Joe Rogan says people are drawn to "elevated threat levels," comparing it to media focus on "Joe Biden" and "Nuclear War"
Joe Rogan is a firm believer that most people are good, even if the news does not depict that to be true. Instead, Rogan attributes the general public's fascination with "threats" as the primary reason media coverage is majority negative.
As he explained to Alan Graham in episode 2181 of The Joe Rogan Experience, the podcast host felt that.
Rogan said:
"[People] gravitate so much to elevated threat levels that we concentrate on the bad people... The news just gets you freaked out about nuclear war [or] is that really [Joe] Biden or is that a guy in a Biden suit? Whatever it is, it's just more crazy things that get you freaked out. But the majority of your experiences with other people are pretty positive."
View Joe Rogan's comments at 29:48 from PowerfulJRE on YouTube below:
Rogan continued to explain that he believes humanity's survival instinct causes modern civilization to be "engineered to stay alive" and focus on threats.
Joe Rogan calls the news "us versus them"
After sharing his thoughts on the current state of the human mindset, Joe Rogan continued to discuss with Alan Graham how he felt the news influenced the current perspective most people have. Rogan called the current political stance of most people "us versus them" and blamed the news for that outcome.
Rogan said:
"The news today is so polarizing. It's us versus them inside our own country for the first time in my life. When I was a kid my parents were liberal [but] they never talked disparagingly about conservative people or Republicans... Now one side is absolutely sure they're right and the other is absolutely sure they're right. It's accentuated by everything we see."
As for his personal political views, Rogan still claims his independence but has stated that his parents' liberal views have shaped him to see the world similarly.