Discussing Suicidal Empathy on One Nation with Brian Kilmeade (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_994)
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with author and best-selling author Gad Saad to discuss his new book, Dying to Be Kind, and why he thinks we're living in the age of "suicidal empathy" and why it's ruining America.
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So we may think we live in the information age, but we're also living in the age of empathy,
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suicidal empathy, to be more precise. And what exactly does that mean? Suicidal empathy is a
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tragic manifestation at the civilization level of the well-known proverb, the road to hell is
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paved with good intentions. And it's that sentiment that is destroying Democratic-run
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cities and states. I'm pro stealing from big corporations because, you know, they steal quite
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a bit more from workers. Congresswoman Porter, your thoughts on the idea of funding health care
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for undocumented immigrants statewide? Yes. Thank you for joining the call to get ice out of our
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cities for us to dismantle this department that is not just rogue, but unlawful.
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Joining us now, the author of a brand new book, Suicidal Empathy, bestseller. It's Dying to be
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kind. Gad Saad, thanks so much for joining us. I appreciate it. Always good to see you.
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Likewise. Thank you for having me, Brian. I cannot believe you write a book to get a
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perspective on society, but you could rip the news from the headlines that backs up your title.
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First off, I question if there are even good intentions behind some of the empathy that
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we're witnessing. I mean, I think that many of them do truly believe that they are, you know,
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as they stroke their hair in the mirror of moral preening, they think that they are good people.
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It's unfair that illegal immigrants can't come and live the good life in the United States.
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It's unfair that felons don't receive a second chance, ergo 157th chance.
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It's unfair that trans women with penises can't compete with biological women.
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So many of the people that I speak to genuinely believe that the positions that they take
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are rooted in some higher transcendental morality.
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You felt you had to take a step back and figure out what was going on here?
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looked at what happens when our cognitive system is hijacked,
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I have to hijack both your cognitive system and your emotional system.
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So that's exactly what I do in suicidal empathy.
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empathy. I basically argue that I need to get to your affective system in order to truly own your
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capacity to engage in critical thinking. Or they just people rip you as a horrible person. If you
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say to yourself, that's not practical to give everybody health care. It's not practical to
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open up our borders because our car car, uh, our, our country is richer than yours. I want to rip
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something actually from the headlines from a couple of days ago. It's about a 23 year old
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female student who was a victim, and then later acted out, and it cost somebody their lives.
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Quote, I regret it 100%, and I actually feel really bad that a man lost his life.
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Maybe a part of me was just like, I don't want to put another black man in jail, but
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at some point, if you are a criminal, you're a criminal, and he was scary, he was a scary
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And to back it up, essentially, this guy went and killed somebody, but assaulted her first,
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and she didn't press charges to turn him in because he was black.
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yeah well this is an incredible story of course and had it happened a bit earlier it would have
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made it to my book but i've got a story that's even much wilder than the one that you just
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discussed i discuss in the book a story of a super progressive liberal white woman who decides to go
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down to haiti to demonstrate that this stereotype of the violent black man simply does not hold
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true. And she finds out when reality slaps her that she's taken up to the top of a rooftop and
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repeatedly raped by a Haitian man. At the end of which she concludes, she wrote this in an actual
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essay, that she was thankful for what he did to her because ultimately it demonstrated that it
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was white supremacy that caused the black man to rape the white woman. That's what suicidal
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empathy looks like brian it's crazy uh i gotta have an excerpt from your book and then maybe
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you could comment on it once the suicidal empathy of socialism is coupled with the degeneracy of a
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woke ideology you're no longer a free and dignified human being but an empathetic worker
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ant slaving for a greater goal because yeah yeah so let me tell you where that comes from so
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E.O. Wilson, the Harvard biologist who studied social ants, gave one of the best answers to
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the following question. Professor Wilson, what are your views on communism? And he said,
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great idea, wrong species, meaning that social ants are communistic because there's a reproductive
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queen and then the rest of the ants are interchangeable cogs in the wheel, right?
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There are worker ants and warrior ants, completely interchangeable.
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Human beings, some of us are taller, shorter, harder working, less harder working, more assertive, less assertive.
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So to try to impose a sociopolitical economic system, in this case communism or socialism, on a species that is hierarchical will always fail as the data has shown it over and over again.
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And we should also realize, too, I mean, people should have compassion.
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But it's got to be logical and it's got to be rooted in some type of end goal, right?
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Therefore, part of the way that we engage in a lubricant of our sociality is to be empathetic towards each other.
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But like Aristotle explained to us several thousand years ago, all good things in moderation.
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Too much empathy invoked at the wrong circumstances towards the wrong target results in civilizational collapse.
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By the way, I'm sure it helps sales when Elon Musk says everyone's got to buy this book,
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Suicidal Empathy, Free the Wolves, Dying to be Kind.