Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Joe Rogan Experience #1479 - David Pakman" video.

  1. There's always a tension between the collective and the individual. Pakman fosters the illusion that all we need is a sufficiently competent, ethical, and enlightened leadership telling the collective what to do and allocate resources on the collective's behalf, for the benefit of all individuals. The trouble is, you rarely get competent, ethical and enlightened leadership. And it's always the duds who want the most control, just the like the worst driver in the room wants to show you how good their reflexes are out on the road. See? We're DRAFTING! Great fuel efficiency! *CRASH*. Everything would've been fine if that asshole in front of me hadn't slammed the brakes. It's that other guy's fault. Pakman's totally shilling for Democrats. So Trump's not a great speaker. He gets his point across. And if you watch him fence with hostile reporters (like Obama never did) off the cuff, he comes off better, thinking on his feet than any of the Democrat candidates. And no, you're not going to explain away how out of it Joe Biden is by micro-analyzing Trump's body language. I'm about 30 minutes in, and all I'm hearing are Democrat talking points. Give it up. Join Jimmy Dore, who's at least honest about what he sees in a very common-sensical way. He's a hopeless lefty, but he's not makin' shit up to fit his narrative. And I bet he can find 100s of Democrat 'experts' who'll spin you all the things that are wrong with Trump. Use your eyes and your brain and not your hopes and wishes, dude.
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  2. I've always kind of thought guys with man-buns were a bit 'off.' Not quite sure what they're going for. It's one thing when a Parkour or martial artist do one for movement (and defense) purposes, but just sitting there, talking to people? So they just LIKE wearing all that long hair like a tight-ass all day. I mean, sure. The grill man at McDonald's wears a bun at work, because he HAS to. But YOU don't have to. So it's a LOOK you're going for. You did that to yourself on PURPOSE! You don't even have the excuse of "It's too long to hang down and it's too short to tie back," and even then, it'd take 2 or 3 man buns to tie it all up, because it's too short to tie up in one knot. And that's only in the transitional stage, where most guys just wear a ball cap all the time You went the extra mile and made a man bun, on PURPOSE. Add talking like a soy simp and I start thinking you're doing it for chicks, in a sick, "I get pussy by pretending I'm a total feminist" kind of way, which I kinda despise. Always gotta be the center of attention. Always simping and white-knighting. Ugh. As far as qualifying what you say, rather than just being yourself, that's actually pretty important. Not everybody can read your mind, or understand what you're really getting at. I've always been a bit of a brainiac, and it caused me a lot of problems with people who weren't. They weren't any stupider than me, but they weren't educated the same way I was. And their intelligence was bent more towards practical matters and social skills, where I've always been a bit of a social retard, due to my unique circumstances and heredity. When I was an undergrad, I ran in a lot of rougher circles, mainly due to recreational drugs. I had quite a few conversations that went south, because the guys I was talking to didn't understand all my 60-dollar words. I was never a joke-writer, but always looking for the setup that I could knock down. Some of the cleverest things I've said were taken as insults by the people who should've been flattered and laughed along with me. But they didn't get the reference, and thought I was putting them down by talking over their heads. But I still liked guys like them more than the guys I had to be around in my classes. Over time, I learned how to fit in. By the time I was in grad school, guys would tell me "You ain't like those other eggheads. What you say makes sense." Part of higher intelligence is not speaking your mind, but speaking to your audience. And I don't mean putting on a Southern accent to try to score points at the NAACP convention. Just plain speech. I'm doing just what Joe Rogan was talking about when he discussed the comments section and how invested people are. I don't look at it that way. Sure, there's a lot of "Joe, when you said such-and-such..." directed right at the channel operator, but REALLY, this is a lot of people expressing themselves freely. Some are kooks. I know I'm a kook. My excuse is being laid-up a lot of the time, and not all that mobile when I AIN'T laid-up. We're none of us really talking to YOU, Joe, because we know you're off to the next interview, and don't waste time and energy on the crazy comments section. We're really talking to each other, having a conversation about your conversation. This medium isn't JUST you, Joe. It's also a lot of people, and a lot of people GROWING before our eyes. I write to learn and to tear apart my ideas, refine my ideas, refine how I EXPRESS my ideas. There's a lot of learning taking place in these comment sections, in unexpected ways. The way I think of it is how dumb I think the average incoming college student was 40 years ago, when I left high school. Nowadays, most incoming college freshmen are dumber and less self-reliant (unbelievable how many academic advisers schools have, nowadays!). But go one layer underneath THAT, and the guys who do NOT go to college are hella SMARTER than the same kinds of guys were 40 years ago. We're talking blue-collar workers communicating through the written word on a daily basis, and pickin' up all KINDS of shit along the way. It only SEEMS bad, because the dumbest of us are also the most talkative, and learning new stuff while ruining everyone else's conversations, because they're dumb-asses. I'm here to tell you that 40 years ago, their equivalent couldn't write at all. The high bar is lower, but the low bar is a lot higher. And people are clearing the high bar almost by accident just by getting curious about things and having an Internet connection. It's happening all around us. A lot of people know a lot of things, these days. You'd be surprised.
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