Joe Rogan and the New Paranoia

Until we better understand what paranoia and conspiracy theory look like in practice—rather than just in social media rhetoric—we'll keep missing additional signs of the virus now infecting the Right.

Introduction

A few days before the last time Joe Rogan got attention—again—for saying something ignorant, a video of a conversation between Rogan and far-right activist Jordan Peterson went viral among the population of Americans looking to infect their fellow Americans and then die rather than vaccinate themselves against a global pandemic.

If you watch…