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5 min readThe Death of Trust: How Power Rewrites History
Chris Williamson’s return visit to the Joe Rogan Experience quickly lands on a disturbing pattern: once someone dies, anyone can say anything about them, and there’s almost no recourse. Williamson opens by gifting Rogan a copy of Albert Goldman’s biography of Lenny Bruce—a book Goldman inscribed to Yoko Ono as a way of infiltrating the John Lennon camp before writing The Lives of John Lennon, a posthumous portrait that painted Lennon as a wife-beater who frequented male prostitutes in Thailand. The problem, as Rogan and Williamson see it, isn’t just that the dead can’t defend themselves. It’s that the accusation always feels more substantial than the defense, because the accuser has “done original research” while the defense is dismissed as hearsay.
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- 2 (01:57) **Book Gift and the Ethics of Posthumous Biography** - Chris gifts Joe a Lenny Bruce biography by Albert Goldman, sparking a discussion about writing unflattering biographies of dead people who can't defend themselves.
- 3 (09:34) **The Nixon Watergate Conspiracy** - Joe recounts Tucker Carlson's theory that Nixon was removed by intelligence agencies because he planned to expose the JFK assassination cover-up.
- 4 (19:46) **Information Overload as a Weapon** - Joe and Chris discuss how the modern flood of information is designed to create nihilism and hopelessness rather than to convince people of any single narrative.
- 5 (24:40) **Fixing Disinformation Through Incentives** - The conversation shifts to how Elon Musk's X platform is addressing fake content by removing financial incentives for it.
- 6 (29:43) **UK Asylum Seeker Booklet and Immigration Policy** - Chris highlights the absurdity of the UK Home Office issuing a nine-page booklet to asylum seekers explaining that women have equal rights and consent is required for sex.
- 7 (38:37) **Political Corruption and the Death of Wokeness** - Joe argues that both political parties are run by grifters maximizing personal wealth, and that the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk killed "woke 1.0."
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Chris Williamson is the host of the "Modern Wisdom" podcast. See him live on select dates throughout the United Kingdom.
https://chriswillx.com/modernwisdom
https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisWillx
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