The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - October 23, 2023


Anna Epstein, Hamas, and the Suicidal Water-Seeking Cricket (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_609)


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Length

7 minutes

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131.05278

Word count

922

Sentence count

64

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Misogyny

9

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Toxicity

9

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Hate speech

7

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A clip from a group called Camera on Campus that documents the insanity that goes on on our campuses. In this clip, we see a young Jewish woman named Anna Epstein taking down posters of the missing kidnapped babies in Gaza and other hostages.

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00:00:00.080 Hi everybody, this is Gad Saad.
00:00:03.220 Many of you who've read the parasitic mind know that the neuroparasitological framework
00:00:11.080 that I use stems from an understanding that in the animal kingdom there are many neuroparasites
00:00:19.420 that will parasitize the neuronal circuitry of the host animal, causing it to behave in
00:00:27.680 maladaptive ways, in many cases in suicidal ways, to suit typically the reproductive 0.67
00:00:33.760 interest of the neuroparasite, and that's why I use that framework in the parasitic mind
00:00:41.380 to explain how human beings can be parasitized by another class of brain worms, I call them
00:00:49.220 idea pathogens, and hence that's the framework that I use from my book.
00:00:53.700 So today what I'd like to do is give you an example of that.
00:00:56.300 I'm about to share with you a clip from Camera on Campus.
00:01:06.040 They are a group that documents much of the insanity that goes on on these campuses.
00:01:12.560 In this case we have Anna Epstein, okay, Anna Epstein, Jewish Anna Epstein, pulling down the 0.98
00:01:24.300 posters of the missing kidnapped people in Gaza, the Israeli people, you know, the babies and
00:01:34.880 so on, and she's pulling them down. 0.99
00:01:37.620 So this is Anna Epstein who is supporting Hamas by pulling down photos of kidnapped babies and 0.95
00:01:50.300 other hostages.
00:01:51.620 And I'll come back after you watch it and I'll continue making my points.
00:01:57.360 Are you defending terrorism really?
00:02:00.100 You guys really defending terrorism? 1.00
00:02:03.100 Like you cowards. 1.00
00:02:04.100 You should be ashamed of yourself. 1.00
00:02:06.100 You should be ashamed of yourself. 0.78
00:02:08.100 These people are killing innocent civilians.
00:02:10.100 They've killed friends of ours.
00:02:11.840 Families, people here are affected directly and you guys are denying it?
00:02:13.840 Taking them out?
00:02:14.840 Spreading hate?
00:02:15.840 Encourage anti-semitism?
00:02:16.840 Dude, you literally know I'm Jewish.
00:02:17.840 Like, I've been...
00:02:18.840 That's not even sure.
00:02:19.840 That makes it much better.
00:02:20.840 No, but I'm saying, like, you have no right to tell people that their beliefs are wrong or
00:02:36.580 that you're supporting...
00:02:37.580 It's not a belief.
00:02:38.580 No, that's not...
00:02:39.580 It's not a belief.
00:02:40.580 You don't have to believe to think that raping someone is wrong.
00:02:44.580 You don't have to believe that someone getting kidnapped, that babies getting beheaded, that
00:02:48.840 an 85-year-old grandmother is getting kidnapped, it's wrong.
00:02:52.700 That's not a belief.
00:02:53.700 That's not an opinion.
00:02:54.700 And if it is, of course, I don't respect it.
00:02:56.700 Why are you filming?
00:02:58.700 Because...
00:02:59.700 What's your point?
00:03:00.700 What?
00:03:01.700 To show where the hell of the hate is coming from in this campus.
00:03:04.940 Most Jewish students don't feel safe because a lot of other students are doing it and the 1.00
00:03:09.700 worst place is that there's Jewish students like you, unfortunately, who, like, encourage 1.00
00:03:13.840 them to continue doing this and they get validated by it. 0.60
00:03:17.840 You don't know what...
00:03:18.480 Look, you are reading into propaganda.
00:03:21.300 Sure.
00:03:21.900 Yeah.
00:03:22.520 Hmm?
00:03:23.240 Tell me.
00:03:23.560 You're supporting occupation.
00:03:26.060 An illegal occupation that's been happening for 75 years.
00:03:28.380 It's about Hamas and the atrocities and all of the workers they're committing. 0.93
00:03:32.780 It's not about anything else.
00:03:34.820 You're not condemning terrorists? 1.00
00:03:36.880 That shit is wrong. 1.00
00:03:38.340 You should be ashamed of yourself. 1.00
00:03:39.480 So, did you enjoy Anna's noble fight?
00:03:44.260 Now, just for a moment, imagine if Anna was at the music festival where other young women 0.98
00:03:52.180 of her age were raped, were killed, were shot, were tortured.
00:03:57.760 Then Anna might have a different perspective. 0.97
00:04:01.360 But from the safety of the progressive hallways of Boston University, Anna decided that, you
00:04:08.000 know, those Zionist occupiers, they're on the wrong side of history. 0.95
00:04:13.100 And that's why she's taken down the posters of the kidnapped babies, the kidnapped Zionist 1.00
00:04:19.960 occupying babies.
00:04:21.300 So, now I'd like to draw an analogy with a specific neural parasite in nature.
00:04:27.620 And I've discussed this example in the past.
00:04:30.660 It's the case of the cricket that otherwise avoids water, but then becomes suicidal and
00:04:37.140 jumping into water because the parasite that has taken over its brain needs to be in water
00:04:46.220 in order to complete its reproductive cycle. 1.00
00:04:48.460 So, I'm going to give you the reference and you can check it out.
00:04:50.560 So, the title of the paper is Two Steps to Suicides in Crickets Harboring Hair Worms.
00:04:57.280 It's by Marta I.
00:04:58.780 Sanchez et al.
00:04:59.760 It's a 2008 paper that was published in Animal Behavior, issue 76, page 1621 to 1624.
00:05:13.220 So, I'll just read you part of the, well, I'll read you the abstract.
00:05:16.540 The hair worm, Nematomorpha paragordius trichus pidatus, has the ability to alter the behavior
00:05:26.020 of its terrestrial insect host, the cricket, Nemobius sylvestris, making it jump into water
00:05:32.900 to reach its reproductive habitat, as I exactly told you.
00:05:36.260 Because water is a limited and critical resource in the ecosystem, we predicted that hair worms 0.79
00:05:42.240 should adaptively manipulate host behavior to maximize parasite reproductive success.
00:05:48.980 Our results supported the hypothesis that the host manipulation strategy of hair worms consists
00:05:55.080 of at least two distinct steps, first the induction of erratic behavior, and then suicidal behavior per se,
00:06:03.820 also now known as the Anna Epstein behavior.
00:06:08.200 Hair worms secured mating by starting to manipulate their host before being fully mature.
00:06:14.240 Once induced, the cricket's suicidal behavior was maintained until the host found water,
00:06:22.040 but the fecundity of worms decreased over time.
00:06:25.200 As expected, the fecundity of worms was better in crickets with suicidal rather than erratic behaviors,
00:06:32.420 meaning that the cricket needs to be completely unconcerned with its survival
00:06:39.560 to suit the reproductive interests of the neuroparasite.
00:06:49.200 I hope you become famous Anna Epstein.
00:06:52.300 It's easy to say, oh, but you know, she's just a kid. 0.99
00:06:55.160 She's just finding her way. 0.56
00:06:57.860 Well, you're the cricket, Anna.
00:07:01.780 Cheers.