The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - August 20, 2024


Kamala Harris is a Lobotomized Communist - An Economics Lesson (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_701)

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bad ideas price controls and socialism
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Gad Saad
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Sam Harris E.O. Wilson Adam Smith Plato
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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.

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00:00:00.160 Hi 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.
00:00:29.560 It 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.
00:00:54.600 So, 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.
00:01:17.820 Therefore, 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.
00:01:35.260 That 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.
00:01:54.100 And so, bad ideas have real consequences in the real world.
00:01:58.640 Let me just draw a few other examples of bad ideas.
00:02:01.520 But, of course, human history is replete with nothing but bad ideas.
00:02:05.780 This 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.
00:02:16.040 Take, 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.
00:02:44.940 You could, you could look it up, you could do a Google search on it and find all sorts of articles.
00:02:50.240 And there was a massive outbreak of child rapes, infant rapes, baby rapes, because people were parasitized into believing that, yeah, that makes sense. 0.89
00:03:03.280 Raping a baby somehow protects you. 0.98
00:03:05.840 It's absolutely insane. 0.59
00:03:07.180 But those are, that's what happens when a mind is parasitized by ideologies, by bad thinking, by irrationality.
00:03:16.880 Let me give you another example.
00:03:19.240 These two examples, I recently saw them on a Nova documentary series.
00:03:25.240 But, of course, I had heard about these stories in the past.
00:03:30.620 The ancient Egyptians have a great reverence for feline species, for cats.
00:03:39.580 And 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.
00:03:51.860 Because then that, you know, the deity would pay attention, given that she's the feline deity or something to that effect. 0.96
00:03:59.400 And then, of course, the logic is, well, you know, you could sacrifice one cat.
00:04:04.200 That won't be as good as sacrificing two, which is not as good as sacrificing ten.
00:04:08.800 And 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. 0.53
00:04:22.220 So 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.
00:04:32.580 Of 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.
00:04:44.440 And so there would be all sorts of rituals where you would torture and then kill cats in the most horrifying of ways.
00:04:52.420 Again, it came, you know, it came from a leading, the leading authority of the Catholic Church who thought that that was a good idea.
00:05:02.280 Now, why am I giving you all of these cross-cultural and cross-temporal examples of parasitized thinking?
00:05:11.260 We're going to come to our favorite cackler, Kamala Harris, right?
00:05:17.840 Kamala Harris has recently stated, hey, I'm going to go after those price-gouging food producers and I'm going to set price controls. 0.99
00:05:28.880 Now, 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. 0.99
00:05:39.240 And it must be because, you know, those corporations are greedy. 0.99
00:05:45.660 And 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. 0.99
00:05:56.460 And again, communism sounds like a kind, compassionate, empathetic ideology to five-year-olds or to the perpetually lobotomized.
00:06:06.800 Communism doesn't work for several reasons.
00:06:08.880 It doesn't work because it is anti-human nature, right?
00:06:14.220 For many, many different reasons.
00:06:15.860 And I'll be talking a lot more about this in my forthcoming book on suicidal empathy.
00:06:21.020 Remember 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.
00:06:32.420 It makes sense for ants to be communists because there's one reproductive queen and then everybody else is equal.
00:06:39.300 It doesn't make sense for humans to be communists because we are not all equal.
00:06:44.500 We 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.
00:06:52.640 That's why equality of outcomes, which she espouses, is anti-human nature.
00:06:58.480 It literally is an affront to what it means to be a human being.
00:07:04.360 Okay.
00:07:04.740 But now let's come back to price controls.
00:07:06.700 So 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. 0.77
00:07:19.420 The 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.
00:07:36.700 Or a orgiastic printing of money by the government is the primary reason why you end up getting inflation.
00:07:44.320 So she creates inflation, which results in the prices that you're seeing with food. 0.87
00:07:53.820 And then she, so that's problem one.
00:07:56.820 And her solution to that problem is price controls with which itself will only exacerbate the problem. 0.95
00:08:04.760 Why?
00:08:05.060 Let me give you a very quick macroeconomic lesson and microeconomic.
00:08:11.940 The most fundamental law in economics is supply and demand, right?
00:08:17.020 The 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.
00:08:34.940 So the supply is very low, so the supply is very low, but there is a demand for diamonds.
00:08:40.820 And therefore, it's that relationship between supply and demand that sets what the price should be for diamonds.
00:08:48.960 Let's put it in a biological context.
00:08:51.020 Women's gametes, their eggs are worth a lot more than men's because they are rare. 1.00
00:09:00.300 A woman is born with one to two million eggs, but only about 400 will be fertilizable. 0.55
00:09:05.860 Whereas men have, on average, 250 million spermatozoa in a singular ejaculation.
00:09:14.360 Therefore, because men's gametes are very cheap and abundant, whereas women's are rare, scarce, and then therefore worth a lot more.
00:09:26.320 That'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.
00:09:42.280 And 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. 0.88
00:09:52.080 So, I can put that biological reality in the language of economics, right?
00:09:58.180 So, it's a universal law, this supply and demand.
00:10:03.280 When you impose price controls, especially, by the way, in the food industry, the prices have arisen not because greedy corporations are gouging consumers.
00:10:15.580 It's because the cost to the food producer has gone up.
00:10:20.680 Their margins are still very low.
00:10:22.500 I don't know what it is.
00:10:23.160 I think it's 1% or 2%.
00:10:24.240 So, 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.
00:10:33.260 When 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.
00:10:43.480 So, 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.
00:11:04.880 A bad idea, a parasitic idea, will always result in the same outcome.
00:11:12.120 If I make 20 people jump off of a rooftop, there is no worldview where gravity ceases to exist.
00:11:21.060 In 20 out of 20 cases, we can exactly predict what will happen to that person if we drop them from a 40-story building.
00:11:28.780 Because gravity exists in the real world.
00:11:32.360 Your political ideology does not transcend gravity.
00:11:37.100 So, 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.
00:11:49.960 Those things don't work because they violate fundamental tenets, universal tenets that are very, very predictable.
00:12:00.380 So, there you have it.
00:12:01.900 But the problem arises because if I am a person who is facing difficulty in meeting my grocery bill, it sounds good to hear,
00:12:13.640 hey, I'm going to put a price control on those greedy food suppliers. 1.00
00:12:18.500 Or, hey, it's a great idea if you give me $25,000 for my first starter home.
00:12:24.200 What do you think happens to house prices if you do that?
00:12:30.480 It's unbelievably frustrating.
00:12:33.120 It always brings me back to what Plato said about democracies.
00:12:37.460 It pains me that so much of the misery that humanity faces always comes down to faulty thinking.
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