Name: Joe Rogan on Navigating Life (from Joe Rogan Experience #345)
Uploaded: 2013-04-05T01:46:39.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan on Navigating Life (from Joe Rogan Experience #345)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2013-04-05. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan on Navigating Life (from Joe Rogan Experience #345)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2013-04-05. Transcript available.

What I was going to say is that when we were talking about needing some sort of
a lesson in how to think and how to operate the mind,
if the human mind, if the human body was just the human experience, if that was
an instrument that you had to learn to use,
think about navigating the human life with the human body and language and
think about if you came from somewhere else
and the human body wasn't – and the human experience wasn't just a person
living a life but rather was a ride that you had to figure out how to master,
how to accomplish and that the human animal with its creative abilities, with
its abilities to reach out to people,
with its ability to build buildings and use electricity and all these different
things.
That's a vehicle. That's what that is. Learn it. Learn how to use that vehicle.
You would have intensive study for years and years and years of just trying to
figure out how to go about the correct way of doing this.
It would be like – you would have to figure out what is the best way to think.
What is the best way – what most beneficial way to you to approach every
project as a person moving around in this human world with this human machine?
It would be like a super complicated thing.
But instead, it's just two people fucking – some guy shoots a load in the
girl.
She swells up. Plank.
A person comes out. No one knows shit.
It's a good sound effect, by the way.
Thank you.
So the three of them are standing there.
No one knows what the fuck is going on and they keep doing the same thing.
They keep interacting with each other the same thing.
The way the human – the way the human being and the human body interacts with
the world is so bizarre and complicated.
And to get it right and correct takes so much fucking thinking.
It's amazing.
And tutelage.
We just let these things just go loose out into the world.
Right.
You know, I mean –
Which is why people are desperate and lonely and forsaken and forgotten and all
that stuff.
Well, we're caught in this machine.
There's a real machine going on with society today.
And that machine is the building of society, the increasing of bandwidth, the
interconnectivity that's provided by technology.
It's all of that and it's all of that with this exponentially increasing
momentum behind it.
And we're all caught up in that.
And we're caught up in that and we have mortgages and we have bills and we have
all these.
But what we're doing is we're feeding this system.
We're feeding the system of televisions and computers and cell phones and new
clothes and –
It's distracting.
It's so distracting.
It's distracting from the real questions.
It's like you start unknowledgeable.
And the Greeks always said you go from knowledge but you don't jump all the way
to wisdom.
There's an in-between place which is correct opinion.
Correct opinion comes from when you study as you're reaching for wisdom, you
start to develop as the world crystallizes around you with the right teaching
and stuff.
You start to learn what sort of the correct way to look and reach and follow
and the correct opinion is.
And then you finally get to a point where you understand and can explain why
that is the correct opinion.
That takes a long fucking time.
That's life mastery in a way.
But it's like what you're saying.
It's – we don't have a system.
And we try to with public education.
But we don't have a way or a system to really teach people how to live the art
of living.
No.
No one knows what the fuck they're doing.
And we – the people that we were raised by, they didn't know what the fuck
they're doing either.
I mean my parents are very nice people.
My mother is with my stepdad.
They've been together forever.
It's like they're a very nice couple.
They're very nice people.
But they were raised by people who didn't know shit.
And their parents were raised by people who didn't know shit.
And this era that we're living in right now, it's like human beings are just
starting to wake up and realize that we were all living in this weird sort of
momentous world, this world that moves on momentum.
And momentum doesn't make any sense at all.
And we're all just waking up realizing that it was set up by people who didn't
know what the fuck they were doing.
I mean they knew how to build buildings.
They knew how to use electricity.
But no one knew how to teach society how to chill the fuck out, relax, and
enjoy each other.
Not one fucking person, besides like Martin Luther King and a few people with
some dreamy speeches, not one person emphasizes that in the role of government.
Not one person is pushing – like can't we figure out a way that human beings
are just nicer to each other?
Can't we figure out a way where there's maybe a little bit less profit but also
less pollution and less fucking with people and less control over the human
populace?
A lot of it I would say.
Isn't that possible?
I would say though you're also dealing with the residue of a – most of human
history, almost all of it, has been not enough to eat and dying of disease.
Yeah, no, it's no doubt there's been a lot of things that led us to this point.
Yeah, it's trauma.
But this is also the first point.
We have a responsibility as the human beings that have the first access to this
sort of information to not be looked at like a bunch of silly fucks by the
people of the future.
Because that's a real problem because if I look back, I mean living this life
right now, just looking at all the silly nonsense that human beings are
involved with.
Like everybody – I look on Twitter and everybody has these fucking equal
signs on their Twitter avatar to let everyone know that they're into marriage
equality.
It's equality.
It's marriage equality.
You should be – that's like saying – having that on your Twitter avatar,
you might as well just say water's wet.
Is hot hot?
Is cold cold?
Of course marriage equality makes sense.
The fact that you even have to – who are you talking to?
Like who – but this is – I know, but seriously, in 2013, anybody – we
should find out who doesn't have that on their avatar.
It should be that.
How about nobody use their face anymore?
And let's find out.
And the people who have a problem with it, who give a shit whether or not a
couple of lesbians want to marry each other, you're an asshole.
Right.
Like you're an asshole, and maybe nobody tells you you're an asshole, but why
do you give a fuck about them?
You worrying at all about what other people are doing sucks.
It sucks for everyone around you.
You fuck everything up.
You care that two people love each other and they want to sign some paperwork.
Why do you give a fuck?
Why do you give a fuck if she signed some paperwork that the other chick's
going to be her ass-eating slave till the end of time?
And she'll have to be reincarnated as a future ass-eater.
And upon turning 18, we'll resume her practice.
Because this chick's going to be immortal.
Write that on paper.
What fucking difference does it make?
Why do you care?
If you care, you're an asshole.
You're just an asshole.
I never understood it.
I never understood that.
It's fucking dumb.
It's the desire to control the people and impose your mythology or your belief
system on someone else.
It's some really uncreative fucks, too, who are not thinking about how
ridiculous you're going to look in the future.
When they're looking back on the past, the way they looked at those idiots that
thought that leeches were the best way to cure your broken leg, those fucking
people, we laugh at them today.
And don't tell me about scientific applications of leeches, you fucks, because
there's none.
I can just see you getting a bunch of those.
There's none.
I can just see you getting a bunch of those.
You stop it.
People are like, you know, there are medical applications for leeches.
Like, people sent me that because I was making fun of leeches.
No, aren't they using them for gangrene?
Yeah, you can use them for stuff, but guess what?
Medicine works better for almost everything.
They're using maggots.
They're using maggots.