The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - Growing up in Lebanon, October 7th, & the future of the West (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_667)

00:00:00.000 thank you so much for joining us Dr. Gadsad a man who needs no introduction obviously everybody

00:00:18.940 already knows you I'm the popular one today for bringing you on to my podcast everybody's like

00:00:24.320 oh my god I'm so happy for you they don't realize that we're old chums that we're old friends

00:00:30.120 I we are old friends and it was so good to finally meet you in person how long has it been now maybe

00:00:36.020 two years ago you came to Montreal yes that's right it has been gosh it's been that long already

00:00:42.400 but that was so great for you to make some time to come meet with me and to have that

00:00:46.920 lovely cappuccino together that's right I was there yesterday you you were missed I was at exactly the

00:00:53.600 same cafe that you and I went to just like yesterday afternoon that's a great cafe um so yeah

00:01:00.900 and even before that I came on to the sad truth you're one of the very first people to invite me

00:01:06.200 on actually onto their platform and to give me a voice so I'm always going to be forever grateful

00:01:12.160 for that my pleasure um yeah and we you know we have an understanding you and I because you grew up

00:01:22.040 in Lebanon of course till you're about 10 years old or so which I'm going to ask you about that in a bit

00:01:27.380 more detail um and then of course with my family being from Egypt and you know well I lived in Egypt

00:01:33.700 for a few years and my dad being Palestinian we you know it's all a sham right like it's all we're we're 0.95

00:01:40.940 very familiar with that part of the world um and we have that connection and then of course we're both

00:01:46.860 Canadian as well so both our backgrounds and our current grounds are are very similar but tell us

00:01:53.380 about growing up in Lebanon what was that like I've heard a few stories before and I'd love for you to

00:01:57.620 share some with us here today sure well first thank you so much for having me on it's a real pleasure to

00:02:03.640 be with you and to everybody else out there thanks for joining us um I was born in Lebanon we were part

00:02:10.140 of the last remaining very small community of Jews not Druze Jews J-E-W-S uh who who were in my in Lebanon 0.99

00:02:22.780 uh some of my ancestors my immediate ancestors come also from Syria they're Syrian Jews but my parents

00:02:30.140 and my family my siblings were all Lebanese and probably at the time that the civil war broke out

00:02:37.660 in 1975 when as you said I was 10 there were well less than a thousand Jews that had remained most of

00:02:46.100 my extended family had already sort of read the the writing on the proverbial wall and left Lebanon 0.99

00:02:54.480 earlier prior to the civil war but we had remained we were really well entrenched within Lebanese society

00:03:00.320 and then the the civil war broke out in uh 1975 and as many of you may or may not know uh you know

00:03:09.500 all butchery in wars is in a sense measured against the backdrop of the Lebanese civil war because it

00:03:16.780 it was a civil war involving many factors but certainly a religious element uh it became very very difficult

00:03:25.980 to be Jewish in Lebanon I mean death awaited you in every corner of you know every minute of the day

00:03:33.780 miraculously we were able to escape we actually escaped through uh having PLO militiamen pick us up

00:03:44.580 at the at our house and then drive us to the uh Beirut International Airport and the reason why we had to get

00:03:53.580 PLO militia at the time is because the area surrounding the Beirut International Airport

00:04:00.760 was uh controlled by PLO militia so there was no way that you were going to get through the

00:04:07.260 the roadblocks the barricades if they weren't sympathetic to your cause so

00:04:12.080 I always like to remind people that you know we escaped Muslims who wanted to kill us but we were also

00:04:19.620 saved by other Muslims who saved us so this is why I never you know talk about individual Muslims

00:04:26.620 I sure need to have to say this but it's important to remind people there are nice and evil people of

00:04:32.680 of all faiths and no faiths so then we left Montreal we left Beirut in 1975 I had turned already 11

00:04:40.800 a couple of weeks prior to us leaving we moved to Montreal but then my parents kept returning

00:04:47.840 to Lebanon ill-advisedly so because they still had some business interests they would leave Montreal

00:04:54.160 go back straight into the Beirut civil war and on one of those return trips uh in 1980 they were

00:05:02.520 kidnapped by Fatah which is another Palestinian group and some really bad things were uh you know done to

00:05:10.560 them but luckily we were I say we but I had nothing to do with it at that point I was like 15 years

00:05:15.380 15 years old but my family and through their through our parents's connections we were able to

00:05:21.440 get them out uh and so since 1980 uh no one in my family has returned even though you know as as I

00:05:29.500 became a you know a you know a public figure uh I would get invited many times back to Lebanon even

00:05:36.500 you know in at the level of prime ministers and so on but I've never felt safe to go back even though

00:05:43.780 I was guaranteed oh there'd be security and so on you know a a car bomb doesn't care if there's

00:05:48.360 security around you so I wish I could go back because I probably the main thing that I regret

00:05:54.340 most so far as a parent is that our children don't speak Arabic so Arabic is my mother tongue they

00:06:02.560 don't speak Hebrew uh and so despite all this incredible richness that we have in the family

00:06:08.900 my wife also speaks Armenian they only speak French and English and I I've always dreamt of being able

00:06:14.420 to you know going back to American University of Beirut and doing a one or two year visiting

00:06:19.400 professorship immersing my children in Arabic and suddenly they become you know flawless Arabic

00:06:24.300 speakers so all this to say uh it's a tragic part of my past I wish I could return but such is the

00:06:30.960 reality of life my gosh well Lebanon is still quite a mess so it's you know it's not like there's been 0.99

00:06:40.260 an opportunity for you to to take your kids there and have that you know American University of Beirut

00:06:46.260 dream come true um but I want to ask you specifically like just drill down a little bit more about what you

00:06:55.880 were saying about the difficulties of being a Jewish family in in Lebanon can you talk to us a little

00:07:04.160 bit more about that oh sure thanks for asking so it's important for people to contextualize what it

00:07:12.860 means to be Jewish in the Middle East and more specifically in the context of progressive modern

00:07:19.840 Lebanon and I say that with with that inflection in my voice because it's progressive and tolerant

00:07:26.480 against the backdrop of the Middle East right so you're tolerated as long as you don't wear your star

00:07:33.280 of David too too largely you're tolerated as long as you don't make too much noise and of course we

00:07:40.380 reserve the right to not tolerate you whenever we decide you're no longer tolerable and so growing up in

00:07:48.260 Lebanon I and I talk about some of these stories although of course I've got many more that I

00:07:52.620 didn't mention in the book in the parasitic mind and in chapter one of the book I talk about some of

00:07:57.960 the uh realities that I faced as a child growing up in Lebanon so I'll share a few with you here and

00:08:04.580 the first one I'm going to share might resonate with you if only because you have a Egyptian background

00:08:09.780 so Gamal Abdel Nasser was a pan-Arabist trying to unify all of the Arab states and uh he was the

00:08:19.160 Egyptian president and he was loved you know he was a charismatic guy he you know he wasn't certainly

00:08:24.380 very religiously motivated but he was unifying all of the Arab nations so there was this great love and

00:08:30.500 fervor for him when he passed away in 1970 at the time I was five not quite six years old I remember

00:08:38.540 there was a you know oftentimes in the Middle East you have these street protests where there is this

00:08:45.000 incredible fervor actually the word Hamas means zeal fervor right so there's a lot of energy and so

00:08:52.860 people are you know lamenting and kind of hitting themselves because he passed away but this is in

00:08:57.580 Beirut Lebanon this is not in Egypt and as people were proceeding down my street I kept hearing you know

00:09:04.840 death to Jews death to Jews and so I was in the balcony and I was confused and I kind of turned to 1.00

00:09:11.100 my mother and she says you know just keep your head down uh because I said well why are they screaming 0.97

00:09:15.900 death to Jews what you know what do we have to do with this but that's the reflex right I mean some 1.00

00:09:19.780 calamity happens in the Middle East first instinctual reflex is you know death to Jews it's probably maybe 0.98

00:09:26.060 the Jews who killed him who put something in his in his water second uh I'll mention two more stories

00:09:33.320 and if you want more I'll share more uh second story is uh I was about maybe nine years old so this is

00:09:41.320 probably about a year before the civil war started and we were in class and uh the teacher asked the class

00:09:49.980 to you know for each person to stand up and tell us what they wish to be when they grow up so one

00:09:57.640 person gets up I want to be a soccer player I want to be a doctor I want to be a policeman I want to be a 0.88

00:10:02.460 soldier and one kid gets up and says when I grow up I want to be a Jew killer to rapturous laugh and 0.52

00:10:10.860 you know screaming and clapping and so on now this that kid knew that I was Jewish but it was totally 0.87

00:10:16.860 normal to say things like that third story uh my brother uh one of my brothers I have two two

00:10:23.780 brothers and a sister all of whom are much older than me uh my brother who's 10 years older than me

00:10:30.160 was a champion of in judo Lebanese champion national champion for several years in a row and so as you

00:10:38.500 might imagine it it didn't look good for a Jew to constantly win in these competitive 1.00

00:10:45.480 things it's making the rest of us non-Jewish people look bad and so he was visited by some men

00:10:53.900 who explained to him that it was time for him to retire because otherwise you know maybe an

00:10:59.120 unfortunate accident can happen to him and so then he didn't he didn't want to quit his career so he then

00:11:05.240 left to France to pursue his judo career this is before the civil war uh now the incredible story

00:11:13.520 the conclusion to that story is that in 1976 the Montreal Olympics happened it just so happened that

00:11:21.660 they were in Montreal and so the guy who left to Paris I think he left in 73 who left Lebanon because

00:11:29.320 it wasn't good for Jews to consistently win this combat sport is then asked to represent Lebanon

00:11:39.480 in the Montreal Olympics which he did so the the guy who was no longer allowed to be a judo champion

00:11:48.600 in Lebanon we could now forgive the fact that you are you know you suffer from the terminal

00:11:54.660 disease of being Jewish when it comes to having you hold the Lebanese flag and that that happened in 1976

00:12:01.480 so that gives you a bit of a flavor of what it was to grow up in tolerant progressive Paris of the

00:12:09.400 Middle East Lebanon you always had to know your place now in terms of the actual war some of the

00:12:16.800 dangers that you faced everybody faced right I mean if you go out there are snipers everywhere they're

00:12:23.000 going to blow your brain whether you're Christian Muslim or I mean depending on the area you're in 1.00

00:12:27.440 the the bombs and the indiscriminate killing can happen to anyone but there were specific dangers 0.98

00:12:34.160 that were unique to being Jewish because in what happens in Lebanon is you you carry an internal ID

00:12:40.640 which in Arabic is called Hawi it's like a passport but it's an internal so if the cop stops you and says

00:12:47.360 show me your papers you show them this paper well the the ID card in Lebanon the most conspicuous part

00:12:54.400 of the ID card is your religion and the Jews weren't even called even though we're Lebanese right we're

00:13:00.720 we're Arabic right it wasn't even written in Arabic Yahudi which means you know Jewish it was written

00:13:07.280 Israeli which means Israelite so so then there's even more animus because you're you're not really

00:13:13.840 Lebanese you're Israelite right even though we had nothing to do with Israel and so why is that

00:13:20.080 important because one of the ways that people got killed in in the thousands early in the civil war

00:13:26.720 is that if you were driving anywhere and there was a random roadblock that was set up by some

00:13:32.960 militia group and there were many militia groups right different Islamic groups there were some

00:13:37.760 Christian groups and so on well if they asked for those papers and you had Israeli there weren't many

00:13:46.080 roadblocks that you were going to get out of without a bullet to your head so we really couldn't I mean

00:13:50.560 it was very dangerous to just go and pick up bread because you don't want somebody to ask for your ID

00:13:56.160 papers and so hopefully that gives you a bit of the the timber of my existence in Lebanon wow yeah that's a

00:14:04.960 lot that's a lot I mean I I I'd heard your story before about you being a child in school and and that boy

00:14:16.720 saying I want to kill Jews and you know your father yourself and I'm a mother and just knowing like just 1.00

00:14:26.480 to have a kid have to hear this amongst their classmates or to hear as a child 0.99

00:14:34.400 what was it curse the Jews kill the Jews you know how did your mother respond to you when you said

00:14:40.400 mom what's going on you know because that's a really difficult yeah it you know it you really

00:14:47.200 you knew that you were different you knew that you there was a secret about you now it it wasn't so

00:14:55.200 secretive in that no one in Lebanon knew we were Jewish of course people knew all they had to do was

00:15:01.200 go to the synagogue on Saturday morning and then they would know you're Jewish so it's but you had to 0.90

00:15:07.680 know your place right which by the way this might interest some people that's exactly the the psychology of

00:15:14.880 someone who's a dimmi right a dimmi is someone who lives in Islamic lands who is part of the people

00:15:22.000 of the book typically Christians or Jews who might be protected and tolerated but know your place now

00:15:29.040 depending on the historical context your dimmi status could be really brutal or it could be that

00:15:34.720 just know your place you know when when you've won too many consecutive Lebanese judo championships well

00:15:40.640 it's enough already okay so so my what my mother always taught me is that you know be just be

00:15:48.640 careful don't you know know that we're Jewish don't be too Jewish but now I'm glad you asked me that

00:15:55.600 question because there's another story that I would have forgotten to mention to our audience today which

00:16:00.480 I do discuss in the parasitic mine the day that we left Lebanon and actually took the flight out so we

00:16:09.840 we went from Beirut we actually landed in Copenhagen for a night night stop so we slept in Copenhagen and

00:16:18.400 then we made our way from Copenhagen to Montreal when we first moved to Montreal well as we cleared the

00:16:26.480 airspace of Lebanon the captain the pilot said that we had just cleared the Lebanese airspace and so my

00:16:34.080 mother takes out a a pendulant with a star of David David right and she puts it around my neck and she

00:16:44.080 says now you could wear it proudly and not hide your identity so that already is I think a rather uh you

00:16:52.320 know a powerful story but let me close the circle on the on the star of David a few months ago in I think

00:17:01.920 it was a few weeks after the October 7th uh situation my wife and son so my son had just played a soccer

00:17:12.880 match in the east end of the city and they were coming back and she had texted me saying hey do you want

00:17:19.600 me to pick you up I was I was working on my laptop at a cafe at another cafe not too far from the one

00:17:24.480 that you and I went to and so as they picked me up and we entered the car my son said hey daddy if you

00:17:32.560 would have come uh to watch me play soccer where I was playing today and you were wearing a star of David

00:17:39.920 you'd be dead this was in Montreal Canada in 2023 so in 1975 I leave Lebanon and a star of David is put

00:17:53.920 around me 45 plus years later I better take off that star of David in Montreal Canada that doesn't bode too

00:18:01.840 well no it absolutely does not and that actually is one of the reasons why I wanted to talk to you

00:18:09.840 today because you're somebody obviously from everything that you've just told us now you're

00:18:15.200 somebody with first-hand knowledge of this you know you've written books you know talking the parasitic

00:18:21.080 mind being one of them you have the the sad truth where you're speaking about these issues not just these

00:18:27.200 issues but so many other issues of where people's minds are just you know possessed with with different

00:18:32.880 absurdities um and now after October 7th you're seeing that things have escalated so dangerously

00:18:43.200 in Canada obviously you know the U.S. and the West in general but Canada specifically Montreal where you

00:18:49.360 live is probably one of the the worst cities in our country for how things just it's like a

00:18:57.920 it's like the Kindle was all sitting there and then on October 7th it just lit you know and

00:19:03.280 everything was just ready to go and for a lot of people I'm sure they they probably got whiplash they

00:19:11.440 probably just were just shocked um but you're somebody who has been talking about this for years you've

00:19:18.000 been talking about the dangers of capitulating to extremism and I this is probably a really difficult

00:19:26.000 question to ask you but how frustrating does it feel right now because I'm sure you don't feel like

00:19:30.560 vindicated like I'm sure it must what how are you feeling how are you feeling now seeing that your

00:19:36.880 your voice has been falling on deaf ears all these years and now things have come to this grotesque fruition

00:19:44.640 that maybe is even beyond what you what you would have imagined yeah thank you for that question uh

00:19:50.960 uh it's I think I don't know if you mentioned in your question the word frustration but that's

00:19:56.480 exactly what it is it's a form of you know deep existential frustration because the reality is as

00:20:04.000 you said exactly to your point it's not as though I'm sitting and going gleefully hey look I was right 0.91

00:20:10.080 please pat me on my back I'm right it's I'm like god damn it I wish people would have listened because 0.58

00:20:16.720 I mean the the best way to describe it is you know god forbid is uh the cancer analogy right I mean 0.54

00:20:23.840 you you can capture cancer very early and you've got a 96 percent uh cure rate you can catch it a bit

00:20:31.840 later that percentage goes down or you can ignore all the signals and it's good luck to you in the

00:20:37.360 afterlife you're gone that's exactly what's happening to the west and I I put out a tweet not the one I know

00:20:44.960 that there's a tweet that you recently sent me privately that that had touched you a lot but

00:20:48.960 there's an earlier tweet about a couple of weeks after october 7th where I I shared really kind of a

00:20:55.040 a somber outlook of how I thought the west would end up being and I mean it's something that I've

00:20:59.840 mentioned in the past but it was really a very powerful tweet that I think got I don't know how

00:21:03.920 many 15 20 million views and a lot of people were kind of awakened by that tweet because they always

00:21:10.400 associate me even when I'm dealing with very difficult subjects with being someone super

00:21:15.840 optimistic I'm a fighter I'm a I'm the happy warrior and yet here I seem right and I seem like

00:21:23.280 I think it's all over pack it up and the reason again to to draw on the cancer analogy imagine if your

00:21:30.320 physician tells you you have cancer and you say well as a matter of fact there is no such thing as cancer 0.68

00:21:35.680 you're you're wrong you're spreading conspiracies but if there is cancer it's the Jews who are causing 1.00

00:21:41.520 cancer and it's the Jews who are holding the uh the cure to cancer and therefore the way I'm going to 1.00

00:21:49.920 react to you telling me I have cancer is I'm going to inhale asbestos smoke six packs of cigarettes a day 0.92

00:21:56.480 and you know inject other carcinogens into my veins because I don't believe that there is cancer but if 0.78

00:22:03.200 there is cancer it's the Jews that's exactly what the west is doing if at least you would think that 1.00

00:22:08.560 there is a sense of epistemic humility in the west whereby they're saying oh I think we now recognize

00:22:15.680 that there is a problem it may be too late to fix it but at least we you know the old proverbial

00:22:21.520 first step is recognize that you have a problem then maybe we have a fighting chance if what your response

00:22:26.800 is let's double down on everything we're doing and hopefully the problem that surely doesn't exist

00:22:33.120 will go away well then how can how can we fight so yes I definitely feel a a sense of dejection I'm

00:22:40.720 not going to say defeat because then there's no there'd be no point in us having this conversation

00:22:46.160 there'd be no point in us waking up there'd be no point in me writing the books so I still think that

00:22:51.920 we do have a fighting chance but the the likelihood of this being resolved without unbelievable violence

00:22:59.840 down the line is reducing by the day and it's not hyperbole you know it's as clear as dropping a ball

00:23:06.880 and having gravity react to the ball we if I drop a ball a hundred times the same things will happen

00:23:13.600 the ball will fall to the ground because there's this thing called gravity people will wake up and

00:23:20.000 people will decide that they've had enough and when they do that it won't be through talking and dialogue

00:23:26.880 it will be through violence and what a shame because the west had this anomaly in in in throughout our

00:23:34.800 history which is for a bleep in human history the west had had created something that nowhere else

00:23:42.000 had you found freedom of speech freedom of conscience individual dignity all of the things that made the west

00:23:49.760 great we decided that we're going to give them away because of these parasitic ideas of empathy and so

00:23:56.960 on it's tragic it's horrible now I haven't read your latest book yet the sad truth about happiness but I

00:24:03.680 remember when we were chatting about it a couple years ago um it was it was going to be an optimistic you

00:24:11.360 are generally a very optimistic person as you know even when things are as dark as they are you're tweeting

00:24:17.600 jokes you're making it's sarcastic it's biting it's very you know they're sharp criticisms but they're

00:24:24.800 always you know wrapped in this sort of tongue-in-cheek um you know sarcastic manner so it kind of lessens

00:24:33.520 the blow of whatever's going on um it is really I do remember those days when it was very clear that you

00:24:42.160 were feeling just despondent and there's no surprise I mean I wasn't it's no surprise at all like I

00:24:48.160 mentioned you're in one of the worst places in Canada you're watching history repeat itself I had

00:24:54.320 friends from New York from all over Europe from all over Canada from all over the world writing to me

00:25:03.920 telling me the exact same thing you know it was I remember even around Hanukkah some friends were saying

00:25:10.160 like maybe we're just not going to put out any celebration you know anything this year like

00:25:15.760 we're not we're going to make sure that we're not so visibly Jewish very similar to the way you had to 1.00

00:25:21.680 be in Lebanon um and it is incredibly heartbreaking to see this happen in really such a short amount of

00:25:32.240 time you know I was just in Israel and I was visiting Holocaust memorial you know Yad Vashem in Jerusalem

00:25:40.160 and I'm planning on going to the March of the Living um visiting Auschwitz and it's just so similar when you 1.00

00:25:47.760 watch the slow you know the just it starts off with just conspiracy theories and you know just little

00:25:58.000 bits of stories and then you know it just escalates bit by bit by bit by bit and then even this

00:26:05.680 demonizing or this dehumanization that's in a joking manner like when you talked about your

00:26:11.280 that I'm not gonna call him your friend but that student in your class um and then everybody laughed

00:26:18.000 about it like it was a joke like you know all that all that kind of stuff is just so incredibly

00:26:23.120 dangerous and we ignored it for years and years and years and we didn't think that it was going to

00:26:27.680 amount to anything and then here we are watching history repeat itself I am not surprised that people

00:26:33.360 were feeling despondent and depressed and especially Jewish people were actually feeling quite afraid

00:26:39.600 too when you have people screaming gas the Jews you know people screaming burn Tel Aviv to the ground

00:26:47.040 asking Hamas to make us proud you know all sorts of horrible things that have you can criticize Israel 0.85

00:26:54.800 from today till the cows come home say whatever you want about Netanyahu but these people are clearly

00:27:01.920 clearly anti-semitic following the exact same tropes the exact same pathway as the Nazis and Hamas and all the rest

00:27:11.360 and we're we're hearing the exact same rhetoric on the the universities um all across the United States

00:27:18.560 today so my question to you is about the truth about happiness the sad truth about happiness what can

00:27:26.080 what can you what sad truth about happiness do you have to share with us about this current situation right well you

00:27:32.480 know it's funny because uh you know oftentimes when I write books I could have told you that that idea had been

00:27:41.520 simmering in my head for years before I wrote that book so for example the parasitic mind is a result of

00:27:48.000 me having been in academia for close to three decades so then when I came to write the book I mean it's

00:27:54.080 basically recounting all the insanity that I've seen in nearly three decades with all of these parasitic

00:28:00.400 ideas which start on campus but then they they become the Canadian prime minister right so but but the happiness

00:28:07.280 book was actually one that if you would have asked me three years ago or four years ago when say the

00:28:13.920 parasitic mind came out hey what's your next top what's what do you think your next book is going to be

00:28:18.960 on I wouldn't have told you it was the happiness book what happened with the happiness book is that

00:28:24.240 I saw many people writing to me and saying what you always seem to be playful and having fun even as

00:28:33.360 you said when you're tackling difficult subjects and you're such a funny guy what what's your secret

00:28:39.040 what's your secret to happiness so that was one and then second I noticed that oftentimes whenever I would

00:28:44.560 post some advice on my social media which to me seemed rather obvious advice like assume personal

00:28:52.400 responsibility get off the couch you can do it you know stuff that people have only been saying for

00:28:57.360 thousands of years people would respond incredibly positively to that number one because they trust me

00:29:04.960 number two you know because I've got the right credentials and so on and so I thought well wait a minute if

00:29:10.320 people seem to have such a longing for hey what's your secret to happiness and how you live life

00:29:15.680 maybe I can have the actual audacity of trying to take a shot at writing such a book the reason why I say

00:29:22.320 audacity is because of all possible topics that philosophers have written about through

00:29:29.280 millennia the the topic that's most been covered is how to live the good life and so I was very worried

00:29:37.040 about whether I could write a book that was that offered something unique and so I think the way that

00:29:43.600 I was able to do that is that I took some ancient wisdoms about the good life you know here comes

00:29:49.040 Epictetus here comes Aristotle here comes Seneca here comes Marcus Aurelius all these are all guys

00:29:55.840 that have written extensively about the good life I then back it up with the latest contemporary science

00:30:02.000 and neuroscience and happiness psychology and positive psychology and behavioral sciences coupled

00:30:09.120 with my own personal trajectory of happiness which is unique to me it's my life and then put together

00:30:15.680 hopefully you get a good book uh regrettably though so far I mean it's I mean it's done it's done well

00:30:21.600 in that you know compared to the average book that is published it's done well but it actually did not

00:30:28.960 do nearly as well so far although the the paperback is coming out on May 14th it hasn't done nearly as well

00:30:36.560 as parasitic mind and I don't know the exact reason for that one reason could be that people associate me a lot

00:30:42.960 more with someone who's trying to uh you know fight all of these bad ideas so once I wrote about

00:30:48.480 happiness maybe it didn't but but the reality is I am a very happy person there are some really good

00:30:54.160 insights and if you'd like I can share a few of them with you about how well yeah I think that's a good

00:30:59.040 idea because people could really use that insight right now so in one of the early chapters I talk about

00:31:05.680 the two decisions that are most likely to impart the greatest amount of happiness or misery depending

00:31:13.280 on whether you make a good decision or not and uh now what I'm the decision I'm going to say you might

00:31:18.800 say well yeah no kidding duh but again I back it up with with real uh psychological and scientific

00:31:24.960 insights so number one that the person that you choose to spend your life with your spouse choice is

00:31:31.680 is fundamentally important because if I wake up every morning and the person next to me is one 0.85

00:31:37.440 that I either go yes I can't believe I'm waking up next to this person or you go oh god damn I'm waking

00:31:42.640 up next to this person uh that's already going to determine my existential trajectory now if I return to

00:31:50.000 that person at night after working and I have either one or the other of course that's going to affect my

00:31:55.280 happiness and then in between I'm going off to to work and if I'm if I'm at a place of work that

00:32:02.960 brings me great purpose and meaning uh then I I've won the happiness lottery so then the question becomes

00:32:09.520 the devil is in the details how can you ensure that you choose the right spouse and the right job

00:32:14.800 and here I explained very early in the book unlike the typical self-help book that says here are the eight

00:32:22.400 eight prescriptions to do this and the seven and I guarantee you success I basically I'm a lot more

00:32:29.360 you know uh humble in my sales pitch I say look life is about navigating statistical minefields

00:32:38.000 and all I can do is offer you prescriptions that increase the odds of you finding happiness right I

00:32:43.920 can't guarantee it right because again each trajectory will result in a different outcome so

00:32:48.880 I'll I'll give a few prescriptions about choosing the right job and choosing the right spouse so in

00:32:54.560 evolutionary psychology there are two opposing maxims when it comes to mate choice either birds of a

00:33:00.320 feather flock together or opposites attract and your audience may or may not be surprised to know that

00:33:07.600 if you're looking for maximizing your chances of long-term success of a marriage then it's overwhelmingly

00:33:15.040 the case that birds of a feather flock together the question becomes flocking on which feathers is it

00:33:20.560 that we have to have the same eye color or the same haircut and of course it's not it's we really have to

00:33:25.600 have fundamentally shared foundational values same belief systems same at right those are really important

00:33:34.240 if I am a dogged you know orthodox jewish practitioner and you are a caustic atheist well yes maybe love 1.00

00:33:44.640 conquers all but you're certainly putting the statistical odds against your marriage working

00:33:50.320 so birds of a feather truly do flock together opposites attract works well for a short-term you know

00:33:57.600 dalliance behind the bushes I may be sexually restrained you may be sexually uh outgoing that

00:34:04.720 complementarity might lead to a nice get-together but for long-term union birds of a feather flock together

00:34:11.680 when it comes to finding the optimal job so I argue that there are two things that you can do that can again augment

00:34:20.320 your chances number one if all other things equal if you can find a job that allows you to instantiate your creative

00:34:28.480 impulse now that could mean many things a chef creates an architect creates a podcaster creates a stand-up comic

00:34:37.120 creates a professor and author creates all of these folks are in completely different domains but what's

00:34:43.360 happening is until they came along the bridge didn't exist the stand-up comedy routine didn't exist the book

00:34:51.520 didn't exist the the plate of culinary art didn't exist and so there is something unique in terms of

00:34:59.600 finding purpose and meaning when you create something out of nothing right so I always think to myself

00:35:04.240 you know I I say you know I'm I'm gonna open my laptop now and I'm going to open my word document and

00:35:11.840 right now there isn't a single letter that I've written in my next book and then one day after 12 14 16

00:35:21.680 months of very hard work I will hit the send button and I will send it off to the publisher and then a year

00:35:29.520 later people will send me selfies of them sitting at a beach in Dubai reading that book that has nothing

00:35:37.600 to do with money that I make off the sale of that book the feeling of satisfaction that I get the sense

00:35:43.200 of purpose and meaning I get of someone who's sitting in Dubai at the beach could have chosen 9 000 other

00:35:51.760 things to do that day and yet somehow my book one my god that's that's an incredible privilege so number

00:36:00.000 one all other things equal if you can find a job that allows you to create you're well on your way

00:36:06.800 to being occupationally happy the second one is I call it uh temporal freedom so I work very very long

00:36:15.840 days I I work very very hard but I feel as though I'm never working because I really am an intellectual

00:36:22.880 entrepreneur short of having to be teaching a course at a particular time on a particular day or having

00:36:28.960 a departmental meeting I'm just a vagabond I'm off to some cafe now to work for three hours on this next

00:36:34.960 paper I'm working on then I'm having a great chat with Yasmin on her show then I'm going to go off and

00:36:40.880 start thinking about some of the structure for my next book and by having that temporal freedom

00:36:47.520 I feel very fulfilled now compare that to say someone who works in the factory line where they

00:36:53.360 don't even have the dignity to choose when they can take a bathroom break it's union mandated at 10 15

00:37:00.160 you get a five minute bathroom break and at 12 you so if possible if you can hit those two marks

00:37:08.160 you're going to be happy and if you want me to give you other prescriptions I can go ahead but I'll

00:37:11.760 see the floor back to you I just thought it was really interesting the the one that you started

00:37:16.240 with and then you know both of them because they really lead to each other because if you didn't have

00:37:21.040 your wife to be the support for you then you wouldn't be able to have this freedom that you're speaking of 0.79

00:37:27.440 so 100 chose the right bird of the right feather or she did hopefully both and that allowed you to

00:37:36.160 have yeah so that so that's that's really beautiful that um you know that that worked out for you so

00:37:42.640 nicely and hopefully your book will will speak to so many people and we'll we'll allow them to also

00:37:48.320 um you know make good decisions for their future happiness um I'm gonna ask Ellen Abrams to unmute 1.00

00:37:56.400 herself because she has a good question for you guys go ahead Ellen hi so again um thank you so much

00:38:04.640 already um so enriching and and heartening um and my question is that my daughter graduated from

00:38:13.360 McGill she's in her mid-30s now and even while she was in university she would come home sometimes 0.97

00:38:19.760 and I would be aghast and and remarked to her uh you've drunk the kool-aid and this was about various

00:38:27.440 things but uh you know to my um regret now I didn't pursue it further didn't enter into conversations

00:38:36.960 with her so um her uh what I'm wondering is if you have any recommendations for parents for how to

00:38:47.840 speak with our children she's very focused on Gaza Palestine and is not seeing the bigger picture but

00:38:56.480 she's even having trouble really parsing that out and she's thoughtful she's intelligent um but we've

00:39:02.960 gotten to the point where I've just said okay this is a no-go area for us we can't talk about it um so

00:39:12.320 is there yes no I get it thank you uh so so I'm gonna give you first an optimistic answer and then

00:39:22.160 there's a small shred of possible pessimism okay uh so we'll navigate through both possibilities so in

00:39:29.680 chapter seven of uh the parasitic mind I have a chapter titled how to seek truth and and forgive

00:39:38.000 me it's it's going to be a bit of a slightly longer answer but I'm going to get to a final conclusion

00:39:44.240 in the chapter on how to seek truth I offer an epistemological tool to establish how do you know that

00:39:53.840 something is true so if I want to demonstrate that uh for example uh toy preferences have a sex

00:40:00.960 specificity because of biology right most social scientists think that the reason why Johnny plays

00:40:07.600 with trucks and the reason why Linda plays with dolls is because of you know sexist gender role 1.00

00:40:14.400 socialization from the parents okay and I want to come along and prove to you no there are actually

00:40:20.320 clear biological and evolutionary reasons why those sex specific toy preferences exist so how am I going

00:40:27.280 to do that how am I going to demonstrate the the veracity of my position well I'm going to build

00:40:34.560 what I call a nomological network of cumulative evidence which is a fancy way of saying I'm going to

00:40:40.800 amass as many distinct lines of evidence in support of my position so I won't build the whole network here

00:40:48.480 but I'll give you enough of it so that you get a sense of how you would go about doing that

00:40:53.840 so I might show you data from developmental psychology that shows you that children who are

00:40:59.040 too young to be socialized already exhibit those sex specific toy preferences so already that is a

00:41:05.680 very very I mean that's already the death nail on the on the whole story I it's a mic drop I'm done

00:41:11.920 but I'm not going to stop there I can then show you data from across cultures that shows that

00:41:17.840 those exact toy preferences exist in exactly that form I could also bring you data from across eras I

00:41:24.320 could bring you data from ancient Greece and ancient Rome where children depictions on funerary monuments

00:41:31.440 show the little boys and little girls playing with the exact same toys that little boys and little

00:41:36.160 girls play with girls play with today I can get you data from other species I can get you data from vervet monkeys 0.97

00:41:42.640 rhesus monkeys and chimpanzees showing you that they exhibit the same sex specific toy preferences as human

00:41:50.000 infants do so as you can see I am drowning you in a unassailable impossible to debate against tsunami of evidence so

00:42:02.160 so the the optimistic part of my answer so now I'm going to tie it to to your daughter and to anything that one

00:42:08.640 is trying to argue the optimistic part is that as long as you allow me to show you the nomological network

00:42:17.840 of cumulative evidence then I can flip you in other words as long as you come to the right I mean as long as

00:42:24.240 you say I'm willing to have the mind vaccine administered on me then hopefully we can have a

00:42:31.040 valuable exchange the pessimistic part hence you might see where I'm going with this is if you say

00:42:38.000 la la la la la la I don't want to hear it right I'm not taking the mind vaccine well then it's impenetrable right

00:42:46.320 because how can I persuade you of an opposing position if you're not willing to grant me the courtesy of at

00:42:53.440 least laying out the evidence so if your daughter is sufficiently open to having the cumulative the

00:43:04.240 nomological network displayed then she stands a chance if she is so dogged and dogmatic in her

00:43:12.480 anchored position that she doesn't want the vaccine then she's a lost cause now the reason why so one of 1.00

00:43:20.000 the things that I've learned in my long career now in public engagement is I can very quickly gauge

00:43:27.040 whether you are in the former category or in the latter one right life is short and it involves a lot

00:43:34.400 of trade-offs therefore I can't be wasting an hour of my time trying to build a nomological network to

00:43:42.960 someone who's already told me I'm not buying your stuff so you'll have to decide whether your daughter 1.00

00:43:49.920 is redeemable but there is a vaccine whether the person wishes to have it administered or not is a

00:43:55.120 different story and in summary that's why I don't debate Muslims and that's why I don't debate by the way 1.00

00:44:05.040 intelligent design people who say evolution is a Zionist hoax and that's why I don't debate people 0.94

00:44:11.280 who are young earth creationists who say the earth is six thousand years because there is no amount I

00:44:17.040 know that epistemologically we exist in universes that can never intersect I could never show you

00:44:24.960 any evidence that would cause you to change your mind and to your point the hardcore Muslims are never 1.00

00:44:30.240 going so there's no point in people say oh but you're a coward why don't you debate some moronic 1.00

00:44:35.760 extremist Muslim guy because there's there's no way you're going to come around to me right I say 0.99

00:44:41.600 it's a waste of time yeah I just want to jump in before I go and of course Ellen in defense and love of my

00:44:50.560 daughter I cut her more slack than anyone else in the world and even though I do think you're right

00:44:57.440 she's unreachable right now is my qualification for now

00:45:03.920 inshallah as we say it's mixed in with my other daughter stuff and all sorts of stuff but thank you

00:45:11.520 my pleasure Ellen you know what just keep dropping the seeds and then one day 0.98

00:45:17.920 she might she might be ready for that uh vaccine god's talking about yeah thank you um next norm had

00:45:28.240 a good question for you norm go ahead and unmute yourself please

00:45:34.480 yep sorry just unmuting yeah I had two questions I think you were are you referring to the first one

00:45:41.120 uh yes I only saw one so okay you go ahead choose whichever one you prefer yeah it's one thing to uh

00:45:51.280 speak up when you have no loved ones living with you how do you square um bracing violent and aggressive

00:45:58.080 ideologies like radical islamism or wokeism when you know followers of these ideologies are willing and

00:46:06.320 actually do threaten you for speaking up uh your livelihood as well as your life yes so I'm going

00:46:14.480 to answer this oftentimes when I answer in the way I'm about to answer it it kind of uh it's a slap of

00:46:21.520 reality in people's faces do you know those 18 year olds who landed on the normandy beaches

00:46:29.040 do you know that the great majority of them knew that they were going to be mowed down like

00:46:34.160 insignificant mosquitoes yet they fought each other to say yeah yeah I'll go I want to go so in other

00:46:40.320 words there is no war whether it be an ideological war for the soul of the west or an actual physical

00:46:48.240 war that you can be a combatant and yet be guaranteed safety now I'm not saying this in a cavalier way that

00:46:56.320 I don't recognize that people have real concerns about you know their livelihoods and so on but let me

00:47:03.040 share with you what my reality is I can't go to campus without having security who's paying me for

00:47:10.960 that who's giving me the medal of that who's erecting the statue of me for that so boo hoo who that people

00:47:18.080 have things to worry about if you wish to have your societies be free of ideological cancers for your

00:47:27.040 children and grandchildren there's a fight to be had now I understand that different people may

00:47:34.400 modulate the risks that they wish to take as a function of certain realities I get that right even

00:47:40.960 Aristotle to the to a point in my happiness book where I talk about the inverted you too little of 0.96

00:47:47.360 something is not good too much of something is not good and typically the optimal point is some

00:47:52.480 middle sweet spot well Aristotle said that if a soldier is too cowardly it's not good if the soldier

00:48:00.960 is so reckless in his bravery and his uh martyrdom then he's going to die very quickly so there has to

00:48:07.520 be some temperance in the middle so I appreciate that people face real consequences but why don't you

00:48:14.240 tell that to the brave people in the middle east who are willing to take the risks not to lose their job

00:48:20.400 but to lose their heads and yet they speak so no I'm not very sympathetic to people my cortisol level

00:48:28.880 goes through the roof because of the stuff that I have to do even though I have a fun and positive and

00:48:34.400 happy demeanor my blood pressure goes up when someone comes up to me in the street I don't know if they're

00:48:40.880 going to be a friend or a foe so these are all costs that we have to bear and that's why in the last chapter

00:48:48.320 of the parasitic mind I tell people don't diffuse the responsibility onto others right you can decide

00:48:56.240 how much you want to speak and where you want to speak you simply don't have the right to say I will

00:49:02.560 never take a millimeter of risk let Ghat Saad and Yasmin worry about it they're big boys and girls

00:49:10.560 they'll they'll bear the brunt of the risk right it might be you simply challenge your professor

00:49:17.120 politely in class it might be you challenge your friend at the pub who says some inane things about 0.98

00:49:23.040 you know women too can have penises whatever it is you have to at least have the courage at some 0.99

00:49:31.200 point to defend reality and the foundational values of the west if not you're a coward that doesn't 0.99

00:49:37.600 deserve to live in free societies I don't mean you and I don't mean you in particular I'm speaking in

00:49:43.680 general understood and point well taken I think my question was focused on when we have you know

00:49:50.480 like the American sniper movie you see the terrorist holding a drill to his son's head you know it's one

00:49:57.760 thing to put oneself at risk like I see you do is how do you square the danger that can come to your

00:50:03.200 loved ones for speaking up because most of us have love have children and and husband or wife or

00:50:10.720 partner so I'll flip it another way I do what I do precisely out of the love for my children right

00:50:19.040 because my wife has often asked me you have a very busy life as a professor if you did nothing other

00:50:25.680 than your you know your lab work and your scientific work you have a very busy life why do you need to

00:50:31.440 why do you need to be the savior of uh you know I say well because if we didn't have young children

00:50:37.840 and if it was only about us maybe even though it's not part of my personality but maybe I could accept

00:50:43.920 let's just move to Sarasota and and and do paddle boarding and let someone else I've done enough for the 0.82

00:50:49.760 world but I have young children and you have young children if you're not willing to defend them from the

00:50:55.920 monster that's coming down the road well I'm gonna have to stand up and defend them so it's actually

00:51:01.360 paradoxically the opposite of your position yes in the short term my children might be at risk

00:51:06.960 because someone recognizes me with them but I'm doing what I'm doing precisely so that my children

00:51:11.840 can live free in 20 30 50 years got it thank you yeah and if I could add to that really get what you

00:51:21.680 were saying about like just speak up a little bit in conversation in your classrooms with your

00:51:26.480 co-workers or whatever you know just if everybody just did their part a little bit if people were

00:51:31.760 just a little less cowardly then we wouldn't be in this situation the reason why we're in this

00:51:38.400 situation is because of cowardice we've got bullies right now that are bullying us and we are capitulating

00:51:45.760 to them instead of standing up to them exactly if more of us did standing up then it would be safer for

00:51:51.200 all of us can I link what you just said yasmin to one of the most classic and famous psychology

00:51:58.000 studies ever conducted okay it's it's going to be a beautiful segue some of you may or may not know so

00:52:04.080 I'm going to this explain the whole thing because I'm not going to assume that everybody knows it

00:52:07.840 one of the most famous experiments ever conducted in the behavioral sciences is by Solomon Ash and what's

00:52:14.080 these are called the ash conformity experiments and what Solomon Ash did is he basically said I want to

00:52:22.080 see if I'm able to get people to conform to lies that are astronomically obvious because so so do you

00:52:34.160 believe you're lying eyes or do you go ahead with the group right and so what he did is he developed a

00:52:39.520 very simple and elegant experiment I usually explain this at the start of pretty much any

00:52:45.120 course that I teach because I try to explain to my students that good science does not have to be

00:52:49.840 convoluted as a matter of fact some of the most beautiful and elegant science you could explain it

00:52:54.800 to a 10 year old that that's actually the measure of how powerful it is okay so basically imagine this

00:53:00.560 I'm going to put three lines here the three lines are very different in terms of their length line

00:53:06.560 line a is this long line b is this long line c is this long and then I'm going to put a fourth line

00:53:12.720 called x which is the same distance which is the same length as one of the three abc and I'm going to ask

00:53:20.640 people which of the lines abc is the same as x you follow now so let's suppose a is this big

00:53:29.440 right and x is this small so we know for sure absolutely unless you are congenitally blind we 0.97

00:53:39.120 know that that's the wrong answer if people say the right and the correct answer is a they're insane

00:53:46.880 the point of the experiment is to bring in a bunch of people into the lab and then you put them in a

00:53:53.040 line of say eight people in a row and the first seven are really confederates confederates is just

00:53:59.280 a fancy term for they're in on the experiment they're pretending that they are participants

00:54:04.000 but they are part of the experimental manipulation yes and so the reality is that the only real

00:54:10.080 participant is the eighth one but unbeknownst to him or her that the other seven are fake ones so I'm

00:54:16.400 going to start with the first one and say which of the three lines abc is the same as x and remember

00:54:22.720 if I say a it's the unbelievably not same distance right so the first person says a the second person

00:54:30.880 says a the third person says a so as you see that we're going down to that final person as a matter

00:54:38.080 of fact you can go on I think it's probably available on youtube where they actually filmed the experiment

00:54:43.920 now what do you think happens in terms of the non-verbal cues of the eighth person the real 0.99

00:54:52.160 subject when the first person says a the the response is what the fuck right it's what are you insane 0.91

00:55:01.920 then as we go down the real subject is looking around are you guys seeing what I'm seeing 0.99

00:55:08.720 am I insane or are you insane and then by the time we get to the eighth one the body language

00:55:16.480 is crushed they are crushed by the weight of conformity I've literally lectured what I just

00:55:23.840 said maybe 40 million times as I lecture it I still get goosebumps why because that's it that's the whole

00:55:30.800 enchilada you just explained one of the most fundamental features of human nature using an experiment

00:55:37.920 that a seven-year-old understands now not everyone conformed but even as if a single person conformed

00:55:47.040 if now it was a lot more than one but even if one had conformed you'd say how could the world

00:55:53.760 have such a person exist but you could look at it it's a lie so to Yasmin's point so you could see where

00:56:02.000 why I gave that example what happens to people is they look around the world they see what they see

00:56:09.920 they get it the problem is no one speaks so maybe it's only me who's seeing this maybe right so the

00:56:19.680 inaction the cowardice the tepidness of everyone creates a natural ash experiment whereby we're all quiet

00:56:29.680 because we think that if I am the one who speaks out I must be the insane one that's why I tell

00:56:35.600 people activate your inner honey badger again the reason why I say that the honey badger has been

00:56:43.760 ranked as the most ferocious animal in the animal kingdom which is saying a lot there's a lot of

00:56:48.560 ferocious animals it's the size of a small dog and yet it is so ferocious that you can have six adult

00:56:56.880 lions be intimidated by it how could that be well it is because it's insane right it people look at it

00:57:04.720 and or animals look at it and say I'm I'm not messing with that this is this guy's insane well when I say

00:57:10.480 activate your inner honey badger I don't it's not a call to violence right it's not a call to physical

00:57:15.280 violence it's a call to being ferocious and feverish in your defense of reality of common sense of human

00:57:25.280 dignity of reason of liberty be irate be angry don't be cowardly so that's why I say activate

00:57:33.120 your inner honey badger so you're exactly right Yasmin this problem could be resolved by next Tuesday

00:57:38.880 if everybody rose up the problem is I know human nature and I know that they won't rise up they will

00:57:46.960 rise up in 50 years at the cost of 20 million people dying let's hope it doesn't take that long

00:57:55.600 and let's hope the number of casualties is not that high but I agree with your analogy of the dropping the

00:58:01.520 ball I do think that this is going to be something that is you know unpreventable and I think a lot of it

00:58:13.520 has to do with that experiment that you described I would guess that probably about 70 to 80 people

00:58:19.200 conformed like the few people that stand up and say hang on a minute what do you mean men can get

00:58:24.440 pregnant or hang on a minute what do you mean Islam is the religion of peace whatever it is that's the 0.95

00:58:30.600 that's the the current nonsense that we're trying to convince people of and especially when you're in a

00:58:37.320 university situation where you feel so insecure and you're there to learn and then your professors

00:58:43.400 are sharing this stuff and telling you this stuff so you already feel that sense of like well they must

00:58:50.240 know what they're talking about they're the ones with the doctorates I'm just a first year I'm just

00:58:54.000 here to learn and so you end up um it's just such a successful you know institution for for

00:59:03.640 indoctrinating whatever it is you know billions of dollars coming from Qatar or whatever their

00:59:08.960 Marxist DEI or whatever it is it's just a perfect place for it exactly but yeah anyway thank you so

00:59:17.700 much for that that was this is this is like really I feel like I'm in one of your classes right now

00:59:22.380 this is great um Hannah you're next okay hi I'm just leaving my camera off because

00:59:31.120 um an abundance of caution so um it's very cool to see your face though um I I wanted to ask

00:59:41.580 actually about oppression and internal Jewish um dynamics basically so um my for context I'm Ashkenazi

00:59:53.760 Holocaust offspring and all that good stuff and my partner though is Mizrahi from uh 1.00

01:00:00.860 Muslim majority country uh like you but anyway I'm not going to say what country and uh there his

01:00:08.640 family still lives there and it's not safe at all that's why my camera's off so um I just I don't

01:00:16.920 want to put anyone in danger at all but anyways so um I wanted to ask you about you know there's like

01:00:24.200 about 35,000 Jews still in the Middle East um not Israel countries and I wanted to ask about this

01:00:35.040 big contrast in their lived experiences like the oppression that they live today and that like

01:00:43.060 nobody cares especially well not but like Ashkenazi progressive anti-Zionist Jews who we used to call 0.52

01:00:50.000 in tokens but now they're a growing in number uh and uh I'm just completely like I don't even know

01:00:59.840 how to deal with my own community because because I you know I think I'm progressive I don't know like

01:01:07.160 I I really care about stuff and I don't understand how to reconcile our worlds together like uh

01:01:15.620 like just especially anti-Zionist Ashkenazi throwing other Jews under the bus all the time

01:01:23.200 so I guess my question is you know we know that mainstream Jewish narratives are very Ashkenazi

01:01:31.200 centric um and maybe can you talk about this dynamic and how it's how it's shaping things out and

01:01:41.460 maybe all this in a relationship to like stuff about indigeneity and stuff like that sure I mean

01:01:47.940 there are several there are several factors at play there let me begin with one that you know is

01:01:55.460 straight out of the parasitic mind so does does anybody recognize the name Anna Epstein she became 0.93

01:02:01.860 famous for a few seconds a couple of months ago she's the Jewish student from either Boston College or 0.71

01:02:10.000 Boston University that was caught on camera ripping down the posters of Jewish babies right so Anna Epstein 0.99

01:02:21.340 is so much more progressive and empathetic than all of you monstrous cretins that she has attained 1.00

01:02:28.800 another level of enlightenment whereby despite her being Jewish she's tearing down in rejection of the 0.99

01:02:36.760 Jewish baby posters right now why am I saying this under the parasitic framework because let me 0.94

01:02:45.300 explain why I used the the neuro parasitological framework in in my in the book the parasitic mind 0.91

01:02:52.800 so let's take the wood cricket the wood cricket I mean a literal cricket it despises water it doesn't

01:03:01.520 want to do anything want to do anything with water but when its brain is parasitized by a neural parasite

01:03:08.520 a particular hair worm the hair worm needs the wood cricket to jump into water to its hapless death

01:03:18.020 because for it to complete its reproductive cycle it meaning the parasite it needs to happen in water

01:03:24.760 so it alters the neuronal circuitry of the wood cricket so that it takes something that it has an innate

01:03:31.220 fear of and then it jumps into the water to its suicide those are your Ashkenazi friends they're parasitized 0.97

01:03:39.300 they went to Oberlin they went to Wellesley they went to Harvard they know nothing about the reality

01:03:47.980 what they do know what they do know is suicidal empathy drum roll topic of my next book right which is

01:03:56.260 it is the empathy module being hyperactive and misdirected right homeless people more important than

01:04:07.980 homeowners noble MS-13 gang members coming out of the southern border more important than

01:04:17.780 legal citizens and on and on so when the suicidal empathy model misfires hyper activates you get all

01:04:25.980 sorts of policy problems that arise and hence this could this is likely to be the topic of my next book

01:04:31.640 so what your Ashkenazi friends are doing is they are parasitized by various neuro parasites they don't

01:04:40.020 have the inoculation that comes from having lived the reality of the experience of the Mizrahi Jews 1.00

01:04:47.460 where they can say well let me let me teach you about what the reality is and so for all of those

01:04:53.780 reasons they can't extricate themselves from the fact that unlike those really combative war-like

01:05:01.880 Mizrahi Jews remember the the Jews from the Middle East are often referred to as the blacks of the Jews even

01:05:10.800 even even just being Arabic when I used to play soccer we used to be called sand n-word right so so

01:05:20.160 what happens with so there's as I said it's a complicated story but there's definitely a dynamic

01:05:26.360 where the Ashkenazis are you know they're the Oberlin folks they're the Wellesley folks they're just 0.99

01:05:33.660 infinitely empathetic right free free Palestine queers for Palestine they're enlightened unlike 0.97

01:05:40.700 those other warring black Jews and so for all those reasons they they hold the position that they do 0.91

01:05:48.420 now some of them have woken up right Bill Ackman has woken up yes but it frustrates me that it 0.81

01:05:56.220 you don't have to be woken up personally just that's what I was going to say yeah that's what

01:06:00.300 yeah sorry to interrupt I ruined it please I'm glad you said it because the the problem and that's

01:06:06.220 another feature of the architecture of the human mind is that diabetes doesn't exist unless it hits

01:06:16.300 my home there is no such thing as diabetes okay but once it hits my son type 1 diabetes oh there is

01:06:24.380 such thing as diabetes once it hits me as type 2 diabetes there so it has to personally hit me so

01:06:30.720 Bill Ackman and I'm not taking anything away from him we we follow each other he knows me I'm hoping

01:06:36.360 to have a chat with him soon he's a lovely guy he's an incredibly successful guy but Bill Ackman is a

01:06:42.720 manifestation of all those super influential wealthy liberal Jews who it took for reality to be one 0.88

01:06:52.080 millimeter away from you for you to say oh damn but when Gad Saad was standing to an earlier question 0.95

01:06:58.720 you asked at the top of the mountain going wake up wake up people were saying ah come on this doesn't 0.98

01:07:04.680 affect me I go to the cool parties in Cambridge so that's the problem is that oftentimes the only way

01:07:12.000 to get people to respond to a reality is exactly what Yasmin said once it comes to my home what do you 0.99

01:07:19.080 mean Sharia zones there are no Sharia zones I don't see that there are no hijabs where I live oh shit look 0.96

01:07:26.880 at that in seven years every seven out of ten women are failed but four years ago you told me that there 0.96

01:07:35.860 is no such thing I'm exaggerating that's the that's the failure of of the capability of humans to extrapolate

01:07:45.400 patterns right that's one of the reasons by the way why my satire is so effective and why I often

01:07:52.000 refer to it and others do as prophetic satire why because I'm able to take a lunacy today that people

01:08:00.440 are espousing and I just extrapolate it to its extreme boundary condition and then I satirize it there

01:08:08.360 and I wait with my hands crossed until reality catches up to my satire let me give you a quick

01:08:14.860 example about eight years ago I put out a clip you know with my whole woke wig and everything where I

01:08:21.900 was introducing a new field of study called social justice mathematics because I have a mathematics

01:08:28.680 background I used all the terminology from mathematics and I came up with all kinds of bullshit you can't use

01:08:35.120 the term irrational numbers because that marginalizes mental illness you can't I did all that stuff and

01:08:41.340 guess what it now exists well is it because I'm a prophet no it's because I'm able to take where we

01:08:50.460 are in point a trace out the slippery slope and then mock it at the point b that's what happens and so

01:08:59.400 what your Ashkenazi friends are doing is they don't see that slippery slope they're patting their backs

01:09:05.920 in terms of how progressive they are until reality hits them hard tomorrow morning

01:09:11.640 thank you I don't think they want to see that anyway thank you sure

01:09:18.180 okay so Daniel is next with a question that quite a few people had sort of variations of this question

01:09:26.660 Susanna hopefully your question will be answered in this as well um Daniel go ahead

01:09:33.080 yes nice to meet you nice to meet you um okay uh are some of the leaders in Canada the

01:09:43.820 politician politician leaders going to work against anti-semitism and what and if so what are they going

01:09:52.780 to do and uh nothing they're going they're going to generate vacuous empty platitudes hate has no home

01:10:06.520 here uh we will fight anti-semitism by combating islamophobia hence that's why I'm I'm somber because 0.86

01:10:17.560 there is absolutely no stomach there is no uh demonstration that there are any uh

01:10:25.640 cataclysmic leader who's going to come and quickly eradicate this stuff I only see it

01:10:34.580 worsening and therefore so to answer your question I I don't see any serious effort none of them are

01:10:41.280 going to grow courage and I don't know I remember hearing Trump um for the election of

01:10:47.540 for the upcoming election telling we are going to deport all the giadi sympathizer and all that

01:10:53.120 stuff none of them are going to have the same courage as he having not even close I mean the the

01:11:00.400 closest I see a leader doing that and people are announced oh he's a he's a nazi is you know where I

01:11:07.960 felt incredibly safe walking hungry I went to Hungary twice over the past few years the the most

01:11:17.120 recent one was on the invitation of the the president of Hungary and I didn't feel any

01:11:23.940 Jew hatred you know why because they have a closed border immigration policy so that what they what 0.99

01:11:32.560 what Hungary is exhibiting today is how the west was 25 years ago where Jews actually felt completely 0.78

01:11:41.780 comfortable look let me this is not necessarily a response to to Daniel but it's kind of building

01:11:48.400 on the offshoot of what he asked on any given day I always like to use this analogy let's suppose

01:11:54.620 you're trying to lose weight okay on any given day only three possible states of the world can happen as

01:12:03.520 relating to your weight because of the actions you took that day your weight could go up your weight can

01:12:10.440 stay exactly the same or your weight can go down is that true there's no other possibility right and so if

01:12:16.760 you if you have enough days where your weight went down then you will have weight loss right and I lost a lot

01:12:24.800 of weight over the past few years okay now let's apply that very simple principle that there are three

01:12:30.060 possibilities for a phenomenon okay to immigration if you let in hundreds of thousands if not millions of people who

01:12:42.300 originate from societies where they're using an extraordinary number of disparate data for example nonpartisan

01:12:52.380 pew surveys that show that people who come from those societies are you all paying attention 0.99

01:12:59.060 95 to 99 of cold people exhibit hatred towards the jew right now let me let me state this again 0.52

01:13:10.140 if I said that 10 of the people from those societies exhibit this favorable attitude towards the jew that should 1.00

01:13:20.120 stop you in your tracks 10 is a very big number but if I say it's 95 to 99 now we let in a thousand

01:13:28.220 now we let in a hundred thousand now we let in six million is jew hatred in the host nation going to 0.50

01:13:35.560 increase is it going to stay the same or is it going to decrease it doesn't take fancy professor dr

01:13:43.800 gatzad to to get that for you but again just like the solomon ash experiment I don't want to see it I don't

01:13:51.500 believe my lying eyes so now people go my god where does this jew hatred come from who where is it how

01:13:58.720 could it be well you've let in millions of people that define their societies contra their jew hatred 0.94

01:14:06.540 I got diabetes the jew did it my wife cheated on me the jew did it my store didn't work the jew did it 1.00

01:14:15.380 it's sunny outside it's sunny outside it's the jew it's rainy outside it's the jew now we import 10 million 1.00

01:14:22.140 of those people what happens now I don't need to also give the old but I know millions of muslims who are

01:14:28.500 lovely Yasmin comes from that culture I don't have any ill will I only have love for her I know practicing

01:14:36.840 muslims that are very good friends of mine but does islam contain tenets that are perfectly incongruent with 1.00

01:14:45.220 western values nothing could be clearer and yet not a single leader in the west is willing to say

01:14:51.100 what I just said which is a terribly banal and obvious statement therefore if we keep this up

01:14:56.480 the west will die it might take 500 years it might take five years but it will die save this conversation

01:15:03.160 I think it's also the perfect storm between those groups that you mentioned and then also of course

01:15:10.000 the marxism that has taken over our universities and our countries um and the anti-semitism that's

01:15:18.740 there as well and so the the two of them together have that shared shared hate that alliance exactly

01:15:25.660 well it's it's I mean to use the medical uh analogy or terminology it's comorbidity right I mean it's bad

01:15:34.140 if I am 60 pounds overweight it's worse if I'm 60 pounds overweight and I smoke it's worse if I'm 60

01:15:44.120 pounds overweight I smoke and I never exercise so there is no mechanism to protect my heart or my

01:15:51.020 blood pressure that's what you're seeing in the west exactly to your point there's a perfect confluence

01:15:56.200 of every possible problem that has resulted in the in the problem that we're facing today

01:16:01.880 okay if can I have another question do you think about um doing if if it's going to reach

01:16:10.160 hell in Canada if you allow me to exaggerate um do you think about doing aliyah which means

01:16:18.980 immigration to Israel yes uh well it's funny that you say this because when you think about this

01:16:25.300 think about this uh like this we are actually he's trying to recruit you I think he works for

01:16:32.420 Israeli immigration um come work at our universities we are forced to have close borders because 1.00

01:16:39.820 the Middle East is wild as hell yes uh look uh in when we were deciding where we were well we I was 11

01:16:50.860 years old but when we were when my parents were deciding where we were going to leave my father was

01:16:56.500 very keen on the family moving to Israel I'm talking now in the 70s and in a sense luckily my mother won 0.99

01:17:06.440 that argument I say luckily not out of any disrespect for Israel because of course most of my family lives

01:17:12.760 in Israel and so on uh my extended family that is but uh in 1982 when Israel went into Lebanon to

01:17:22.720 clean some house there had my father won that debate I would have been the first guy in the tanks moving to

01:17:33.680 Lebanon because that would have been in my first year of military service I'm the Arabic speaking guy

01:17:39.920 from Lebanon so in a sense the the possibility of us making aliyah has been in the in discussion in my

01:17:48.500 family for many many years so the reason why I'm answering that question is because then the next

01:17:54.340 issue is well I'm too old to go in the to be a commando but I do have young children now on the one hand I

01:18:03.280 could say well sure I want them to serve and protect uh Israel but on the other hand having a 0.99

01:18:09.900 escaped all that lunacy I'm a bit tepid to go back into the the cauldron of of hate but but I hear

01:18:18.040 you Israel might end up being the only safe place for Jews so your your point is well taken 1.00

01:18:23.620 can I have one what about the rest of us where do I go where's where's my Israel well it's hungry

01:18:32.480 Sarah Sarah hears me like what about us yes go ahead no I I I hear you listen I've I've sat with

01:18:40.100 my wife at a cafe where we look at each other and we say where to next uh it's it's very I mean

01:18:49.120 it's clear that our long-term future not even our long-term future our our our medium-term future

01:18:56.300 is not going to be in Montreal it's it's truly untenable uh maybe some red state in in in the

01:19:05.420 us where at least I have the possibility of carrying a gun so that if if I have a maniac coming at me I

01:19:13.040 can go out with dignity by the way just I'm just free free associating here one I tell the story in

01:19:20.860 the parasitic mind of a recurring nightmare that I had for close to I mean I probably haven't had it

01:19:28.300 in 10 years maybe but the first 25 30 years having left Lebanon I would have a consistent nightmare 0.94

01:19:37.460 which was one of two forms the bad guys are coming to get us and my gun uh malfunctions or the bad guys

01:19:49.500 are coming for us and I ran out of ammo and I told that story to uh uh Rob Rob O'Neill the the I mean

01:20:00.020 literally the guy who killed bin Laden who was part of the seal seal six navy team and as I told him that

01:20:07.960 story he goes oh many of us have that dream in the military and it's called the uh the warrior dream or

01:20:16.580 something like that right why am I saying all this because now I feel like I'm back to being

01:20:23.420 the 10 year old kid in Lebanon whose life depends on whether the bad guys come in or not and get me

01:20:32.300 whereas at least to Yasmin's comment if I can be in a place where at least I have a fighting chance

01:20:40.360 one of the things that I love about the U.S. notwithstanding all of the the blue states and

01:20:44.480 all that is that there are more guns in the U.S. than there are people so if if if the Americans are

01:20:50.900 going to go out they're going out fighting right whereas Canada is the singularly most castrated 1.00

01:21:00.100 feminized society that the world has ever created when I had death threats on me and I went to the

01:21:06.940 police and said well is there a way for me to get a gun license is there I mean they knew me they knew

01:21:12.480 how high profile I was they knew of the threats on me they said no when they come to you call 911

01:21:17.840 yes because when when when Muhammad comes to knife me I'll just call 911 wait a minute just hold on 1.00

01:21:26.940 Muhammad just wait till the cops come in 12 minutes right whereas if I'm carrying hey you may kill me 1.00

01:21:34.500 but I may kill you back so you need to go to a place where you still have the the personal dignity

01:21:40.680 to be able to defend yourself and regrettably there are fewer and fewer places in the west where you 0.98

01:21:45.740 can do that

01:21:46.340 are you happy with that Daniel

01:21:49.780 just one final question I'm sorry for holding on for the rest of you I understand let's just say

01:21:57.680 that a relative of mine is dating a Persian Jew and she told she has an uncle that's still in Iran

01:22:06.820 and uncle Jew that's still in Iran and she only saw some family members from Iran three times in her life

01:22:17.120 and we tried to let's just say they tried to convince them maybe to make a move here but they are scared to

01:22:27.760 lose everything they built in Iran even though my mother also told them there is no cost for freedom 1.00

01:22:38.280 at least here she the same Persian Jew also told me that they had they had a hard time leaving Israel

01:22:49.020 for going back to Iran because they finally had didn't have to to walk around covering their head

01:22:59.340 and you know be free from all that chaos like how do you convince someone to just forget all of that

01:23:09.520 and and I don't know maybe they yeah I I get your question uh to our earlier comment about it has to

01:23:21.240 hit you in the face before you you wake up to it right uh we only left Lebanon when it

01:23:29.240 became impossible to be in Lebanon right I mean most of my extended family had already left they 0.97

01:23:35.240 had read the writing on the wall and yet my parents having been well entrenched within Lebanese society

01:23:41.440 just thought there's no reason for I'm not blaming them I'm just saying that it's it's hard when you've

01:23:46.680 built a whole life right you have you have your business you have your life you have your network

01:23:50.680 I mean you're Lebanese you're not Israeli right I mean yes you're Jewish but you're Lebanese

01:23:55.380 you listen to Arabic music your cooking is Lebanese everything is Lebanese right so it's only when it 0.99

01:24:02.020 hits you and there is really no alternative it's either I leave or die and as a matter of fact I mean

01:24:08.720 to that point remember I mentioned earlier that even when we escaped death in Lebanon my parents kept 0.99

01:24:17.040 returning to Lebanon right I mean it was in 1980 when they were finally kidnapped by Fatah it was one of 0.76

01:24:23.900 their many return trips so you might say how is that rational that makes no sense you you escaped we got

01:24:30.720 on that plane where you put the star of David on me how the hell did you ever go back that makes no

01:24:36.940 sense well it makes sense if you understand that human nature is such that you've you've built a life

01:24:43.120 so I don't think I have a magic recipe for you all that I can say is that it if they are truly

01:24:51.260 entrenched within Iranian society the only time that they will wake up is when they are calling 0.96

01:24:56.960 them to sorry to say to hang them and then suddenly they'll either wake up and say it's time to go to

01:25:04.060 Israel or they'll bad things will happen to them that's the reality of yeah that's the story of the 0.93

01:25:10.940 holocaust too though isn't it exactly that's exactly right exactly right it won't affect us 0.84

01:25:17.500 we'll be able to lay low it I think it's too good here what if we go somewhere else we'll never be

01:25:23.980 accepted I know that our neighbors are really nice and they'll protect us there are an endless number

01:25:29.200 of reasons why it isn't currently the right time to leave until it's too late now by the way this

01:25:36.420 reality of the miracle of having been able to escape incredibly small odds of leaving Lebanon

01:25:43.020 when we did to link it back to the happiness book I actually use the tragedy of of my background

01:25:51.520 to make me happy in life why because whenever I'm going through something in my daily life that causes

01:26:00.840 me to go down on myself that uh this sucks I have pressure I can always use the pill in my internal

01:26:08.520 dialogue and say wait a minute you're you're complaining because a lot of people want to talk 0.59

01:26:14.080 to you on the media and you have to travel to speak about your book remember you escaped the middle east and

01:26:22.740 suddenly that can contextualize for me whatever is pissing me off stressing me causing me anxiety

01:26:30.460 making me feel as if life is dreary against that backdrop so I truly think that we can take these

01:26:37.860 stories of true victimhood not manufactured bs victimhood and actually use them to our advantage

01:26:46.100 yes they're part of our story they're part of the regrettable realities of life but boy have I used that

01:26:53.880 to actually lead a happy enriched life because I knew I know that those PLO militia that were driving us 1.00

01:27:03.060 to the airport could have taken us to a ditch and put a bullet in our head and that's it you're not

01:27:09.700 speaking to me right now so against that backdrop I lead a pretty good life that's that sounds very

01:27:17.820 similar to to me and the choices I've made as well good right um so again many many variations of this

01:27:26.420 same question and I want to end on on this question and we're kind of going to be looking to you now as

01:27:32.080 uh as the hope the guru it's a big question um a lot of really sad stories in the comments and

01:27:42.640 especially sad one about a woman who's sharing a story about a Lebanese friend of hers you know

01:27:48.620 they'd gotten pregnant together twice raised their kids together they're really good friends and then

01:27:53.360 of course on October 7th that woman was one of the first people to you know immediately celebrate the

01:28:00.600 the death of innocent people in Israel so they're obviously not friends anymore um many stories like

01:28:07.480 that lots of people sharing just feeling scared feeling depressed some people are asking if they

01:28:13.860 need to convert to Islam if that's where we're at um but I'm going to kind of collect all of those 1.00

01:28:19.680 questions and and ask you how will the west survive what can we do now like where do you see

01:28:27.460 a future a hopeful future is it yeah what what can be done at this point so on on the grand kind of

01:28:37.240 one sentence uh you cannot have in your society people who ascribe to an ideology that is

01:28:47.120 manufactured to be antithetical to every one of the foundational values of your society that could

01:28:54.800 never coexist there isn't just part of pancreatic cancer that's okay right there is there isn't some

01:29:03.880 optimal level of pancreatic cancer it there isn't now don't don't no I'm not saying that Muslims are 0.96

01:29:11.180 cancer no Islam Islam is completely incompatible and inconsistent and incongruent with fundamental 1.00

01:29:23.160 tenets of human flourishing nothing could be clearer does does that mean that there aren't

01:29:28.800 hundreds of millions of Muslims who are incredibly lovely incredibly peaceful kind generous spiritual

01:29:35.980 happy of course not we're talking about an ideology do these two ideologies one is called western

01:29:43.600 liberties and freedoms enlightenment secularism do these are they consistent with Islam when as

01:29:51.500 properly practiced there is cafeteria Islam where I just ignore the things that I don't like right 0.99

01:29:56.620 there are endless Muslims that don't want to kill Jews but what does Islamic canons say about the Jews 0.64

01:30:05.000 well that's incontestable so on a general level there needs to be a complete re-discussion re-evaluation 0.51

01:30:15.800 of our current immigration policies so that's that's at the broad kind of macro level nothing could

01:30:22.000 either worsen things or improve them more than that okay if you want to come you're from Yemen or

01:30:28.400 Pakistan Pakistan and you want to leave those values and check them at the door then come in my brother 1.00

01:30:35.120 let's let's build a greater fun society together if you don't want to on you know leave leave those then

01:30:43.080 you're not welcome right so that's number one at the individual level I say to my earlier point

01:30:50.280 there is a way to turn this around the reason why it can't be is because we are in a gargantuan

01:30:57.120 Solomon Ash simulation it is part of the architecture of the human mind to not act the default value of

01:31:05.320 humans is incredible cowardice that's why I say you need to add cowardice as an eighth deadly sin now it could

01:31:13.640 be included in sloth which is or avarice which is one of the seven deadly sins but I'd like to add it as its own

01:31:19.700 category the reason why heroic figures are heroic and then revered in history is because they are

01:31:26.600 anomalous right they they're outliers right it's the hero that is different from all the cowards that

01:31:33.740 had the courage to stand up so what I implore people is to somehow look within themselves and I'm

01:31:40.320 I mean it sounds like I'm speaking harshly but I am trying to be optimistic to to Yasmin's request 0.98

01:31:45.220 you have to find your spine and you have to find your testicles irrespective of whether you're male 0.79

01:31:51.640 or female that's why I for example say that most academics belong to a unique biological species 0.99

01:31:57.600 they're called invertebrate castrati they don't have a spine they don't have testicles we're both

01:32:03.480 academics so there you go so you hashtag not all academics but you could confirm that you agree that

01:32:10.200 most of our colleagues are spineless and castrate okay so you can't fight a war whether it be an

01:32:17.280 ideological war or a physical war where one side is unbelievably committed in their zeal and the other

01:32:26.320 side is committed in its self-implosion right human history is defined at all human history in every

01:32:35.020 corner of the world is defined I'm gonna I'm gonna give you the two sentence of all history there is

01:32:41.600 a river there is one group of folks that live on one side of the river there is another group of folks

01:32:47.900 that live on the other side of the river each group is looking at the water supply at the other side and

01:32:54.340 at the pretty women on the other side and is saying hmm I think I'd like to get some of that and the only 0.98

01:33:01.120 thing that stops each of those two groups from acting out on their desire is because each of the

01:33:07.520 two groups knows that there are men in each of those two groups that are not going to lay down dying

01:33:13.840 in some cases we decide you know what it's worth fighting for it in other cases we size ourselves up and

01:33:20.420 say yeah those guys across the river look pretty nasty I better keep quiet for the first time in history

01:33:27.860 we have a violation of this river analogy or or story we have one group of folks who say we're coming

01:33:38.160 for you and the other side says I will actually show you how to get to the bedroom where I put my

01:33:47.140 children that's how progressive I am I will show you the exact roadmap of where we hid our women

01:33:54.700 that's how progressive I am that those two can't work if those two stay together I can predict with

01:34:02.580 absolute assuredness who's going to win so the now here's the optimism part not all men I say men it

01:34:12.900 could also be women but you know what I'm speaking in the in the generic not all men in the west don't 0.98

01:34:19.660 have testicles the problem is they may wake up too late down the road where it will require a lot 0.98

01:34:25.840 more violence for it to solve it the issue will be addressed and I truly believe that the west will 0.99

01:34:32.260 wake up and win but it's going to be bloody because right now those the enemy ideology is in every street

01:34:40.720 corner at one point it was on the other side of the river so as long as the two rivers didn't we didn't

01:34:47.660 cross you can live your life as best as you want and we live it as best as we can but once we say 0.97

01:34:54.140 we suck we're useless we're garbage everything about us is wrong and everything about you is beautiful and 1.00

01:35:02.940 noble the other side says boy they're idiots as a matter of fact by the way I'll maybe I'll end with 1.00

01:35:09.380 this it's it's maybe not the optimism that you wanted but maybe it wakes you up I've spoken to a lot 0.99

01:35:15.940 of Arabic people usually this happened before they knew who I was right because otherwise they 1.00

01:35:22.140 wouldn't say the things that they do in some cases they're friends that actually do say it openly to me

01:35:27.840 they say the west is a woman to be mounted I could even translate it for you in Arabic but it won't matter 1.00

01:35:36.360 for most people right so listen to the imagery the west is a woman you mount that's the mindset right 1.00

01:35:44.380 I explained this in a recent article that I wrote for national post I called it culture cultural

01:35:51.780 blindness or lacking cultural theory of mind what does that mean when the west acts magnanimous

01:36:00.520 compassionate compassionate forgiving empathetic they think that those values will be treated as

01:36:09.840 virtuous by the other camp and that will be reciprocated you know how it's analyzed by the

01:36:16.560 other side weak weak weak weak I'm mounting you hey get ready I hope you're ready I'm about to mount you

01:36:27.380 you ready so that's what people don't understand that's why people like me who speak with that

01:36:33.320 cadence with that intonation by the way on Monday I'm speaking with uh Mossab the the the son of the

01:36:41.500 uh founder of uh Hamas when you hear him speaking to me it's like music to the ears because when he takes 1.00

01:36:51.240 on two obnoxious students who are wearing the keffiyeh who grew up in in the u.s and who are doing free

01:37:00.740 free Palestine he doesn't mince his words he doesn't fool around and that to them it hits them they they don't

01:37:08.260 know how to react so that's why I always say it's immigrants who are the strongest defenders of the west

01:37:16.300 it's Yasmin it's Ayaan Hirsi Ali it's Ghat Saad why because we've sampled the buffets of all societies

01:37:24.420 and so we know that what's out there is not what you have in the west and so we come and say be

01:37:31.640 careful you're you're replicating the middle east and most westerners go oh come on stop exaggerating

01:37:38.480 stop screaming from the top of the mountain so I do think that once people do wake up we can hopefully

01:37:44.980 turn it around and have a better future

01:37:47.880 okay wonderful thank you I hope so I hope lots of people listen to you your your uh sad truth read

01:37:59.480 your books listen to this podcast hear what you're saying I you know you're preaching to the choir with

01:38:05.880 me because I'm one of those people that's also considered an alarmist and what do you talk because

01:38:10.540 they don't see what we see you know they don't know what we know after October 7th a lot of eyes

01:38:16.140 were opened you know I had Israeli friends who would tell me Yasmin you're just so much you know

01:38:23.060 you need to relax and after October 7th they called me frying in some cases one of my friends was in

01:38:30.300 Tel Aviv on October 7th and she called me and she was saying I am so sorry like I I see what you were

01:38:37.760 saying now it's heartbreaking you don't want them to know what you know you know what I mean like

01:38:44.980 what you are describing in in a lot of this whole conversation is trauma you are the result of

01:38:52.320 childhood trauma a lot of what you have done is is as a result of that you know and people who have not

01:39:01.220 seen the kind of you know evil that humans are potential of have the potential to do the way you

01:39:10.280 have the way I have they don't believe that it exists you know it's like you said the diabetes

01:39:17.520 doesn't exist because I don't have it or nobody that I love has it you know it's you know everything

01:39:22.240 you you said so many things in this conversation today that I really you know we should just make

01:39:28.360 like an entire quote book out of it and then just give it away for free like and just hope

01:39:33.500 that that people start to listen pay attention I don't know if there's any hope for Canada but I

01:39:39.840 really hope that that we do have Canadians that do start to pay attention there were so many amazing

01:39:47.220 comments for you here people talking about how your book has changed their life their lives yeah it's

01:39:55.720 been really beautiful but you know it's just it's just too much um too many comments of love and

01:40:01.520 appreciation um so I'll just say on behalf of everybody here thank you thank you so much for

01:40:07.880 your time thank you so much for sharing so much of your your life story and your experiences and your

01:40:14.240 wisdom with us and uh and yeah we're very very grateful to have you here and to have you on our side

01:40:21.120 thank you so much thank you for the kind words and guys please get out there and speak out we can win

01:40:27.920 this thank you so much shabbat shalom to those of you who are part of the evil juice to those who are 1.00

01:40:33.500 not have a great weekend I wish you a restful and fun weekend cheers everybody thank you bye

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The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - May 03, 2024

Growing up in Lebanon, October 7th, & the future of the West (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_667)

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