Yea...
I feel like he gained a tremendous ego over the years as his audience kept growing. He's not nearly as intelligent as he thinks he is and he often pretends to be the authority on subjects he knows little about. He's a pseudo-intellectual in the purest sense.
Bill Maher has gotten like this lately as well....
When you learn how deep Rogan is into
meditation, mysticism, the occult and esoteric, the psychedelic world
It's actually quite the opposite.
Rogan is vastly more intelligent than most people think he is
Or even that he himself let's on
He plays the role of the fool or jester of sorts, intentionally dumbing himself down for his audience. However, when he comes out of that shell, particularly with specific guests, it becomes clear just how much he actually knows.
Many influencers do this as well. They play dumb, but they're the furthest thing from it. It makes you more relatable to the general audience.
He has specific areas of expertise like nutrition, health, comedy, martial arts, but he's very adept in a vast array of different fields, even if he's not necessarily an expert in them. What's impressive is mostly his adaptability and sheer versatility, which is often only possible with an incredibly open mind that is relatively free of biases.
I wouldn't call him an intellectual. So, to call him a psuedo intellectual is disingenuous and misguided. He is quite adept at critical thinking though, I'd say his intellectual capacity is serviceable, but his intelligence is mostly coming from a wider array of characteristics than any one thing. He has a lot of wisdom and intuitive intelligence, while also being world class at understanding social intelligence and psychology.
I always believe how Rogan is viewed to be a reasonable intelligence test. The smarter you are, the more intelligent you realize he is. It's almost always the dumbest people who say stuff like you and genuinely believe he's an idiot. This is the lowest common denominator of knowledge and public consciousness.
Because his knowledge is so varied across a wide array of fields, it requires a similar level of diversity and depth to actually see and understand where he's adept.
Most people don't even have casual levels of knowledge in the vast majority of these topics, so there's only so much they can even see, hence why he's such a good intelligence test.
A lot of people like yourself simply repeat what others have told you, rather than any serious analysis or independent thought of your own and unfortunately these surface level perceptions become a mindless hive mind of sorts.
This same energy is responsible for most of the bad analysis that dominates most sports.
