The Roganification of the Male Mystique
"…and then, something shifted.

The guests were still there. The laughs, the tangents about elk meat. But the edge dulled. The signal looped. The same conversations circled the drain: testosterone aesthetics, identity paranoia, performative self-discipline.

Anyone paying attention could see it: #Rogan wasn’t platforming curiosity anymore. He was engineering a vibe. The show hardened into a kind of #maleidentity project: the rituals of questioning replaced by a reassuring #mythology about what it means to be a #man in a collapsing empire."
#JoeRogan
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-roganification-of-the-male-mystique/?ref=the-westenberg-letter-newsletter

The Roganification of the Male Mystique

Joe Rogan changed. Not all at once. Not in some catastrophic fall from grace. But gradually — the way signals turn to noise when the frequency gets stuck. And now, millions of men are trying to survive a collapsing world by bulking up their biceps and shrinking their imaginations. I saw

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