Greg Gutfeld: Joe Rogan is widening the universe of ideas, media is shrinking it

FOX News.com ^ | February 8, 2022 | Greg Gutfield

[Kaslin]

Ever since this show began in the early 70s as a summer replacement for The Brady Bunch, we were on top of one trend: Cancel culture.

The idea being, if your past isn't adaptable to current standards, you would lose your friends, social status, Netflix password and career. You'd be shunned from polite society.

Its kindred spirit was wokeism, political correctness on more steroids than Lance Armstrong, which allowed no forgiveness relating not just to your past actions, but to who you are.

Generally, it's things that can't be changed, like your race or Pete Davidson's bedsheets.

In the world of the woke, you're either oppressed or the oppressor, and the offenses only flow in one direction.

Suddenly, we no longer measure anyone by achievement, but by victim status, which creates a new kind of segregation that's now spreading like omicron in the Olympic Village.

I call it idea segregation, IN that we cannot share our knowledge, wisdom or ideas if we're not of the same tribe.

Now we see this with crime. This show has been blaring about rising crime, like the alarm at a broken Nordstrom's window, but the people who need to hear it won't listen because it's coming from us. It's the Fox crying wolf.

They'd rather drown in raw sewage than grab a life preserver from us meetings. And I get it.

It affects all issues, from the border to crime to COVID. It's a division of ideas, and none shall mix.

Now, imagine if this kind of thing existed before we had a chance to make things.

Did you ever wonder about how a pencil is made? Milton Friedman has. I certainly hope we have some grainy footage of him lying around.

[4Liberty]

[griswold3]

Can’t let the exchange of ideas lead to the truth.