Feet of clay or shrewd man of Kommerz. Welcome to the Brave New World, you can never leave. http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/joe-rogan-apologizes-amid-spotify-vaccine-controversy/297926 Hours after Spotify said in a statement that it would modify its content policies - which Joe Rogan did not violate, the company clarified - and adopt a "content advisory" for certain podcast episodes in an effort to placate the snowflakes, Joe Rogan finally broke his silence on the uproar over his podcast in a 10-minute video shared to Instagram.
In the video, a kind of frank confessional apparently shot by Rogan himself using his own phone, Rogan apologized to those he had unwittingly offended, before launching into a poignant, carefully crafted explanation that gently nudged and reminded objectors about why Rogan's show is a must-listen, and a leader in the modern-day podcast gold rush.
Consider that Spotify has determined it is the Arbiter of Absolute Truth. Following of course the Established Agreements of the Establishment. If for example you dare deny Virology you violate TOS. If you dare to deny HIV violate TOS. If you dare say Covid-19 is pure Fraud you violate TOS. If Joe had a guest who said the following he violates the TOS. Hmmm... so this coronavirus with a 99% percent survival rate can only be defeated by:
The media no longer asking questions and doing journalism, and instead becoming the mouthpieces of the government
Washed up formerly rebellious artists and musicians making demands that everyone now needs to agree with 'the man'
The consolidation of state and corporate power
The strip-mining of personal liberties
The mandating of masks, social distancing, and stay at home orders
The outlawing of criticism of public health officials, big pharma, and uncensored speech
The deification of science, and the persecution of anyone debating or questioning it
The proliferation of contact tracing digging into the communications, associations, and actions of all Americans
The destruction of the world’s economy, supply chains, and work ethic
And the repeated forced injections of untested gene expression modifying concoctions into the arms of every person on the planet?
Berdyaev: What does the word bourgeois actually mean? It has remained unexplained, though it has been so much used and so often misapplied. Even when superficially used it is a word with a magic power of its own, and its depth has to be fathomed. The word designates a spiritual state, a direction of the soul, a peculiar consciousness of beings. It is neither a social nor an economic condition, yet it is something more than a psychological and ethical one—it is spiritual, ontological. In the very depths of his being, or nonbeing, the bourgeois is distinguishable from the not bourgeois; he is a man of a particular spirit, or particular soullessness. The state of being bourgeois has always existed in the world, and its immortal image is for ever fixed in the gospels with its equally immortal antithesis, but in the nineteenth century it attained its climaxjmd ruled supreme. Though the middle-class society of the last century is so spoken of in the superficial social-economic significance of the term, it is bourgeois in a deeper and more spiritual sense. This middle-class mentality ripened and enslaved human society and culture at the summit of their civilization. Its concupiscence is no longer restricted by man’s supernatural beliefs as it was past epochs, it is no longer kept in bounds by the sacred symbolism of a nobler traditional culture; the bourgeois spirit emancipated itself, expanded, and was at last able to express its own type of life. But even when the triumph of mediocrity was complete a few deep thinkers denounced it with uncompromising power: Carlyle, Nietzsche, Ibsen, Leon Bloy, Dostoievsky, Leontiev—all foresaw the victory of the bourgeois spirit over a truly great culture, on the ruins of which it would establish its own hideous kingdom.
Bunch of Karen's in today's parlance.
Rogan is not the sharpest of lead pencils and he is a Bernie Sanders liberal. He apprehends cash flow. He grasps his audience is significantly greater than legacy media. Controversy is good for business. He doesn't mind at all having this tempest in a tea pot. On Neil Young and Joni Mitchell’s departure from Spotify, Rogan added: “I’m very sorry that they feel that way. I most certainly don’t want that. I’m a Neil Young fan, I’ve always have been a Neil Young fan.”
Addressing Spotify directly, Rogan concluded: “I’m not trying to be controversial. I’m going to do my best in the future to balance things out…If I pissed you off, I’m sorry.”