I have spent my entire academic career studying human behavior and human decision making, and yet I am astounded by this level of suicidal stupidity. It takes a lot to surprise me because I ve literally written the book on parasitic thinking, and of course my forthcoming book on suicidal empathy. But to just see every day the kinds of reactions that I see from Canadians.
00:00:00.200Hi everybody, this is Gatsad. I wanted to read for you a post that I put up yesterday on my social media, which Elon Musk was kind enough to repost, which of course then gets a lot of additional attention.
00:00:22.280So thank you, Elon, for that. Let me read you the post.
00:00:24.740My daughter's class is going on a school trip to New York City. Many of the parents are incredibly upset that the school would visit the United States where there is a, quote, daily genocide of women, trans people, and people of color, close quotes.
00:00:41.680The parents are not upset of what is happening in Canada or that Zoran Mamdani is going to become mayor of New York City.
00:00:49.340They are terrified for their children's safety because of Donald Trump.
00:00:54.820I have spent my entire academic career studying human behavior and human decision making, and yet I'm astounded by this level of suicidal stupidity.
00:01:04.520It takes a lot to surprise me. I'm just going to close here the thing.
00:01:09.560It takes a lot to surprise me because I've literally written the book on, right here, on parasitic thinking, and of course my forthcoming book on suicidal empathy.
00:01:20.260But to just see every day the kinds of reactions that I see from Canadians.
00:01:27.020By the way, some of you may not know or remember that this year I'm on a leave of absence from my university in Canada,
00:01:36.740and I'm a scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at Ole Miss,
00:01:43.940which has been so far an unbelievable experience.
00:01:47.760When I tell people that I'm at Ole Miss, you literally get this horrified thing because, you know,
00:01:55.900everywhere in Mississippi apparently, you know, they're lynching.
00:03:13.640What what could make you be so detached, so decoupled from reality that my daughter's class is going to a beautiful school trip to New York City,
00:03:28.380and there has to be a whole meeting to discuss the dangers to trans people, trans people of color, to what if one of the kids has an immediate need to have an abortion?
00:03:43.340And now they can't anymore because Donald Trump is eradicating the rights of women.
00:03:55.780Every single day, I start the new day with renewed hope, with renewed vigor, with renewed, you know, energy to fight the tsunami of lunacy.
00:04:10.540But it's like the phoenix that rises from the ashes.