rant · moment 7 of 18
Eric Weinstein, Lex Fridman, and Everyone Becoming a Guru
from #238 - Keep Your Mouth Shut | The Tim Dillon Show · #238
11 min
Tim explains a joke he made about Eric Weinstein and Lex Fridman getting bogged down in the trans discourse, then expands into a broader rant about how everyone online now claims expert-level authority on every possible issue, and about the hypocrisy of people who champion free speech and comedy only until it's aimed at them.
- Tim made a joke about Eric Weinstein and Lex Fridman on Patreon, questioning what they've actually accomplished despite being smart.
- Why does everyone now become a guru and jump out of their lane to become an expert on every issue?
- Tim describes people deciding overnight they have the answer to whatever problem comes up—race, gender, vaccines, war, religion.
- YouTube's premise: I figured it out and everyone else who studied this is a bad-faith actor, hack, shill, or liar.
- People who defend comedy against the PC police get angry when you make jokes about them instead.
- The backlash to wokeness is becoming as sanctimonious and boring as the woke people themselves.
- Someone accused Tim of giving ammunition to the other side by making fun of people he agrees with.
- That's the exact same argument the left used—you can't joke about this because you're giving ammunition to the bad people.
- Tech people and successful folks love roasting, but roasting is mostly stupid and formulaic compared to real comedy.
- Tim doesn't want five hours of debate on a podcast with people he's skeptical of, especially those who level accusations while exhibiting the same behavior.
- Either comedy doesn't matter and you take what you want from it, or it's an important social force—pick one, can't be both.