In this episode, Gadsad explains how ideological rapture can result in dreadful policies and dreadful ideas spreading, originally from the university ecosystem, and then to politics, journalism, and popular culture, everywhere. And then, of course, he offers a mind vaccine and inoculation against these dreadful ideas.
00:00:00.160Hi everybody, this is Gadsad. In the parasitic mind right here, which if you haven't gotten it yet, you should, I explain how ideological rapture, parasitic ideological rapture, can result in dreadful policies and dreadful ideas spreading, originally from the university ecosystem, and then to politics, to journalism, to popular culture, everywhere.
00:00:29.560It infects everything. And then, of course, I offer a mind vaccine and inoculation against these dreadful ideas. In the book, I talk about specific instances throughout history where people were infected with dreadful ideas that resulted in real disastrous consequences on millions of people.
00:00:54.600So, for example, in the book, I talk about, briefly, Lysenkoism, right? Lysenko was a Russian scientist who did not like the theory of, you know, the fundamental laws of genetics and Mendelian genetics, because somehow they were inconsistent with the Marxist philosophy.
00:01:17.820Therefore, he espoused a set of positions that were more in line with, you know, the Soviet Union's political philosophy, but which scientifically was incorrect, was untenable.
00:01:35.260That led to the death by famine of, you know, the range, it ranges from, you know, 20, 30 million, all the way up to 55 million, I think, if you include the consequences of that ideology that was then transported to China.
00:01:54.100And so, bad ideas have real consequences in the real world.
00:01:58.640Let me just draw a few other examples of bad ideas.
00:02:01.520But, of course, human history is replete with nothing but bad ideas.
00:02:05.780This is why I often repeatedly state and remind people that there is nothing in nature that is even remotely close to being as dangerous as a parasitized mind.
00:02:16.040Take, for example, in the early 2000s, there was a myth that spread like wildfire throughout South Africa that basically said that if you wish to protect yourself from contracting HIV and then AIDS, then if you raped a baby, that's called, I think, the virgin cleansing myth or something to that effect, then that would inoculate you from the HIV and AIDS.
00:02:44.940You could, you could look it up, you could do a Google search on it and find all sorts of articles.
00:02:50.240And there was a massive outbreak of child rapes, infant rapes, baby rapes, because people were parasitized into believing that, yeah, that makes sense.
00:03:19.240These two examples, I recently saw them on a Nova documentary series.
00:03:25.240But, of course, I had heard about these stories in the past.
00:03:30.620The ancient Egyptians have a great reverence for feline species, for cats.
00:03:39.580And part of praying to, I can't remember the name of the, you know, the deity that's related to cats, was that they would sacrifice actual cats to that deity.
00:03:51.860Because then that, you know, the deity would pay attention, given that she's the feline deity or something to that effect.
00:03:59.400And then, of course, the logic is, well, you know, you could sacrifice one cat.
00:04:04.200That won't be as good as sacrificing two, which is not as good as sacrificing ten.
00:04:08.800And so the ancient Egyptians went through a whole period where they would breed thousands upon thousands of cats for no other purpose than to eventually sacrifice them.
00:04:22.220So if you are, if you are, if you are a cat in that time period, and if you knew that the humans walking around you were parasitized with that particular idea, well, good luck to you.
00:04:32.580Of course, and later in Europe, there was a pope that thought that, you know, cats are a manifestation of, you know, Satan and so on.
00:04:44.440And so there would be all sorts of rituals where you would torture and then kill cats in the most horrifying of ways.
00:04:52.420Again, it came, you know, it came from a leading, the leading authority of the Catholic Church who thought that that was a good idea.
00:05:02.280Now, why am I giving you all of these cross-cultural and cross-temporal examples of parasitized thinking?
00:05:11.260We're going to come to our favorite cackler, Kamala Harris, right?
00:05:17.840Kamala Harris has recently stated, hey, I'm going to go after those price-gouging food producers and I'm going to set price controls.
00:05:28.880Now, that sounds nice to a lobotomized idiot who might hear this because, hey, I'm paying too much for my meat and I'm paying too much for my eggs.
00:05:39.240And it must be because, you know, those corporations are greedy.
00:05:45.660And if I can get a benevolent, kind, empathetic, compassionate woman like Kamala Harris to come along and set a price control, then, hey, that's good for me.
00:05:56.460And again, communism sounds like a kind, compassionate, empathetic ideology to five-year-olds or to the perpetually lobotomized.
00:06:06.800Communism doesn't work for several reasons.
00:06:08.880It doesn't work because it is anti-human nature, right?
00:06:15.860And I'll be talking a lot more about this in my forthcoming book on suicidal empathy.
00:06:21.020Remember that E.O. Wilson, the famous Harvard entomologist who studied social ants, when he was asked about what he thought about socialism and communism, he said, you know, great idea, wrong species.
00:06:32.420It makes sense for ants to be communists because there's one reproductive queen and then everybody else is equal.
00:06:39.300It doesn't make sense for humans to be communists because we are not all equal.
00:06:44.500We should be equal under the law, but we're not equal in our temperament and our drive and our ambition and our height and our good looks and our intelligence.
00:06:52.640That's why equality of outcomes, which she espouses, is anti-human nature.
00:06:58.480It literally is an affront to what it means to be a human being.
00:07:04.740But now let's come back to price controls.
00:07:06.700So Kamala Harris has been the vice president on the current ticket for almost four years and inflation has been rampant during her tenure as vice president.
00:07:19.420The reason why inflation, the primary reason, there are several factors, but if you take macroeconomics and MBA, you know, as I did, then you know that printing of money by the government is the most fundamental reason.
00:07:36.700Or a orgiastic printing of money by the government is the primary reason why you end up getting inflation.
00:07:44.320So she creates inflation, which results in the prices that you're seeing with food.
00:08:05.060Let me give you a very quick macroeconomic lesson and microeconomic.
00:08:11.940The most fundamental law in economics is supply and demand, right?
00:08:17.020The reason why Adam Smith and folks after him said that, you know, the free market should determine prices is because diamonds cost more for you to purchase than a piece of wood because diamonds are rare.
00:08:34.940So the supply is very low, so the supply is very low, but there is a demand for diamonds.
00:08:40.820And therefore, it's that relationship between supply and demand that sets what the price should be for diamonds.
00:08:51.020Women's gametes, their eggs are worth a lot more than men's because they are rare.
00:09:00.300A woman is born with one to two million eggs, but only about 400 will be fertilizable.
00:09:05.860Whereas men have, on average, 250 million spermatozoa in a singular ejaculation.
00:09:14.360Therefore, because men's gametes are very cheap and abundant, whereas women's are rare, scarce, and then therefore worth a lot more.
00:09:26.320That's why you get in biology what's called parental investment theory, which is if you want to know how sex differences arise in a species, simply look at the minimal obligatory parental investment that each of the two sexes has to bear.
00:09:42.280And of course, in the human context, as is true of most species, females bear a much greater cost if only because of that inequity in gametes.
00:09:52.080So, I can put that biological reality in the language of economics, right?
00:09:58.180So, it's a universal law, this supply and demand.
00:10:03.280When you impose price controls, especially, by the way, in the food industry, the prices have arisen not because greedy corporations are gouging consumers.
00:10:15.580It's because the cost to the food producer has gone up.
00:10:24.240So, if you put a price control on them so that it becomes impossible for them to be in business, they will go out of business.
00:10:33.260When they go out of business, that's why you end up having scarcity of foods in the food stores as you have in Cuba and in the Soviet Union.
00:10:43.480So, anyone who has an inkling of a brain, anyone who's passed by an economics department or a business school or has anything mimicking neuronal activation in your brain knows that that's an astoundingly faulty position to take.
00:11:04.880A bad idea, a parasitic idea, will always result in the same outcome.
00:11:12.120If I make 20 people jump off of a rooftop, there is no worldview where gravity ceases to exist.
00:11:21.060In 20 out of 20 cases, we can exactly predict what will happen to that person if we drop them from a 40-story building.
00:11:28.780Because gravity exists in the real world.
00:11:32.360Your political ideology does not transcend gravity.
00:11:37.100So, when you hear people espousing, like Kamala Harris or others, you know, forgive student loans, set price controls, and all the rest of the socialist communist things.
00:11:49.960Those things don't work because they violate fundamental tenets, universal tenets that are very, very predictable.