Miley Cyrus, RuPaul, Joe Rogan, And Oprah

This Is NOT A Comforting Cultural Line-Up If You've Ever Been Sexually Molested

According to Newsweek “A video clip of Miley Cyrus taking a playful swipe at Joe Rogan after he made a comment about RuPaul's Drag Race almost 4 years ago has gone viral on social media.” Yes, this is the first thing the Google algorithm is delivering to my front door. It knows me so well.

Instead, it provides me with as good a place as any to pontificate on why I withdraw from society, don't listen to Miley Cyrus’ views (or music), or trust Joe Rogan, and definitely don't have any feelings for whatever is supposed to be happening on “social media.” Let’s take those in reverse:

I released a song back in 2000 called Babylon.com, expressing my disgust with what was happening to life in the digital age, and I haven't had much reason to change my mind, since then. Whatever’s happening on “social media” today, it's not the intellect that was promised to us when the Internet first became a phenomena in the late 90s. It's some bullshit arguments, with a lot of catty aspects to them, that totally obliterate the idea of anybody learning anything. Much more dangerous, than disgusting, now. Much more cultish than community. The media betrays us by following the behavior of “social media” without skepticism.

The emergence of the Joe Rogan Experience did not surprise me. What he’s become,…hasn’t really, either. Rogan started his comedy career by calling himself an “idiot,” so the only surprise isn’t why he forgot that, but why the media doesn’t recognize it yet.

He’s the new Oprah. When Ron White was on his show, and going on about his yogi’s “breathing exercises,” did Joe tell him his yogi's full of shit? No. He was no more serviceable than Oprah hosting Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey on vaccines in 2008. Joe Rogan can usually be trusted to offer no more pushback than Oprah does to cranks and quack ideas. He doesn’t even know how. When he held his recent archaeological debate, and Graham Hancock kept saying, “We need more research,” Joe didn't recognize that as the usual preserve of the scoundrel, trying to buy a license to keep his grift going. He accepted it, even though the evidence against Hancock is already clear.

At this point, even the debate about Joe Rogan and Ivermectin reminds me of Oprah’s fight with the beef industry, if only because that got us Dr. Phil, who - coming full circle - is now also a guest on the Joe Rogan Experience.

"I'll go to church with anyone who's willing to smoke pot and look through a telescope with me." - Joe Rogan

I avoid church, myself. That’s the funny thing about atheists. We don’t see the attraction. (Neal Brennan thinks atheists make “Vision Boards.” Can you imagine Richard Dawkins with a “Vision Board”? You’re confused, Neal,…). In a time when we don’t have journalism working for us, avoidance is a much safer bet than trying to conform, when these fools are, literally, everywhere.

Oprah - supposedly a journalist - turned her show into an “electronic church,” and now Miley Cyrus was in Joe Rogan’s cathedral, declaring RuPaul as her “God” (Cyrus, being a Christian heretic, is perpetually acting out in exactly the manner Christians envision from The Ten Commandments by Cecil B. DeMille) basically, continuing her starring role as a religious cliché, who keeps the creeps online applauding. Way. To. Go. Girl.

As someone who grew up in foster homes, so is familiar with how sexual predation and gay culture have existed, within the larger culture, over many decades - but not claiming they're the same thing - I still can't be as uncritical as Miley. (I also don't feel compelled to expose myself sexually, as she does, strange as that may seem.) I know - for a fact - a big part of this new, authoritarian gay culture is built upon lies gays have told since the killing of Harvey Milk, so the idea that Miley should trust anyone in the movement - much less accept them as somehow divine - is just delusional.

I can only sum up my feelings, with my background, by saying - at the ripe ol’ age of 63 - I prefer to see us learning from nature, not emulating it. Space flight, for instance, is better than the ritualized sniffing of each other’s asses. Somehow, atheism leads to one and religion to the other. That’s my life’s experience.

Jim Jeffries has a great bit about atheists, using the metaphor of a train, and how believers slow our society down. Miley Cyrus, replacing the Christian God with RuPaul, is making no personal advancement, nor is she helping America grasp reality. She was merely adding her own little bit of Plaster of Paris to the current propaganda, oppressing everything under the weight of such deceit, much like the heavy make-up drag queens wear. And that she so admires. Joe Rogan should’ve known enough to tell her so and shut-up that nasty “social media” chatter. They're not helping. They’re just cultists, laying down ethical traps like Russian dolls, which is enough to make anyone “aware” reluctant to go outside, meet anyone new, or just engage with others.

And the Google algorithm should've known that I would feel this way. Or, maybe it did, and someone wants to keep me inside. I don’t know.

A few days ago my banker told me she believes “everything happens for a reason.”

That’s already enough self-delusion right there, entering my life, to chill me to my bones for a week.