) for NOT being omniscient and omnipotent: “if they are not perfectly right all the time, they are nothing”.