Sunday Thoughts: Joe Rogan

I first saw Joe Rogan on an old show called NewsRadio. Funny guy. And he ponders existential dilemmas + practices Jiu-Jitsu too.

Pirates, past lives, and sucking dick for homemade wine... not necessarily in that order.

"I was headed to jiu jitsu class tonight, and I was listening to the CNN coverage of the Somali pirate stand off on Satellite radio.
It's pretty fucking crazy shit if you're not aware of the story. Basically there's a stand off between US navy warships and 4 ak-47 armed pirates with one American hostage, and they're adrift at sea for over a day in a lifeboat with no bathroom.

The somalia pirate situation is an incredibly complicated and fucked up problem.
A lot of these guys were fishermen until European boats illegally overfished their waters and dumped millions of gallons of toxic waste in it.
Hundreds of people have died because of the toxic chemicals dumped there, and some of these fisherman turned to a life of crime.
It's an incredibly successful one, too.
These guys are pulling off kidnappings and taking over boats all over the place, often hundreds of miles from the shore.
Where they live is beyond fucked, there's no real government, everywhere you look there are guys armed to the teeth chewing khat, a weed that has amphetamines in it.
Warlords run that part of the world, and in a land where the average person makes $600.00 a year, these motherfuckers are bringing in millions by holding boats hostage and demanding ransom.

It's a really scary situation, and there's not much people can do about it. It's a completely unstable area, and criminal activity has proven to be far too attractive and profitable. These cracked out pirates are fucking rock stars over there. They're rich as fuck, and they spend money like Tommy Lee at a strip club.
They live in an incredibly violent world of warlords and disposable lives with virtually no one to stop them. I was sitting in my car just trying to imagine what growing up in that environment would be like.

Could you even imagine? That easily could have been your world. How incredibly unfortunate it would be to be born a baby in the middle of all that shit. Your daddy is a heavily armed, cranked up fisherman who hijacks ships, and your mom is the type of woman that wants a guy like that to fuck her.
Just a complete shit situation.
And it could have easily be you or I in that situation.
At least that's one theory."

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