Populist Media's Casual Normalisation

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Against the Tyranny of Opinionated Ignorance

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Recent disagreement on The Joe Rogan Experience has exposed a problem with the populist media ecosystem: the casual normalisation and celebration of opinions untethered to knowledge.

I offer eight brief reflections on this trend and its hazards.

Albert Camus taught us that rebellion must be bound by ethics.

By speaking without adequate preparation on matters of life and death, guests like Smith cheapen the value of discourse.

Jacques Zylberberg argued that a speaker acquires moral weight when their words reach an audience.

The allure of uninformed opinion lies in its convenience, replacing competence with confidence, and inquiry with assertion.

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