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00:00:00.680 All right. I have a great show for you today. I have a distinguished professor that I am going

00:00:07.580 to be going over some of the biggest stories in the news and internationally. Dr. Godstad,

00:00:13.840 thank you so much for joining me today. Thank you for having me. Great to be with you.

00:00:18.060 So let me give some background to my audience. I've seen you several times on the Joe Rogan

00:00:25.580 experience. I assure you we're not going to go three hours, but Professor Saad is a professor,

00:00:34.080 a writer, an author, a deep thinker, and someone who gets pulled into conversations that he may or

00:00:40.440 may not want to talk about. But I appreciate you coming on today. The first thing that I wanted to

00:00:46.340 go over with you is you've spoken openly about Israel, Palestine, over the years, the disappearance

00:00:55.400 of Jews and Christians from Europe, Turkey, parts of Africa. I've never been to the Middle East or

00:01:03.060 Israel, so I admit I don't fully understand the war that's going on in this region. But let's start 0.85

00:01:10.760 with the attack on Israel on October 7th. What are your thoughts on that attack?

00:01:17.480 Well, of course, it was a level of barbarity that's difficult for most people to comprehend.

00:01:25.240 Now, even for someone like me who hails from the Middle East, for your viewers and listeners who

00:01:30.940 may not know my background, I was part of the very small dwindling community of Lebanese Jews

00:01:38.560 that had steadfastly remained in Lebanon in the 70s, even though, you know, the writing was somewhat

00:01:46.380 on the wall, that it was probably not a viable long-term future for Jews to be in the Middle East.

00:01:53.860 But my family was well entrenched in Lebanese society, and then the Civil War broke out in 1975.

00:02:00.460 It became impossible to be Jewish in Lebanon, and most wars are judged against the brutality

00:02:10.780 of the Lebanese Civil War because that war was, it pitted neighbor against neighbor. People who lived

00:02:17.740 next to each other for years, for decades, suddenly became enemies because you're of the wrong religion, 0.99

00:02:24.280 because you're not of the right religious heritage. And being Jewish, there weren't too many people 1.00

00:02:29.800 who were going to look fondly upon you because, again, as you pointed out in your introduction,

00:02:37.520 religious minorities don't typically end up faring too well in lands that are ruled by Islam. Now,

00:02:46.040 in Lebanon, it used to be at one point a largely Christian nation, about two-thirds Christian. Today,

00:02:55.340 it's flipped. It's now a Muslim majority. There are 56 countries that are part of the IOC, the Islamic 1.00

00:03:05.300 Organization of Cooperation, or I can't remember what the acronym is. It's a cabal of 56 Islamic nations.

00:03:14.800 All those nations once did not have a single Muslim in them. And then, bat your eyes, and then suddenly

00:03:24.980 they're 90% Islamic, 99% Islamic. So what happened to the Christians in Iraq? What happened to the 0.80

00:03:32.420 Christians in Syria? What happened to the Coptic Christians in Egypt? Each of those countries used to 1.00

00:03:38.380 be majority Christian. And, of course, there were huge Jewish populations all over the Middle East

00:03:44.520 before Christianity existed, before Islam existed. And now there are almost no Jews left. So in that 0.96

00:03:51.940 grand existential sense, it doesn't surprise me that there was an attack on October 7th. What perhaps,

00:03:59.420 even for someone with my background, surprises me is the level of depravity.

00:04:04.560 But frankly, this is exactly what I've been warning people for decades, which is that this has nothing

00:04:12.820 to do with contested land. It's not because we want to draw the land here, but you want to draw

00:04:19.100 there. It's not a fight on occupation. The Jews cannot exist in Arabia. It is an affront to Islam in general 1.00

00:04:31.220 that Jews have sovereignty. So Islam can tolerate you as long as you are a dimmi. A dimmi is an Arabic 1.00

00:04:42.140 word. It's a Quranic concept, which basically means that when Islam comes in and rules a land,

00:04:49.940 if you are part of what's called people of the book, so Christians and Jews, we may not force you to

00:04:56.980 convert. We may not chop off your head. We may tolerate your existence, but you have to know 1.00

00:05:03.460 your place. And it's not even a second class citizen. It's a third class citizen. You pay a

00:05:09.340 jizya, which is a tax, and you're constantly reminded of your status as a lesser than, right? And so

00:05:17.620 that's the reality in the Middle East. And this is why we had to leave Lebanon. That's why there are no 1.00

00:05:23.420 longer any Jews in Yemen or in Saudi Arabia or in Algeria or in Libya. There are very, very few

00:05:31.560 number of Jews in the order of maybe 2,000 in Morocco, and there's about 20,000 Jews in Iran.

00:05:38.500 But almost in the rest of the Middle East, you have no Jews left. And so what happened on October 7

00:05:45.240 is only surprising in the extent to which there was depravity, but it's not surprising in the sense 0.99

00:05:51.480 that we will have peace in the Middle East once we eradicate those pesky Jews. I'm speaking, of 1.00

00:05:58.500 course, from the perspective of the Palestinians. Yes. Okay. I felt like on October 8th, the entire 0.75

00:06:07.600 world was on Israel's side. And within a couple of weeks, it's like they started losing the PR war.

00:06:18.040 And all of a sudden, it was like everybody was on Palestine's side, suddenly calling for the 0.95

00:06:26.040 eradication of all of the Jews, shutting down Israel. Did that move quickly in your mind? For me, 0.89

00:06:33.820 it happened very quickly. All of a sudden, I saw a different America than what I had seen on October 6th,

00:06:42.120 where, you know, people were pretty supportive of the Jews. Maybe, you know, the Hasidic Jews in New 0.52

00:06:49.300 York, oh, we don't fully understand them. They keep to themselves, we keep to ourselves. But for the

00:06:53.560 most part, this vitriol towards the Jewish state and the Jewish people, that really caught me off guard.

00:07:02.500 Yes. Well, I think you're being generous in saying that it took a couple of weeks for

00:07:07.200 public opinion to switch shift against the Jews and Israel. As a matter of fact, there were protests

00:07:13.940 before Israel had fired a single gun in retaliation. There was already sort of preemptive protest. There

00:07:22.500 was a genocide taking place before a gun was fired. And so, yes, you are right that even for someone

00:07:31.740 with my background, it took me a bit by surprise at the vitriol. What's interesting is that the

00:07:38.760 vitriol, I'm going to now focus it on me, that I've received as a Lebanese Jew and as a professor

00:07:47.220 who's very much in the public eye, it was coming at me from all angles. So, of course, you had the

00:07:53.980 Islamic-based Jew hatred, right? So, it's the guy that has, you know, some Islamic thing in his 0.66

00:08:01.240 ex-bio and his name is Muhammad Ahmad. He's sending me, you know, what they're going to do to me when 1.00

00:08:09.640 they rule and what they're going to do to the Jews. But you also had the we-will-not-be-replaced 0.67

00:08:15.980 crowd. So, it's sort of the ultra-right-wing neo-Nazi types who were also sending me the Jew

00:08:23.700 hatred. And then to complete the trifecta of Jew hatred cocktail, you had the progressive academic

00:08:32.200 leftist types who also were sending me all the hate, right? You're part of the cabal of Zionists, 1.00

00:08:39.380 you're a baby killer. And so, there was nowhere I can turn where I wasn't going to be, you know, 1.00

00:08:47.460 facing a tsunami of Jew hatred. And incidentally, I've repeated over and over, you said you've seen

00:08:54.840 me on Joe Rogan, I've repeated it on Joe Rogan that, of course, every single innocent life that is lost,

00:09:02.760 whether it be Palestinian or Israeli or anybody, is a tragedy by definition. An innocent life is an 0.99

00:09:08.740 innocent life. And so, my message is simply that I defend the right of Jews to exist. I defend the

00:09:16.000 right of my extended family. I have family all over Israel. It wasn't pretty on October 8th for me to

00:09:23.060 be calling everybody to make sure that they weren't at the music festival. But the mere fact that I cared

00:09:29.120 that my family wasn't exterminated demonstrated that I was a Zionist baby killer, right? And so, it is 0.96

00:09:38.240 a level of debauchery, of existential debauchery that's very, very difficult to handle. And we may

00:09:44.540 think that this problem will eventually go away, but the cat's out of the bag. When you have 30, 40,

00:09:50.600 50 years of university education that teaches you the dichotomy of the Jews have no ancestral ties to

00:10:01.540 that land. They had actually, prior to 1948, lived in perfect Kumbaya with their noble, peaceful

00:10:09.500 Palestinian brothers and sisters until some white-looking Zionists from Eastern and Central 0.97

00:10:16.580 Europe came in and eradicated the Palestinians. And therefore, the Jew is the oppressor. He is the 1.00

00:10:23.980 colonialist. The noble, brown Palestinians are lovely, kind, tolerant people. When you're taught that,

00:10:30.720 at every single political science department, at every university in the West, well, then it's not

00:10:36.900 surprising that you're going to have the campus protests that you have. So, there you go.

00:10:42.080 Okay. I wanted to, I actually do want to hit on those, but something you wrote, and I'm paraphrasing

00:10:49.720 because I went back and I couldn't find it, but it essentially came across as a warning to the West.

00:10:56.420 You had said or tweeted that Islam or the Muslim world sees the West as a woman ready to be mounted.

00:11:06.320 What, what, what, I have a feeling what you mean by that, but since you're here with me, what,

00:11:11.500 what did you mean by that?

00:11:12.980 So, look, Arabic is a very flowery language and a very poetic language and a very vivid language so

00:11:21.140 that even if you're saying niceties. So, if men are interacting with each other, I go to a butcher 0.80

00:11:27.380 shop, let's say in an Arabic context, the butcher will look at me and say, oh, what can I get your

00:11:33.360 beautiful eyes? This is not a homo erotic moment. It's just, it's a very flowery way. Oh, my heart, 1.00

00:11:40.460 what can I get for you, right? So, that's the positive side of the flowery language. But there's also,

00:11:46.560 you know, Arabic societies are based on honor and shame. They're very much of a militaristic, 1.00

00:11:54.340 conquering kind of warrior-like mentality. And so, a lot of expressions in Arabic reflect that

00:12:01.600 reality so that I've often been told that that's what you're referring to. I've often been told when

00:12:08.160 I speak to, Arabic is my mother tongue, having, you know, grown up in Lebanon. So, this is,

00:12:15.020 this didn't happen now because now typically people will recognize me and they won't take

00:12:19.240 liberties in saying those things to me. But say, 20, 25 years ago when I would have been less known

00:12:24.220 and I'm speaking to people in Arabic, then they would usually say to me that the West is a woman

00:12:31.480 to be mounted, right? So, try to imagine what the imagery means, right? It's to be conquered. It's to

00:12:37.900 be vanquished. It's to be effed, right? Because every single virtue that in the West is viewed as a

00:12:47.580 laudable virtue, compassion, kindness, empathy, generosity, magnanimity, to the mind of the people

00:12:58.760 who wish to conquer you, each of those virtues is viewed as weakness, weakness, weakness, weakness,

00:13:06.840 and weakness. Therefore, you have what I wrote in an article recently, you have what I refer to as

00:13:13.280 cultural blindness, right? But when we typically think about two people talking to each other,

00:13:18.860 if I speak Arabic and only Arabic and you speak English and only English, we're going to have a 0.99

00:13:24.400 hard time understanding each other because we don't have a shared language. But that's

00:13:28.600 not the only place where our communication breaks down. There are more subtle ways in which our

00:13:34.320 communication breaks down, not by virtue of not speaking the same language, but by virtue of not

00:13:40.260 having an intersection in our Venn diagrams in terms of what do we ascribe to particular values.

00:13:49.620 I view those values as laudable, you view them as weakness, so we're going to speak over each other.

00:13:56.500 There's going to be no intersection in our shared meaning. That's precisely why Western leaders

00:14:03.540 consistently make policy decisions that for someone like me who comes from the Middle East, 0.96

00:14:09.300 I will say, are you insane? Do you not understand what's happening? That's precisely because you have 0.97

00:14:15.560 cultural blindness. And so that example of the West is the woman to be mounted is referring to that 0.86

00:14:23.340 conquering mindset. Okay. Wow. That's really interesting. So almost using what we consider

00:14:31.140 a virtue against us to get their way. For example, I read a lot of international news and I'm seeing

00:14:40.320 what from my perspective looks like Europe being taken over by illegal immigrants that are coming in 1.00

00:14:49.360 and the taxpayers are being abused in order to take care of the newly arrived people or as Biden would

00:14:57.860 call them newcomers, right? And so it's like being conquered by the people that your government 1.00

00:15:05.340 forces tax money out of you to take care of. I'm seeing this in England. I'm seeing this in France,

00:15:11.520 Holland, Brussels. I'm starting to see it here in the United States, New York, for example.

00:15:16.860 You've got a lot of angry New Yorkers that are saying, wait a minute, you're getting more benefits

00:15:22.840 as an illegal immigrant who's been here for five minutes than me having lived here and paid taxes

00:15:29.340 and worked within a system for 70 years. It's been interesting to report on and watch.

00:15:37.180 Right. So I'll make two points regarding what you just said. Number one, about 30 plus years ago,

00:15:44.300 various Islamists and Muslim Brotherhood guys and so on were very open about how they were going to

00:15:53.020 conquer the West or to use the earlier euphemism, how they're going to mount the West in the way that

00:16:00.080 you mount a woman, if you forgive the vulgarity. They said, number one, we're going to conquer the West 0.96

00:16:07.580 through the womb of our women, meaning they're going to outbreed you. Right. So in the West, 0.94

00:16:15.300 not just the West, even in some Far East societies that share some of our values, you don't even get

00:16:22.760 the fertility rate that is necessary for the replacement rate, which is roughly around 2.17.

00:16:28.560 Right. So if one society is producing six children and the other one is producing 1.3

00:16:34.420 children, it doesn't take a fancy demographer to tell you how long it will take before some of those

00:16:42.080 dynamics change. Demography is truly destiny. So number one, remember, is we're going to conquer

00:16:48.600 the West through the womb of our women. Number two, we're going to conquer the West, to your point 0.94

00:16:54.920 about the newcomers. We're going to conquer the West through hijra. Hijra is the Arabic word for 0.99

00:17:01.060 migration. Right. Number two, number three, we're going to conquer the West by using your miserable 1.00

00:17:09.240 laws and freedoms against you. Right. I mean, they're telling you that and you go, la, la, la. I don't 0.86

00:17:16.600 want to hear it. So that's point one. So exactly to your point. Number two, in my forthcoming book,

00:17:22.560 which I haven't, it's not out yet, but I'm in the process of, you know, working on it. This book is

00:17:31.300 called Suicidal Empathy. And it basically references the fact that empathy as an emotion

00:17:39.600 makes perfect evolutionary sense for us to have that emotion. They are, in other words, our emotional

00:17:45.260 system, envy, love, jealousy, empathy, all of generosity, all of these emotional systems have

00:17:56.120 evolved because they solve an important evolutionary problem. But here's the big but. But if empathy

00:18:05.120 becomes hyperactive or if empathy is directed to the wrong target, then it becomes a maladaptive

00:18:13.760 emotion. Right. So if I care more about the newcomer than I care about the American vet,

00:18:20.120 that's not good. If I care more about the crystal meth homeless guy who's shooting up in the children's

00:18:27.880 park and fornicating and defecating, and I care more about the homeless guy than about taxpayer and

00:18:35.480 their children having free access to the public park, that's not empathetic. If I care more about 0.98

00:18:42.220 the felon who's previously been arrested 67 times, well, let's give him a 68th chance because

00:18:50.620 maybe the 68th time he'll turn it around. It's not really nice for us to put him in the penal system

00:18:57.080 because, you know, he was born of a darker skin and therefore societies already turned him into a

00:19:02.540 victim. And we shouldn't turn him into more of a victim by putting him in prison. And therefore,

00:19:07.520 that's why we have to give him a 68th chance after he's been arrested. All of those are exactly

00:19:14.300 manifestations of what I call suicidal empathy. So what has the West done in general, whether it be,

00:19:20.620 as you said, Germany or the Netherlands or France or Denmark or Sweden or England, Canada is certainly

00:19:29.080 following suit. The U.S. is following suit. You know, we can demonstrate that we are truly loving

00:19:34.800 and kind people by opening our doors to millions of people who don't share any of our foundational

00:19:43.200 deontological values. But I'm sure it will all work out. That's exactly what I talk about in The

00:19:49.220 Parasitic Mind, which I don't know if you could see it here. The Parasitic Mind is a book that came out

00:19:54.060 in 2020, where I talk about in one of the chap. Oh, yeah, it's this one here, the yellow one.

00:19:59.600 Yes. Yep. Last one this way. The yellow one. I have a chapter on ostrich parasitic syndrome.

00:20:08.160 Now, why do I call it ostrich parasitic syndrome? Because even though the ostrich doesn't truly bury

00:20:13.100 its head in the sand, the metaphor now, everybody understands what it means. It's a mechanism by which

00:20:19.060 I negate reality. I reject reality. I bury my head in the sand and hopefully the problem goes away.

00:20:25.080 So if you let in, for example, people into Canada, let's go with Canada. So now everybody's scratching 0.72

00:20:32.100 their head. Why is there such an exponential astronomical growth in Jew hatred in Canada?

00:20:39.800 Well, let's see if we can break down this mystery. All right. And as I do that, let me just begin with

00:20:45.600 an analogy. On any day that I go, bear with me, I'm going to come back to the point. Okay. On any given

00:20:52.180 day that I go on a diet, one of three things can happen to my weight at the end of that day, based

00:21:00.080 on the decisions that I made that day. My weight can go up, my weight can stay the same, or my weight

00:21:05.040 can go down. There are only three states of the world, right? Now let's apply that tripartite mechanism

00:21:10.900 to say Jew hatred and immigration. So now you see where I'm going with this. If I let in 0.99

00:21:16.680 hundreds of thousands of people that hail from societies, where when you poll the people in

00:21:23.460 those societies, they return 95 to 99% of polled people have endemic Jew hatred. Let me repeat that 0.65

00:21:33.360 for your listeners. So these are Pew studies. So Pew is kind of a woke, so they're not, they're certainly

00:21:39.020 not ultra right-wing guys. So Pew surveys, when you survey people from Islamic societies and you

00:21:47.060 ask them, what are your views on Jews? If you got 10% of the polled people saying that they hate the

00:21:53.520 Jews, that would be a problem. If it were 10%, that would be one out of every 10. When you get 95 to 99% 1.00

00:22:01.000 saying that they hate the Jews, and now you let in half a million people in a year to Canada

00:22:07.520 that hail from those societies, let's apply the tripartite model. What do you think is going to

00:22:13.540 happen in Canada? Is Jew hatred going to go up? Is it going to stay the same? Or is it going to go

00:22:18.700 down? My God, what a mystery. We really need Professor Saab to come and elucidate this rocket

00:22:23.880 science mystery for us. So that's what ostrich parasitic syndrome is. It's basically living in

00:22:30.560 la la land and completely negating every single natural law of cause and effect. If you let in

00:22:37.200 people that don't share your values, it's going to create schisms within your society.

00:22:42.580 Yeah. That makes total sense to me. Since you brought up Canada, and you brought up the example

00:22:55.720 of, you know, even if we don't speak the same language, we may see things totally different.

00:23:00.520 So I'm from Utah. It's from a predominantly European conservative Christian, out west,

00:23:07.700 away from New York and the East Coast. I look at Canada, and I go, oh my gosh, Justin Trudeau

00:23:16.440 is a maniac. You know, his love for letting illegals in, his opening up this idea of allowing people that 0.98

00:23:28.000 are miserable or sick or don't have the money to, you know, have an assisted suicide,

00:23:34.240 how expensive housing has become, on and on and on, the trucker rally, getting into people's bank

00:23:40.660 accounts, shutting down their businesses. From your perspective, now being in Canada, how do you see

00:23:47.160 Justin Trudeau as a leader? Do you see him as a good, benevolent leader? Or do you see him as more,

00:23:53.880 for lack of a better word, tyrannical? I don't know. What are your thoughts?

00:23:57.840 Well, there is a quote of mine from about seven years ago, which went viral at one point,

00:24:05.740 and I'm sure you could pull it up, where I wish we had it handy. It would pretty much capture

00:24:13.700 the answer to the question that you're posing. But let me try to paraphrase it. The quote goes

00:24:19.100 something like this. At the time, so now I've been, I'm about to enter my 31st year as a professor.

00:24:25.900 But this was at the time, I think at the time it was, I had been a professor for 23 years.

00:24:30.660 And so at the time I said, if you were to take every single undergraduate student that I've ever

00:24:38.640 taught, which would be in the many, many thousands, and you rank them, I'm first going to talk about

00:24:44.280 his acuity, his mental acuity. Then I'll talk about whether he's diabolical or not. And if you rank

00:24:50.360 them in terms of their intelligence, Justin Trudeau would be a hundred times dumber than the dumbest of 1.00

00:24:59.380 my students. So now let's link it to not just his intelligence. Justin Trudeau is a walking 0.99

00:25:07.960 manifestation of every parasitic idea that I discuss in my book, The Parasitic Mind. He's a 0.97

00:25:15.000 postmodernist. He's a post-nation. He's a globalist. Instead of saying recovery for economic recovery,

00:25:24.280 he says she-covery. Instead of saying recession, he says she-cession because he is using feminist

00:25:32.780 language to explain the economy because he's so empathetic. He's a lot more empathetic than ogres 0.63

00:25:39.900 like you and me. You see, he's a male feminist. He's got a feminist fiscal policy. He's got a feminist 0.99

00:25:47.760 global policy. He's kind. He doesn't believe that any religions are better than any others.

00:25:54.900 Right? So he wants to tax you more. Just to give you a sense, in Canada, I work from January till end of

00:26:05.800 August for the government. And only starting in September, I keep my money. It's a way to demonstrate

00:26:14.740 what the taxes are in Canada. So just to give you a sense, the highest tax bracket for the federal

00:26:23.360 government is 33%. The highest tax bracket at the provincial level in Quebec, it's 25%. So now we're

00:26:31.500 already well beyond 50%. We're at 58%. Now, so now I've got 42% left, right? Okay. Now, if I go and spend that

00:26:43.820 42% left, I made a dollar, but you've already taken 58 cents. I only have 42 cents left. That 42 cents,

00:26:51.520 if I go and buy stuff, you take 15% of that because we have both a provincial sales tax and a federal

00:27:01.000 sales tax, what's called the GST, goods and services tax at the federal level. So now you took another 15%.

00:27:07.700 Then there's property tax, then there is school tax, then there is carbon tax, then there is gas tax. So at the end of

00:27:15.860 the year, I would be very lucky if I were to retain 30 cents on the dollar. So when it comes to comparing the most

00:27:27.180 autocratic slave system, so right, a slave owns nothing, right? My entire, from January 1st to December 31st, I own

00:27:36.900 nothing. I only work for you. I'm a slave. Well, if I work for you, Justin Trudeau, until the end of

00:27:44.760 August or early September, I'm a lot more to being a slave than to be a free man with full autonomy. 0.97

00:27:53.100 So Justin Trudeau is a dictatorial parasite that is, that has beautiful hair and is tall. Therefore, 0.97

00:28:03.060 it's okay if he's a dictator, because at least he legalized marijuana. And that's literally what

00:28:09.480 millions of Canadians said, not once, not twice, but three times. He's now been prime minister on

00:28:17.920 three separate occasions. By the way, in none of the occasions that he get more than 30, 30 something

00:28:25.060 percent of the votes. But because of the parliamentary system of Canada, he's able to

00:28:31.140 become prime minister, even though six to seven out of 10 Canadians voted against him, yet he's not been

00:28:37.920 prime minister for eight years. So it's a total travesty. And this is why I am desperate to leave

00:28:45.020 Canada. Maybe you guys could take me in as a political refugee.

00:28:47.560 Hey, Utah would love to have you. Yeah, Justin Trudeau, he gave a speech not long ago, I had to

00:28:54.760 go back and watch it because I was like, Oh, wait a minute, that was like a master class in political

00:29:01.100 talk. He, he was asked the question, Are you concerned for Canadian citizens? Because life has

00:29:06.960 become so expensive. He starts off by saying, Of course, I'm concerned about food and housing,

00:29:12.720 and also green energy. And the fact that the the the planet is being killed. And by the time he's

00:29:20.200 done, the entire speech was about green energy. And I was like, Wow, wait a minute, wasn't the

00:29:25.380 question about how expensive it is to live in Canada? And it was like he it was so smooth and

00:29:31.700 subtle. I think most of the people in the audience forgot what the question was.

00:29:35.960 So I'll give you a I want to bring a prop prop. Imagine that this were a the cork of a wine bottle.

00:29:45.700 Okay, I'm going to now get Arabic on you. There's an expression in Arabic that says getting drunk

00:29:51.680 simply by smelling the cork of the wine bottle. Now, literally, what that means is that you are of

00:29:58.220 such weak constituency that you don't even need to drink the bottle of wine for you to get drunk.

00:30:05.080 Again, to my earlier point, Arabic is a very poetic and flowery language. But now let's apply that

00:30:10.880 mechanism, right? Look, I'm going to get drunk by smelling the cork of Justin Trudeau. So to your

00:30:16.780 point, my God, he says such attractive platitudes, vacuous nonsense. But my God, is he tall?

00:30:25.520 Look at this. He's got such beautiful hair, and he's young, right? So therefore, I'm mesmerized,

00:30:31.040 just like by noble prophet, peace be upon him, Barack Obama, right? There isn't a single syllable

00:30:37.280 that he's ever uttered. I'm speaking about Barack Obama, not right now. That isn't a complete vacuous,

00:30:43.780 pletutinous, complete nonsense. But my God, he says it so beautifully. He's got a mellifluous voice. 0.71

00:30:50.680 He's got a radiant smile. He's tall and lanky. Therefore, look, I'm getting drunk by smelling the

00:30:56.800 quirk of Barack Obama. On the other hand, look at the quirk of Donald Trump. He's fat. He's

00:31:05.200 cantankerous. He speaks with the accent of a brawler mafia guy from Queens. He disgusts me.

00:31:13.800 You see it? Therefore, I'm not using actual substantive cues in deciding whether I should

00:31:20.380 love Barack Obama or hate him, whether I should love Donald Trump. I didn't say I love Donald Trump

00:31:27.080 or hate him because of his monetary policy. I simply got drunk by smelling the quirk of the wine

00:31:33.420 bottle. Now, that's the regrettable part of the great majority of people who vote, right?

00:31:39.320 Thinking is simply too hard. I don't have really the energy to think. Therefore, I'm going to use

00:31:45.800 peripheral cosmetic cues in establishing whom I should vote for. You're tall. You're lanky. You

00:31:54.160 have pretty hair. You say words that sound as though you're empathetic and kind. I'm sold. Oh,

00:32:00.700 you've got the word liberal in your, right? It's the liberal party of Justin Trudeau. Oh, I'm liberal.

00:32:07.540 Therefore, I should vote for him, even though there isn't a single policy of his that isn't the height

00:32:14.020 of illiberalism. But that would be too much hard work for me to think about that, right? And I don't

00:32:20.700 want to vote for the conservatives because, you know, I'm not a conservative guy. I'm liberal. I

00:32:25.740 live in Montreal. You follow what I'm saying? Yeah. So that's exactly what I refer to as human beings

00:32:32.680 are cognitive misers. Cognitive miser means that I want to avoid the effort and the exhaustion of

00:32:42.920 thinking. Therefore, I just vote using a few simplifying cues and heuristics. That's how you

00:32:49.860 get Justin Trudeau leading us for eight years. It's grotesque. And for someone who spent my entire life

00:32:56.420 studying psychology of decision-making, studying how the human mind arrives at choices, it's very

00:33:03.600 disheartening because it harkens back to the days of when Plato said that, you know, democracy is too

00:33:12.040 important to allow the populists to vote. That's why he talked about the philosopher kings, right? It

00:33:18.580 should be really the elite intellectuals who are shaping. Now, I'm not suggesting that we should get

00:33:24.860 rid of democracy, but it speaks to the fact that most people, in a sense, their vote is being wasted on

00:33:32.180 them because they don't take their responsibility seriously. You're tall, you have pretty hair, I vote

00:33:38.360 for you. Yeah. I say this with humility, but I have been told to run for office because I have

00:33:45.460 great hair. Are you tall? Well, I'm 5'10". 5'10", that's not bad. See, whenever people have told me that I

00:33:54.140 should run, I should become Prime Minister of Canada, I say, I am way too short to ever be Prime Minister.

00:34:00.520 I am the height of Lionel Messi. You could look up later how tall that is. That is less than 5'10",

00:34:06.520 and therefore, my chances of ever being a leader are next to nil. Yeah. But just, like, I've had

00:34:14.080 people confirm exactly what you're saying to me. Like, they don't know what party I vote for. They,

00:34:20.280 like, they just, they're, oh man, you should run for office. You have a great head of hair,

00:34:23.920 you know. And then the haters, you know, quit dyeing your hair with shoe polish. And I get lots

00:34:30.460 of comments and hate towards my hair, but I, you know, I was just born with it. So, okay. I wanted

00:34:38.060 to go back to the Gaza-Israel thing because this is something that I have struggled to understand

00:34:43.920 is, as a news broadcaster, I have had the unfortunate privilege of having to cover the

00:34:52.040 Russia-Ukraine war and the Gaza-Israel war. Both of them, I'm a peaceful person. I understand the

00:34:59.960 need for war. I also understand the need to avoid it. But why do you think there was such a

00:35:06.920 bombastic, energetic reaction to Israel being attacked by Gaza that we didn't see with Russia 0.96

00:35:21.020 attacking Ukraine? Now, I know people put their flags out. If they had lights on their house, 0.78

00:35:26.760 they might have changed them to yellow and blue, maybe a new lapel. But there was no real protesting,

00:35:33.380 no calling for the death of Russia. Why the difference? I've been struggling with this.

00:35:40.780 Right. Now, that's a great question. And it will take a couple of hours to respond to. So I'm going

00:35:45.740 to try to summarize it. All forms of bigotry and hatred are intolerable. And so I don't mean to create

00:35:54.880 a hierarchy of bigotry, but there is nothing remotely close to Jew hatred. Jew hatred is a 0.89

00:36:03.000 cancer of the human soul, right? Now, again, that doesn't mean, I don't mean to imply that that 0.99

00:36:08.980 means if you are homophobic, that that's not as serious. Or if you are, if you hate black people, 0.97

00:36:14.960 that's not also something that's reprehensible. All forms of bigotry where you're not judging a person

00:36:20.760 based on the merits of their character and the flaws of their character is a bad thing, right? That's

00:36:26.900 why Martin Luther King is Martin Luther King, because he recognized that in his famous,

00:36:31.200 I have a dream speech. But Jew hatred, and, you know, we can, if you'd like, get into what are 1.00

00:36:38.900 the sources of Jew hatred? Why does it exist? Jew hatred is uniquely diabolical, so that all you need 1.00

00:36:45.060 to do is kind of scratch the surface, and then the Jew haters come out from the woodwork. They come out 0.99

00:36:51.520 of anywhere. And so to our earlier discussion, what October 7th did is it unleashed all of that Jew 1.00

00:37:00.540 hatred that had been hiding, that had been dormant. It's kind of like the shingles virus, right? It's

00:37:07.300 there, and then if you don't get the vaccine, then you can, you can have an outbreak, right? But it's

00:37:14.880 already in you that, and it's lying dormant. So Jew hatred is always there below the surface. Now, 0.93

00:37:21.620 in the West, we've been fortunate in that for 70, 80 years since the Holocaust, it, the cultural values

00:37:32.400 changed such that it no longer became openly permissible to be anti-Semitic, right? And so for

00:37:40.400 a while, if you want to go to a party, and you want to be accepted with people around you, you can't be 0.95

00:37:46.500 orgiastically open about how much you hate the Jews. But after October 7th, all bets were off. Now, 0.87

00:37:53.700 here's the beautiful semantic trick that can be played. A lot of people will say, oh, no, no, no,

00:37:59.280 I love the Jews. I'm only anti-Zionist, wink, wink. It's only Israel that I hate. It's only Zionism 0.98

00:38:08.580 that I hate. It's not the Jews. That allows you, it grants you cover to be a complete 1.00

00:38:15.740 genocidal Jew hatred, but within the context of the existing ecosystem where it's okay to say 0.98

00:38:23.680 death to Israel, but it's not quite okay yet to say gas the Jews, right? And so what you saw after 0.98

00:38:30.540 October 7th is simply the release of that virus. It allowed it to proliferate openly. And I tell you,

00:38:39.040 I'm not sure that we can recover from that. When earlier you mentioned that you were, you talked

00:38:44.420 about the example where I mentioned about, you know, the woman, the West is like a woman to be 0.98

00:38:49.360 mounted. I thought you were going to mention another tweet of mine that had gone viral just

00:38:54.540 shortly after October 7th. I had put out this long tweet. I think it got 15, 20 million

00:39:00.260 views where I was expressing a somber view of the trajectory that the West was going. And the

00:39:09.560 reason why I think it went viral is because I've become known to most people as the happy warrior,

00:39:15.960 meaning that even though I deal with a lot of very difficult topics, I'm always playful. I always have

00:39:21.880 a twinkle in my eye. I could always joke around, but here my tone was very different. I was basically

00:39:27.920 saying, I truly think that the West is in a death spiral. And that caught people's attention because

00:39:33.540 they said, well, if this guy who's kind of the height of happiness, as a matter of fact,

00:39:37.920 my last book was on happiness. If that guy who is so optimistic and positive and happy can be sold

00:39:47.120 down, then maybe we need to pay attention. And the reason why I was sold down is because I recognized

00:39:53.680 that all of the auto-corrections that the West needs to do to stand the chance at fixing the

00:40:01.340 problem, they are absolutely dead set against implementing any of them, right? So the analogy

00:40:07.540 is the following. You go see your physician and God forbid he or she says, I'm sorry to tell you,

00:40:14.180 you've got stage four cancer. And here are the things we need to do to stand the chance of remedying it.

00:40:19.860 And then your response is, well, there is no such thing as cancer, but if there is such a thing as 0.98

00:40:25.260 cancer, it's probably the fault of the Jews. And if there is a cure for cancer, it's probably the 1.00

00:40:30.700 Jews that are not allowing us to come up with it because they're trying to increase the price of 1.00

00:40:37.400 the cancer drug. And therefore, the reason I'm giving this analogy is because how can you stand the

00:40:43.700 chance of having a fighting chance against cancer if you reject that it exists? And if you think that

00:40:50.140 it's a Zionist plot and so on, therefore, you're going to die of stage four cancer. Well, that's what 0.95

00:40:55.320 the West is. The West has maybe not stage four pancreatic cancer, but it's certainly stage two

00:41:01.840 pancreatic cancer. And the stats are really against you. And the way that you're fighting against it,

00:41:07.340 you're doubling down on every policy that has led us to where we are. One final point, forgive me,

00:41:13.700 I hope I'm not being too long winded. One of the things that people don't understand is they don't

00:41:20.720 they don't have the imagination of a long term view of how these dynamics happen. So for example, when

00:41:29.120 the Taliban were asked about, you know, the West, they said, you may have all the watches, but we've got

00:41:36.980 all the time in the world, inshallah, meaning that the game is a long one, right? So it may not

00:41:43.560 be in five years that Utah falls under the spell of Islam, it may be 50 years, it may be 500 years, 0.99

00:41:52.400 but inshallah, we're coming for you in Utah, and in Salt Lake City, it may take longer that but what

00:41:59.620 most people see is, I look around me today, I live in Orlando, Florida, I'm going to get my tomatoes for

00:42:07.260 tonight's pasta dinner. It's my daughter's wedding next week. Come on, what is this guy Gatsat talking

00:42:13.580 about? He's probably being hyperbolic and exaggerating. No, it's because I'm an immigrant

00:42:19.300 who has sampled from the buffet of societies outside of the West. That's why, by the way,

00:42:25.520 some of the staunchest defenders of the Western traditions are immigrants, because we don't take 1.00

00:42:32.400 the West for granted. We know that the greater buffet of societies is not the West. So when we

00:42:39.200 come to the West, we tell you in Utah, be careful, don't assume that this is for granted and the

00:42:45.520 default value, you've got to defend these freedoms. And people say, no, no, no, this is this is the way

00:42:50.800 it is. It'll always be like that. It won't. Yeah. One of my show's favorite guests is Brigitte Gabriel.

00:42:58.120 Yes. Yes. I don't know if you're a friend, but I know you guys have done a show.

00:43:02.920 Yes. Yes. We know each other, of course. Yes. So she's come on and talked about being a Christian

00:43:09.260 in Lebanon and having to hide and that she's putting out the warning. You guys outside of the

00:43:15.100 West, you don't know what it's really like to live out there. And honestly, I don't. So I'll at least

00:43:22.560 concede and admit that. We've talked about some pretty somber topics. I want to talk about your

00:43:30.180 book about happiness, the sad truth about happiness, eight secrets for leading the good life.

00:43:38.360 What's the book about? Why did you write it? Sure. Thank you so much for switching from somber

00:43:46.220 stuff to happy stuff. I actually wrote it in a serendipitous manner. What I mean by that is that

00:43:52.420 oftentimes I have a trajectory of the things that I want to write about. And in this case,

00:43:58.920 if you would have asked me when I finished The Parasitic Mind, what my next book topic would be,

00:44:04.540 I wouldn't have told you that it would be a book on happiness. The reason I wrote the book is because

00:44:08.660 I would receive tons of emails from people saying to me, to our earlier point, what's your secret to

00:44:16.300 being always so playful and smiley, professor? Tell us your secret. And enough people wrote that to me

00:44:23.720 that I thought, you know, why not take a shot at writing a book on happiness? But I was a bit tepid at

00:44:30.900 first because as you may or may not know, out of all the topics that philosophers have covered through

00:44:37.360 millennia of writing and thinking, probably none has been covered as much as how to live the good life,

00:44:44.280 right? I mean, there are several ancient Greek schools of thought that are largely dedicated to

00:44:50.640 what constitutes the good life. And so I thought, okay, if I'm going to have something fresh and unique

00:44:57.640 and distinct to say in that book, it should be, well, number one, my unique trajectory of how I

00:45:05.240 summited Mount Happiness, coupled with, of course, the ancient wisdoms and backed up by contemporary

00:45:11.740 science, right? So the neuroscience, the psychology, the happiness studies, the positive psychology.

00:45:18.720 So if I can take those three elements, what, what is my trajectory of happiness backed up by ancient

00:45:25.580 wisdoms? Here comes Epictetus, here comes Aristotle, here comes Seneca, and then rooted in contemporary

00:45:33.460 science that supports many of these mechanisms. Then hopefully I've got something interesting to say.

00:45:38.700 So that's how I decided to write the book. Now, the book, as the subtitle says, has every chapter

00:45:44.880 has a different either decision that we make that either imparts great happiness or great misery,

00:45:51.620 if we make the wrong choice, or mindset. So let me, maybe I could just start with two decisions that

00:45:58.540 really give you, right, give you a bang for your buck. So choosing the right spouse and choosing the 0.85

00:46:06.700 right profession, not surprisingly, is really a very quick conduit to being very happy or very

00:46:13.940 miserable. If I wake up next to a person next to me in bed, and I go, oh God, I'm waking up next to

00:46:20.120 this one again, that's probably not a good thing. If I wake up next to this one, I go, yes, boy, am I

00:46:25.740 lucky to be waking up next to this partner while I'm off to a good day. Now, if I go off to a job that

00:46:32.840 gives me great purpose and meaning and fills me with existential glee, and then I return at night

00:46:38.440 to that same person that I woke up to while I've cracked the code. Now, of course, the devil is in

00:46:42.660 the details in that, okay, but how do you, what are the mechanisms by which you can assure yourself to

00:46:48.140 make the right choices? Well, there is no guarantee in that life is a statistical game, but there are

00:46:55.740 certain decision-making processes that I can use that optimize the likelihood of me being happy.

00:47:02.140 So let's take, for example, for mate choice, choosing the right spouse. In evolutionary psychology,

00:47:06.360 there are two maxims. There is the birds of a feather flock together, or the opposites attract

00:47:11.880 maxim. And it may or may not surprise your viewers and listeners that when it comes to the long-term

00:47:19.760 happiness of a marriage, it's overwhelmingly birds of a feather flock together. That is the ruling

00:47:26.080 maxim. Now, the question is, but assorting on which feathers? Is it that we have to have the same eye

00:47:32.760 color or we have to have the same skin color? No, it means that we should have the same foundational

00:47:38.100 values, the same life goals, the same foundational beliefs, right? If I am a caustic atheist and you are

00:47:48.440 deeply steeped in your Mormon religion, well, I'd like to think that love conquers all, but probably

00:47:56.960 we're not off to a good start because I define myself as a, I'm speaking here in generalities,

00:48:02.640 if I am a caustic atheist and you are a committed Catholic or Mormon or Jew or whatever, well, we're 0.65

00:48:10.760 probably putting the statistical odds against us. So finding someone with whom you share all those values

00:48:17.260 is terribly important for, you know, lust fades, but these birds of a feather flock together mechanisms

00:48:24.320 really ensure that you can stay bonded for a long time. And if I may just quickly address the

00:48:30.340 profession or choosing the right job. So I argue that there are two key metrics that you should try to seek

00:48:38.960 to optimize your happiness in your job. So I say, number one, anything that allows you to

00:48:45.700 instantiate your creative impulse is all other things equal going to lend itself to greater purpose

00:48:52.780 and meaning. But now creative impulse could mean many things. You could be a standup comic, you could

00:48:57.580 be a chef, you could be an architect, you could be an author. Each of those very different professions

00:49:03.040 share one thing in common. And that is they are creating something anew from nothing until the

00:49:09.160 chef came along. That dish didn't exist until the architect came along. That bridge didn't exist until

00:49:14.940 the standup comic came along. That routine didn't exist until the professor came along. That book didn't

00:49:20.860 exist. When I start writing a book, I open my laptop. I opened the word document. There is not a single

00:49:26.720 typed word yet. 12, 14 months later, voila, I pressed the send button and it's sent to my publisher.

00:49:36.540 A year later, people send me selfies sitting on a beach in Costa Rica reading that book. That's a very

00:49:43.140 magical process, that creative process. It went from my brain to the laptop to your brain. God, that's

00:49:51.160 beautiful. So all other things equal, if you could immerse yourself in the creative impulse

00:49:56.620 it's great. The second thing, if you could have what I call temporal freedom, meaning I work very long

00:50:04.540 hours, but I'm not bound to a schedule. If right now I feel like talking to you, I set it up. If later I

00:50:11.640 want to set up a meeting with my graduate student, I set it up. If I would then want to go to a cafe

00:50:16.200 and knock out 750 words on my next book, I do it. So I'm constantly working, but I am a vagabond.

00:50:24.580 I am moving around from thing to thing. That gives me a great sense of temporal freedom. Whereas

00:50:30.680 compare that, say, to even a pilot. Once those doors close and we're going from Montreal to Singapore,

00:50:38.500 my fate is sealed for the next 16 hours. I can't vagabond around. So I say, if possible,

00:50:45.400 if you can instantiate your creative impulse and have some sort of temporal freedom,

00:50:50.760 boy, you're going to be happy occupationally. All right. Great. Well, I look forward to

00:50:55.960 the book. I can honestly say I've got two of the eight. It sounds like I have a really great marriage

00:51:03.760 and I've had many careers, but I've been able to find happiness in them or move on from them. I'm not

00:51:10.800 a tree. So if I don't want to put down roots, I don't put down roots, but it has led to a good life

00:51:17.620 and having my family has led to a good life. I'm going to put a link to the book down below.

00:51:24.820 If it's okay, I'd like to push people to your YouTube as well as your X account

00:51:30.180 so that they can continue to follow you. Professor, thank you so much for coming on. This has been

00:51:37.360 a great conversation. I can see why Joe Rogan wants to talk to you for two or three hours

00:51:43.540 at a time, but I value your time and want to be respectful, but thank you again for coming on.

00:51:50.680 Thank you, sir. Great to be with you. Cheers.

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - June 12, 2024

Biden has CREATED A DANGEROUS WORLD ｜ Dr. Gad Saad (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_683)

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