Joe Rogan Experience #1732 - Ben Shapiro

California described as criminal communist state

California allows mentally ill homeless on streets as civil right

LA district attorney potentially hired by China to ruin city

Chicago prosecutors released gang members citing mutual combat

Democratic prosecutors criminally incompetent, driving Republican conversion

De Blasio described as worst and incompetent mayor

Lori Lightfoot's interview policy characterized as racist

Sarcastic claim about CNN's fairness and truthfulness

Media deliberately mischaracterized ivermectin use as horse dewormer

Cenk Uygur characterized as lifelong fighter

Two types of people divided by risk tolerance and government trust

Vaccine risk to children below minimal, no intention to vaccinate kids

Some people want permanent masking and blame unvaccinated for deaths

Vaccinated people angry at unvaccinated for not taking vaccine risk

Keith Olbermann characterized as unhinged maniac

COVID-fearful people live sheltered lives and overestimate risk

Media lied about COVID death risk to control population

Health authorities refuse to admit mistakes and claim to be science

Government told people to stay inside and avoid sun during pandemic

Lab leak theory accepted only after Trump left office

Biden adopted DeSantis's monoclonal antibody position

Biden administration restricted monoclonal antibodies to push vaccines

Federal government punished Florida by controlling monoclonal antibody supply

COVID vaccine is gene therapy, definition changed to call it vaccine

No long-term vaccine safety data, FDA drugs frequently recalled

Vioxx caused stroke in young person, similar to vaccine risks

President Biden's vaccine injection administered incorrectly

Joe Biden characterized as dead or zombie

Camilla Parker Bowles claimed to discuss Biden farting

Biden has serious cognitive problems, cannot speak properly

Biden intermittently lucid, possibly on Adderall

Kamala Harris has 28% approval, hidden away, cackles randomly

Kamala Harris less charming than Hillary Clinton

Democratic ticket will be Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg

Media will call opponents of Harris-Buttigieg ticket anti-gay and anti-black

Replacing Harris with Buttigieg would supplant black woman

Buttigieg would rank higher if he were trans

Math is racist, two plus two equals five

Kamala Harris might be abducted by UFOs, should be terrified

Booster will make Harris sick and disappear for 10 days

Biden elected with mandate to be dead and not radical

Biden's mandate was to be not Trump and barely alive

Kamala Harris attacked Biden as racist, now supports him

Harris believed Biden's accuser, now ignores it as VP

Sarcasm: should trust politicians with all life decisions

Politicians expect voters to forget recent conflicts

Democrats lost media control, legacy media no longer impactful

New media outlets discuss real facts nonpartisanly

Government cannot solve problems, should leave people alone

Some people want government as father figure

British polls show majority wants permanent masks

British people not wearing masks despite poll results

People's stated beliefs don't match their actions

Democratic mayors enforce masks on children but not themselves

Forcing child vaccination is insane money-making scheme

People suppress data that contradicts their beliefs

Group suppresses alternative viewpoints through deplatforming

Tech companies nonchalantly suppress conservative voices

Woke corporations arbitrarily censor and shadow ban people

Media blamed Russian disinformation for Trump's 2016 win

Russian disinformation didn't shift 2016 election

Definition of misinformation changed to suppress inconvenient truths

Social media bans lab leak theory, then allows it when convenient

Treatments labeled misinformation when inconvenient to narrative

Forcing single viewpoint won't rebuild social capital

CNN lied about ivermectin, many people still believe it

Legacy media demonizes opposing views, independent media allows free speech

Legacy media orchestrated Spotify employee protests

Legacy media amplifies outrage for clicks, changes headlines

Legacy media wants to regulate podcasts to eliminate competition

New York Times lists right-wing content to pressure Facebook

Legacy media wants monopoly on approved information sources

Legacy media journalists leaving for independence

University of Austin provides alternative to propagandistic education

California residents identify with federal government, not state

California government more intrusive than federal government

LA mayor shut down restaurants and comedy clubs

LA government closed beaches and filled skate parks with sand

Ideological sorting: people leaving blue states for red states

California and New York losing population and congressional seats

California residents not allowed to complain about homelessness

Renaming homeless to unhoused obscures public health crisis

ACLU prevented removal of homeless people's property from streets

Homeless person ingeniously tapped into street light for electricity

Homeless person should use innovation to get off streets

Welding jobs available for homeless people

Homeless have mental health issues, no one discusses it

California should involuntarily commit dangerous homeless people

California spends on trains instead of courts for homeless

California bullet train duplicates I-5 highway route

Gavin Newsom reversed position on bullet train

Liberal mothers upset their sons follow Ben Shapiro

Shapiro tells young men to marry and work, mothers object

Shapiro and Peterson both tell young men to get their act together

Peterson: better to speak to disaffected males than ignore them

Society discourages male responsibility as toxic masculinity

Young men should be providers and protectors, people object

Focusing on individual identity is bad way to live

Human identity based on accomplishments, not feelings

Society prioritizes feelings over objective reality

Objective reality is harsh, no utopian solutions exist

Denying self-indulgence creates entitled people

Society equates discipline with cruelty, but discipline equals freedom

Discipline and hard work are part of being actualized human

People want validation without effort

Effort inequality exists alongside income inequality

Marriage and children are biggest personal life risks

Most wealthy Americans not born rich, low inherited wealth

Bezos and Gates not born wealthy, unlike Trump

Shapiro grew up lower middle class with three sisters

Rogan's family was poor, on welfare and food stamps

Hard work and innovation matter more than luck

Critics say meritocracy undermines communal values

Sandel argues wealthy use meritocracy to justify ruling society

Wealthy control rules, creating oligarchy not meritocracy

Meritocracy term coined to mock idea of intelligent ruling

Skillsocracy rewards skills, meritocracy claims moral superiority

Intelligence not earned, affects success more than hard work

High IQ people without motivation fail

Inborn qualities like height determine some outcomes

Reward hard work and innovation, but separate moral component

Ruthless competition abandons community and compassion

Left fears meritocracy and business success

Meritocracy and community values not mutually exclusive

Meritocracy compatible with moral rewards of honor

Good people measured by funeral attendance, not wealth

Monetary success system not wrong despite inequality

Human value measured by money and how you treat people

Corporations obsess on growth, diffusing responsibility

Money obsession ignores community and employee happiness

Spiritual problems addressed with money instead of spirituality

Religion traditionally drives social cohesion

Shapiro refuses work to observe Sabbath

Shapiro prioritizes family and community social capital

Sabbath observance prohibits electricity use

Society must disconnect from technology or be consumed by metaverse

Meta's metaverse crazy idea, algorithms sow distrust and hate

Meta CEO will control what people see and feel in metaverse

Metaverse will happen, pandemic accelerated virtual world adoption

Children spending entire lives on screens, screens becoming human-like

Virtual reality offers escape from real world

Virtual reality will be indistinguishable from reality in 20 years

AI improving at imitating humans and innovating

Haptic suits and sports games approaching reality

Technology innovation may lead to civilization's extinction

Virtual reality generation won't reproduce, civilization collapses

Only religious groups will reproduce, others extinct

Power grid collapse would destroy virtual reality civilization

China banning virtual reality while West adopts it

China restricts youth internet, West exploits human vulnerabilities

Pandemic showed how easily people can be conditioned

People accepted pandemic restrictions longer than expected

Pandemic bred dependency through lockdowns

Technology exploits human brain, creates civilization vulnerability

Experience machine thought experiment: would you plug in?

If everyone in virtual reality, you're left out if you don't join

Virtual reality will be too addictive to stop

People addicted to Instagram despite minimal dopamine hit

Elite creating metaverse but keeping their own kids out

Jobs and Shapiro restrict children's technology access

Shapiro's children will do drugs and turn tricks without internet

Elites promote technologies they don't use themselves

European lockdown protests get little media coverage

Media suppresses European protest coverage despite news value

Media works with government, follows orders

Italy shutting off protest cameras or using old footage

Australia criminalizes protests, mandates vaccination for work

Shapiro's company sued Biden over vaccine mandate

Fifth Circuit found grave constitutional issues with vaccine mandate

Biden doesn't care about vaccine mandate, like eviction moratorium

Vaccine mandate timing shows it's not real emergency

Emergency standard requires immediate implementation

Federal government lacks OSHA power for vaccine mandate

States have more power than federal government on health

States have broad power, courts use rational basis review

Children have low COVID mortality, all deaths in unhealthy children

Only 10-20 healthy children died of COVID in entire pandemic

Government pushing child vaccination despite low risk

Government incentivized crackdowns and mandates, not bribery

Blue areas more scared of COVID, easier for politicians to mandate

Scared constituents demand mandates, politicians comply

Red area politicians brave to reject mandates

Media praised Cuomo, demonized DeSantis, but DeSantis was right

Lockdowns easy for politicians, blame citizens if deaths occur

DeSantis's plan to protect elderly and vulnerable criticized

DeSantis's approach matched actual virus risk

Vaccine developed faster than expected, Shapiro supports it

Without vaccine, should protect elderly, let young get natural immunity

Zoom teaching would leave children unsupervised

School closures prevented parents from working

Zoom teachers lazy, not engaging with students

Many teachers lazy, taught in pajamas, resisted returning

Sweden's age-based approach was rational, US forbade it

Treating all ages same for COVID is absurd

Age and health risk factors known early in pandemic

Media shows anecdotal stories of young unvaccinated COVID deaths

Media ignores Shapiro's quick recovery from COVID

Media stopped covering Shapiro's recovery, focused on ivermectin

Media treats COVID like pagan god, denies care to unvaccinated

Obesity as avoidable as vaccine refusal, but unpopular to say

Obesity avoidable, shouldn't deny care like unvaccinated

Vaccine mandate logic only applied to disapproved activities

Vaccines don't work as advertised, breakthrough cases common

Vaccines effective at preventing death, but other factors ignored

Politicians won't tell people to lose weight, unpopular message

Government providing everything destroys incentive structures

Pandemic unemployment benefits discouraged work

Ending unemployment benefits brought workers back

Paying people to stay home keeps them home

Hard work and difficulty good for mental health

Duty and obligation make people stronger, eliminating problems doesn't help

Inheritance not inherently bad, artists should get real jobs

De Blasio's arts video was insane, worst music and dance

De Blasio's arts video drove people to Florida

De Blasio eliminating magnet schools for racial proportionality

Adams will fix NYC by bringing back police and cleaning streets

De Blasio strange and disconnected

De Blasio used progressive language but failed

California eliminating objective math standards and gifted programs

Eliminating gifted programs because too many Asian students

Eliminating math standards because of racial disparity is racist

Testing is only way to know if students learned

College is scam to avoid using test scores

Eliminating tests doesn't make things more equitable

Eliminating test data increases discrimination through stereotyping

More police reduces crime and brutality, defunding increases both

Single motherhood major problem, father presence in neighborhood matters

Asian students succeed through cultural emphasis on studying

Korean friend Jungsik worked extremely hard as medical student

Korean father demanded perfection, no B grades allowed

Asian immigrant families value education, schools discriminate against them

Discrimination against Asian students is racist

Schools limit Asian admissions because they're too successful

Schools use non-score factors to limit Asian admissions

Women overrepresented in degrees, but no calls for equity

Women get more degrees because they work harder, not smarter

Women make different career choices, take time off for kids

Wage gap statistic misleading, doesn't account for job differences

Obama knew wage gap statistic was misleading

Wage gap ignores job choice differences

Peterson challenges feminist on male privilege

Women choose different jobs than men, not discrimination

Society overvalues money as success metric

Women choose personal interaction jobs, society devalues them

Redistributing income doesn't fix inequality, that's communism

Push toward communism ignores effort inequality

Capitalism rewards innovation with positive externalities

Stock market speculation generates wealth without creating value

Stock market enables company funding despite speculation

Speculators are grease in economic engine

Stock market speculation enables capital allocation

Imperfect capitalism better than perfect alternative

Bernie Sanders proposes small tax on stock transactions

Transaction tax adds friction to economic engine

Democratic socialists use slippery slope with small taxes

Too many people going to college, free college bad idea

Private loans should fund college, not government

Student loans saddle young people with lifelong debt

28% of degree holders worse off financially than without degree

Many degree holders could have succeeded without degree

Many jobs require degree but don't need it

SAT scores predict job performance better than college degree

Colleges indoctrinate communists instead of educating

Apprenticeship programs better than college

Colleges no longer question ideas, just provide degrees

College graduates with liberal arts degrees not useful

Most colleges are diploma mills, not education

Education no longer valued for expanding understanding

Liberal colleges don't present conservative viewpoints

Shapiro conservative from religious Jewish household

Campus support for Palestine increased, Israel blamed for success

Hamas government controls Gaza Strip

Hamas and Palestinian Authority haven't held elections since 2005-2006

Shapiro made 45-minute video on Israel history

Iron Dome defensive technology, thank God for it

Iron Dome prevents Israeli retaliation, US would invade Mexico

AOC opposed Iron Dome funding, wants rockets to hit Israeli cities

Israel should have more firepower than Hamas

AOC uneducated on Israel-Palestine but has strong opinions

Hard left sees power imbalance as proof of injustice

Israel withdrew from Gaza, Palestinians control Area A

20% of Israel Arab, zero Jews in Palestinian territories

Palestinians can apply to emigrate to Israel with security checks

Israeli settlers in disputed territories, government removes some

Sheikh Jarrah dispute triggered Gaza War

Abbas canceled election, created Temple Mount controversy to distract

Israel accused of genocide, but Palestinian population increased

Hamas administers Gaza, not Israel

Palestinians restricted from immigrating due to security concerns

Hamas charter calls for destruction of Israel

Mainstream narrative: Israel oppresses Palestinians, Hamas is response

Israel offered peace deals, Palestinians rejected them

Palestinian Authority and Hamas want all of Israel

Americans care about Israel-Palestine but don't understand it

Israel has Arab citizens and judges, Gaza treats gays like Iran

Rogan wants to debate Israel-Palestine with Shapiro

Rogan jokes about Jews trying to get him to Israel

Shapiro writes one book per year, wrote novel while bored

Shapiro constantly reads and writes for his show