The Joe Rogan Experience

Snapshot · The Joe Rogan Experience

#2518 - Tim Dillon

Explore episode Jun 24, 2026
Society & Culture
Gay marriage support down 11 points

#2518 - Tim Dillon · Jun 24, 2026

Support for gay marriage has dropped 11 percentage points, which Joe Rogan attributes to overreach and corporate virtue-signalling alienating people who were otherwise supportive.

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Technology, Impersonality, and the Anxiety Epidemic

At 53:13 · chapter starts 51:40

Dillon dates the inflection point to around 2014: before that, technology broadly improved life; after that, it became cold and impersonal. His touchstone is a McDonald's where there's no human at the counter, just a touchscreen and a nine-year-old having a breakdown about his McFlurry. Rogan adds the pressure of infinite opinions: the internet demands people have fully formed, correct views on every global atrocity at all times, and then feel guilty about having the wrong views. The old alternative — being very good at one thing in a local community, free from opinion-formation about distant horrors — is gone. Rogan's anxiety meter thought experiment is sharp: it would spike sharply with the internet's arrival and go near-vertical with social media.

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