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The Conspirituality Report
Conspirituality Will Never End
Garbage platforms are as infinite as integrity and resilience are precious
When I saw Joe Rogan’s grey face under the headline announcing he’d contracted COVID, I didn’t have to click through to know what he was going to say, or imply.
So I didn’t. But from credible reports I take it it went basically like this:
Rona’s a doozy, bros. I’m taking alternative remedies. Vaccines aren’t my jam. I’m going to keep doing my thing. All that healthy living is paying off now. I’m not an expert, but nobody is, really. I love my freedom.
What else would he say? He’s got a hundred million reasons from Spotify for never having to doubt himself. When it comes to COVID, his vaccine skepticism, and his parade of Ivermectin-hawking guests, he is literally paid to parasitize and existential crisis, and convert it into jokey, bro-science content that degrades public health.
“Degrades” is a little mild, to be honest. It’s more like hijacking the enormous ship of public health to carry him, his besties — and vicariously, his listeners —to an all-inclusive alt-health resort on a private bro island.
It’s a ship that carries centuries of infrastructure and stores of social capital in the hold. It was built in messy and…
