00:09:41.340You've used, I mean, both here in your answers
00:09:44.060but also I've listened to some of your other interviews,
00:09:47.160you talk about the importance of creativity
00:09:49.060and I mentioned this in the first inaugural question I asked you.
00:09:52.020So in one of my earlier books, The Happiness Book, I have a chapter where I talk about how you can seek occupational happiness.
00:09:59.020And I argue that one of the means by which you can have purpose and meaning in your life is if you immerse yourself in the creative process.
00:10:07.020Now you could be a chef and create things, you could be an architect and create things, you could be a photographer or an author.
00:10:13.020But once you create something from nothing, that immediately imbues you with purpose and meaning.
00:10:19.020so do you agree with that and maybe you could add to that yeah just when you answer just kind
00:10:25.840of face that way face this way having a little trouble in the back so thank you um i i look at
00:10:31.960creativity as it saved my life it taught me it taught me to expand my perspective
00:10:38.940and it really brought so much joy and agency um and it was it gave me permission to to dream
00:10:47.160I never thought I would be writing my first book and pursuing that project in 2017-2018.
00:10:55.460It then came out, and this was my first project, The New Southern Style.
00:11:00.020It's all about creativity, humanizing our differences.
00:11:02.880I accidentally wrote the first inclusive design coffee table book for the design industry.
00:11:08.520But it was really based off of our Jewish values of having a social responsibility to one another.
00:11:13.580And then also I documented how our creative tools, like a chef's knife, a poet's pen, a photographer's camera, a painter's paintbrush, reveal that we're far more alike than different.
00:11:25.320And what I love about images so much is that you can look at one picture and it can break your heart in seconds or it can heal your soul the next minute.
00:11:34.120And it's a real beautiful universal language.
00:11:36.800And so the way I like to look at my projects, the first project is all about light and healing and growth and documenting how we live and breathe and grow and heal in our spaces.
00:11:48.080And the second project, it's about the shadows that we turn away from.
00:11:52.020It's about the truth that not a lot of people are willing to admit, especially when there's a cost associated to it.
00:12:25.000So I always try to find bridges between whomever I'm chatting with and the work that I do.
00:12:32.320So there is a psychologist at the University of Texas, Austin. His name is Sam Gosling. And he does a lot of very interesting, cool, eclectic research. One of which is he studies whether people can accurately predict people's personalities based on looking at their interior spaces.
00:12:54.180So if you were to come to my office and see how my office is, you know, arranged versus Stephen's, would you be able to accurately pick up individual differences in the personality traits that Stephen and I might defer on?
00:13:08.380And it turns out that people are able to do that.
00:13:10.960So with that said, with all of the architectural stuff that you've done, have you been able, if only anecdotally, to make such judgments?
00:13:19.300first of all I'm like Vegas when I'm in somebody else's home it does not leave
00:13:24.280that house but yes when I I've been in hundreds of homes and I've had my
00:13:29.000business still very active in it for over a decade and you can definitely
00:13:34.900tell personality of what people incorporate in their home and what
00:13:39.040people leave out and you know what people how people value their space their
00:13:44.800cleanliness their clutteredness um how they think you can you can definitely see those remnants of
00:13:51.600personality throughout the space and you can you can feel it you can feel you can feel if the
00:13:56.880family is warm uh and growing you could feel if there's tension in the home uh you can i'm very
00:14:03.040sensitive to the spaces in which i'm shooting so very nice maybe one or two more questions about
00:14:08.160her previous work and then we'll get into the latest book so there's an area in architecture
00:14:15.680called biophilic architecture which very much marries my own interest in evolutionary psychology
00:14:22.000i apply evolution psychology in countless disciplines but most often it's in consumer
00:14:27.600behavior and economic decision making and so on well in the context of architecture
00:14:32.640the idea is that many designs fail against our biophilic instinct. Biophilia basically means
00:14:40.740innate love of nature. So having windows, for example, if there's a great study that was done
00:14:46.760in the, I think, 1984, where they took people who came out of the exact same surgery and either
00:14:53.480assigned them to a hospital room with a window or without a window. Nothing else changed. Everything
00:15:00.140was controlled for and there were huge benefits to having literally a window to the world and so
00:15:06.460many architects unfortunately if they're trying to minimize cost or maximize you know how quickly
00:15:12.940a project could be done will not incorporate biophilic features having greenery in the air
00:15:20.620right think about all the housing projects that the governments come up with well they're terrible
00:15:27.020environments because they fail on this biophilic metric so with that said are you able to link some
00:15:34.300of your work as an architectural photographer to this innate love of nature that we may possess
00:15:39.580a lot of the designers and architects that i'm working with of course incorporate natural
00:15:44.300elements in their design whether whether it's a water feature whether it's expanding light into
00:15:49.980the the space uh and it lowers stress clinically um it allows for more creativity in the home
00:15:57.580and just more enjoyment and you know yes well i appreciate those features when i'm shooting that
00:16:03.500and just to so for example running the exact same speed uh the exact same distance either on a
00:16:11.660treadmill in your basement or in a pathway in a beautiful green environment turns out to have
00:16:17.740clear differences even though the amount of expenditure is the exact same but it really
00:16:22.620has a you know a reparative property being able to interact with nature restorative restorative
00:16:29.500exactly peaceful okay so now supportive of your you know your lifestyle exactly so now i want to
00:16:36.140transition to some of uh your your current interest you mentioned your cancer diagnosis earlier and
00:16:43.580i'm glad you mentioned although i'm sorry that you have to go through it because i want to talk
00:16:47.020about the concept of anti-fragility. Anti-fragility is a term that was introduced into the lexicon
00:16:53.660by a fellow Lebanese. His name is Nassim Talib. But the concept has existed for thousands of years.
00:17:01.500Seneca, the ancient Roman Stoic, said that if you look at trees that have strong roots
00:17:10.700and therefore they've experienced wind stressors, it's precisely because they faced wind stressors
00:17:17.700that they're able to have these strong roots. So being exposed to environmental stressors
00:17:23.800allows you to then have a better response to the difficulties that you face. I use that principle
00:17:29.220in my own life because I went through the Lebanese Civil War as a child. It'd be difficult to go
00:17:35.740through a worse environmental stressor than that and often people tell me well has that animated
00:17:41.160your future trajectory and I often say in many ways yes one of which whenever I am down on
00:17:48.840myself about something I'm whining to myself because I've got so much work and I think you0.99
00:17:54.180know you had a one in a million chance to get out of the Middle East so pick up your pants pretty1.00
00:17:59.240boy and stop whining. And that right away kind of gets me out of my stupor because I faced that0.95
00:18:06.300anti-fragility test. So with that said, how have you navigated your anti-fragility test with your
00:18:15.140cancer diagnosis and how has that shaped your future trajectory? It all is interwoven in my
00:18:21.900opinion. And to go back a little further, you survived a civil war. And I look at my ancestral
00:18:29.280holes in my family tree and I think that I'm able to do things that my relatives didn't. They didn't
00:18:37.400survive. There are huge profound holes from the Holocaust. And so I look at their strength and I0.90
00:18:44.980try to incorporate that resilience. Also growing up, there are certain stories that become ingrained
00:18:50.580in your DNA and I will get to the book soon but at the end of the last chapter
00:18:57.420in this project I share how important it is to be human versus heroic and a
00:19:02.460story from my mother when she took me to a Jewish community swimming pool
00:19:06.960growing up and I was a baby at this time and it was a normal beautiful summer day
00:19:12.240in Tulsa Oklahoma and she ripped me out of that pool she rushed me to the women's1.00
00:19:17.340restroom she put me on the floor and she used her body as a human shield to protect me because there0.99
00:19:22.620was an alleged sniper across the street threatening to shoot all the women and children
00:19:27.180those stories become anti-fragility for you to continue to to fight and have agency and to speak
00:19:34.700up and so that those stories like that growing up which i've had many a lot of them are in the book
00:19:41.020um are important to continue to pave a path forward that's going to be better for future generations
00:19:47.340Fair enough. So when people ask me, you know, when did you start thinking about writing the parasitic mind? And I tell them it's been simmering in my brain for 30 plus years because when I first entered academia, my goal was to found, which I eventually did, a new discipline called evolutionary consumption whereby I would be slowly Darwinizing all of the business disciplines.
00:20:14.340You can't really study entrepreneurship without knowing our biological heritage.
00:20:19.180You can't study behavioral economics or leadership or consumer behavior without invoking these evolutionary principles.
00:20:27.640Now, why is it that The Parasitic Mind was being written 30 years ago?
00:20:32.260It's because I was astounded that what seemed to me like a very obvious statement to make,
00:20:37.780which is that consumers and employees and employers are biological beings,
00:20:42.800to my social scientist colleagues, that was heretical.
00:20:58.360And so that's when I first started seeing how could intelligent people
00:21:02.840with many degrees before and after their names believe in such nonsense.0.92
00:21:07.520So that's sort of when the parasitic mind was already starting to form in my brain.
00:21:12.800So having given you sort of my genesis story of how I wrote those books, what's your genesis
00:21:18.040story for your latest book? For White Blonde Jew. I was, my first book had come out in 2020 on the
00:21:24.920heels of George Floyd. And despite it being a bestseller, I was silenced for immutable
00:21:30.520characteristics. I was either too white or too blonde or too much of a Jew. And this was during
00:21:35.340a very racially tense time in our country. And so my light bulb moment was 2021 when Israel was0.99
00:21:42.300being barraged with over 3000 rockets from Gaza targeting
00:21:45.900densely civilian populated areas in Israel. And I saw a few
00:21:50.640things happen in the United States, our legacy media and
00:21:53.860then my peers with millions of followers online started to
00:21:56.860conflate race with geopolitical issues that had nothing to do
00:22:00.520with race and I spoke up then in 2021. I then led that I became
00:22:06.840really curious and it connected me to the BDS movement. So
00:22:11.000unfortunately, when October 7th happened, I immediately knew the misinformation and the
00:22:16.280disinformation campaigns that were going to start attacking the West. And at the same time, I was
00:22:22.520writing my second book about creativity. It had nothing to do with my Judaism. It had nothing to
00:22:27.160do with the sovereign nation, Israel, the only democratic state in the Middle East. And I was
00:22:33.960part of the first wave of literary boycotts and distancing against Jewish authors and Israeli
00:22:39.320publishers after the war started uh so i wrote this book in response to that boycott and also
00:22:47.160as a form of historical insurance because i felt like i was screaming into the void and
00:22:52.920underwater and nobody was hearing me so it's really for my own sanity for my own sanity first
00:22:58.840and um you know this this project white blonde jew i'm i'm using the three words that were meant
00:23:07.080to silence me the most and i turn them into the architecture of this project so the the white
00:23:13.560section it's all about what happens when an identity becomes weaponized when we are replacing
00:23:20.440curiosity with dogma one of the chapters is called sitting shiva for dei bye bye and and then the
00:23:28.840blonde section there's some femininity re-infused in this section it's also i'm not a natural blonde
00:23:34.680and i'm talking about the roots of misinformation and disinformation and pre-bunking and how we
00:23:40.040start tackling what's happening that's fueled by algorithms lies are traveling six times faster
00:23:45.880than the truth right now and then once you publicly debunk that lie 70 exposed to the lie
00:23:51.320still believe the lie and then i go into the bds movement um which is terrible uh and then
00:24:00.840the Jewish section is all about what happens from my perspective, living beyond the hashtags and
00:24:07.800the headlines. And each chapter, there's deep personal narrative, but it's anchored in research
00:24:15.480and history, which I think is really important. And the Gadfather is also referencing the project.
00:24:22.360So the first descriptor of your title, White, apparently, as Stephen kindly mentioned, I come up with these terms that eventually go globally viral.0.66
00:24:36.160Let's see if we can make this next one go viral.
00:24:38.600So Schrodinger was a famous Austrian physicist who was a quantum theorist.
00:24:46.500So he talked about quantum entanglement, and so the idea is that you could have a state of A and not A at the same time, right?
00:24:53.980So that became, and then there was a thought experiment conducted called Schrodinger's cat, where the cat could both be alive and dead at the same time, right?
00:25:03.940And so I refer to Jews as being Schrodinger Jews, because we can be white and not white.0.95
00:25:12.300We can be meek, parasitic, little worms, but also the most powerful people that control everything under the sun.0.98
00:27:23.460And, but it's, I, I know we're going to talk about this too. I just don't, it will always exist. I feel like anti-Semitism is always going to exist and it's up to the courage of the citizens.
00:27:38.340Yeah, let's hold off on the inerrant nature of anti-sempathism for a second.
00:29:55.140So in the last chapter of the parasitic mind, where I'm sort of giving a call to action for how do people find their courage, I use the imagery of the honey badger.
00:30:04.800I ask people to activate their inner honey badger.
00:30:07.840And the reason why I use that, because the honey badger has been ranked by animal behaviorists and zoologists as the most ferocious animal in the animal kingdom, which is saying a lot because, of course, there are many ferocious animals in the animal kingdom.
00:30:23.640now it is the size of a small to medium-sized dog it operates in a very dangerous neighborhood
00:30:31.740in the African savannah with hyenas and lions and so on and yet it walks very very assuredly
00:30:42.360as if it is the absolute biggest baddest animal in the animal kingdom so much so that you could
00:30:48.660look at clips where you see, you know, a pride of adult lions passing by, and they will literally
00:30:56.160avoid it because they, sorry sir, we don't mean to interrupt you in your stroke. And so when I
00:31:02.420ask people to activate their inner honey badger, I'm asking you to stand tall in defending your,
00:31:08.060you know, your deontological, your foundational principles. Don't, you know, suck your thumb in0.99
00:31:12.560a fetal position and cry. So having said that, clearly now you are a honey badger because you've0.99
00:31:18.980had to go through all these. Is this something that you've always had or did you discover your
00:31:24.180honey badgerness later in life? I discovered my honey badgerness probably in middle school.
00:31:31.940I share a story where I was in biology class and I was sitting next to a student. She stands up
00:31:39.300and she announces to the class that she lost her wallet and then soon after she pointed at me and
00:31:45.500she said the Jew took it and then I stand up and my I push her down and so I was immediately sent
00:31:54.140to the principal's office and then my dad comes in shortly after and said that my daughter has
00:32:02.320my permission to deck and defend anyone who offends her people or her family. And so from
00:32:09.080that point on, I don't encourage physical violence. However, it's really important that
00:32:17.020we don't back down to bullies. And it's really important for us to continue to hold the line
00:32:21.660because we're the solution when that happens. So that was a good life lesson in middle school
00:32:27.200that I've carried with me. Great. So one of the, so I tell people that I serve as, do you know what
00:32:35.660the Rorschach inkblot test is? It's an old projective technique from psychoanalysis where
00:32:41.360if you're trying to get to the latent motives of someone, you give them a fuzzy amorphous stimulus
00:32:47.420and you ask them to describe what's there and depending on how you describe that Rorschach
00:32:53.220inkblot test, it says something about you, okay? And I always tell people that I am a Rorschach
00:32:59.400inkblot test in that depending on how you react to me, I'll tell you who you are. Meaning that
00:33:06.860usually very, I'll stick to men now, but it could also apply to women. Men who are very confident
00:33:14.080in who they are usually love my style, right? They're not in any way intimidated by it. They
00:33:21.320say, oh man, you're the best. The guys who do the Justin Trudeau crossing of the
00:33:26.560legs, who are more gentle, who are more effeminate, who are very sensitive, they
00:33:31.460say this is unbecoming of a professor to use satire, because professors should
00:33:37.400always look into the sky and pontificate profoundly while smoking a
00:33:42.560pipe. It is beneath us to ever have a sense of humor, to have a multifaceted
00:33:47.900personality. But it's that personality that gets me the billions of people who
00:33:52.640pay attention. If I only pontificated in a professorial style, which obviously I
00:33:56.960can also do, then I would be stuck within my silo. And so having said that, you
00:34:03.560know, you've seen someone who's soft-spoken and so on, are you able to
00:34:07.340navigate between sometimes being nurturing and soft as I might be when
00:34:12.260I'm speaking to my children versus when I'm super combative on social media? How
00:34:16.340do you navigate through these two modalities how i feel like i'm like a hybrid between a peaceful
00:34:22.500psychopath i mean no you have to and you have to you can't lose your sense of humor through this
00:34:29.540or your humanity and you try to protect your peace as much as you can so so do you use and
00:34:36.100forgive me i haven't read through the whole book do you use a lot of humor in in your book i there
00:34:42.020there are good doses of wit and humor um but i also wrote it to be fully transparent i wrote
00:34:48.900it when i was really angry and it was a it was my best friend for five months and so uh there
00:34:55.700there are moments where i've heard people are laughing which is good because i wrote them
00:35:00.660during during the those lighter periods but it it's a project that um needed to be released
00:35:07.780through me and it was it was a it was a best friend during that time and it was in response
00:35:12.340during a lot of it was soon after the war um and that was a tense time and so i was reading it uh
00:35:20.020back through the audio book uh when i was recording it and i i i can see that it there's there's some
00:35:29.220there's some sensitivity to it and there's there's some serious conversations and it's
00:35:34.100it's certainly not a comedy but there is levity in it while doing all of your research for the
00:35:38.980book including i think you went and visited the region several times what surprised you the most
00:35:44.980what what is it that you said oh my god i never knew this i don't know if there was so much of
00:35:50.660a surprise uh but i i always leave so inspired um one of my favorite luminaries and rabbis uh
00:35:59.940Rabbi Jonathan Sachs he says that if leadership is the solution then what is the fundamental
00:36:05.860problem and it's a lack of responsibility and every time I leave the region and every time I
00:36:11.540leave young men and women there who are fighting physical borders the level and amount of
00:36:17.460responsibility is always so inspiring to me and the resilience and the beauty and the sense of
00:36:23.140community and family and value is is something that i always take take with me uh how much
00:36:30.340time is that we're still doing about five more minutes five more minutes so okay uh i we promised
00:36:35.620that we'd talk a bit about sort of the trajectory of jew hatred uh of course i experienced it from
00:36:43.140being a child growing up in lebanon and moving to the united to canada then the united states
00:36:47.780are you optimistic that we could ever have a vaccine against jew hatred or is it a fundamental
00:36:55.740feature of the architecture of the human heart i'm a realist am i optimistic right now no i'm
00:37:04.700hopeful yes however right now the bds movement the boycott divestment and sanctions movement
00:37:11.300But Gad wrote an incredible book, The Parasitic Mind, and then also Suicidal Empathy, and I feel like that is the sugar to the cancer, and the vehicle is the BDS movement right now.
00:37:22.820And until we stop seeding disinformation and misinformation through our mainstream media institutions, until there's less of this outrage economy and mainstream legitimization, we have to start calling balls and strikes.
00:37:40.980So until we do, I don't foresee this getting better.
00:37:44.880And the BDS movement continues to exploit every legacy institution, politically, academically, socially, culturally,
00:37:53.640to make sure that they are delegitimizing not only Israel, not only the Jewish community, but our Western values.0.67
00:38:01.460I'll give a quick explanation of why I think Jew hatred will always exist.0.90
00:38:06.280And then I'll ask one last question, and then we'll open it up to the audience.0.82
00:38:09.800So there are many sources of Jew hatred.
00:38:12.640I mean, there are religious reasons why people hate the Jews in Christianity, of course, in Islam.0.59
00:38:19.400So there are the neo-Nazis that hate, there's the academic left that hates the Jews.
00:38:23.060But I think there is an even more fundamental psychological reason why Jews have been hated throughout societies and eras.
00:38:33.300So in psychology, there is an effect called the self-serving bias.
00:38:37.560The self-serving bias is the means by which people ascribe causality to their successes and failures.
00:38:45.620Most people ascribe successes internally.
00:38:49.520I did well on the exam because I'm smart and I studied hard.
00:38:53.040And they ascribe failures externally.1.00
00:38:55.820I did poorly on the exam because Professor Saad is a jerk, right?1.00
00:38:59.800Now, the Jew serves as the ultimate culprit for why I fail at the individual1.00
00:39:08.860and collective level, but that still doesn't explain why it should be the Jew0.99
00:39:13.240versus someone else. And here, I think the answer is because throughout history,0.55
00:39:18.980Jews have always existed in ecosystems where they are a minuscule minority but1.00
00:39:26.360boxing several weight classes above their weight, right? And now there are1.00
00:39:31.640other groups that have that too. Armenians in some places, the Lebanese have that.
00:39:35.480There are some East, Far East societies where you have that dynamics.
00:39:41.480Amy Chua, the mentor of JD Vance, who's a Yale professor, calls it market
00:39:48.260dominant minorities. Well, the Jews are the ultimate market dominant minority1.00
00:39:53.060because if I don't become the leading man in the next Avenger movie,0.97
00:40:15.340Now, in none of those cases is the statement true,0.99
00:40:18.380but it becomes easy to ascribe all failures to the Jew.0.77
00:40:21.440So Thomas Sowell, who probably once a month, I will tag President Trump and say, when are you going to give this guy the Presidential Medal of Freedom? He's 95, time is running out.
00:40:36.100Well, Thomas Sowell offered the greatest one-word answer for why Jew hatred exists.
00:40:43.280He was being interviewed by his colleague, I think Peter Robinson,
00:40:48.440and Peter Robinson asked him, how could the Jews not be hated?
00:40:53.360And so Thomas Sowell paused and he goes, fail.0.94
00:40:57.620So if the Jews suddenly became failures, then it would become a lot less likely that we would hate them.1.00
00:41:04.640But as long as those bastards are punching well above their weight class, then they're an easy target.1.00
00:41:11.480I want to share one last sentiment from the project.
00:41:15.660One of my friends, Rabbi Raphael Schor, he came out with a documentary called Tragic Awakening.
00:41:21.100And it expanded my perspective on Jew hatred.
00:41:26.020And he says that Talmudic scholars and Hitler had something in common.
00:41:31.640And it wasn't because we were a physical threat.
00:41:34.420it was because we are a moral and spiritual threat from the time we
00:41:39.020received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai and we are a threat to tyranny
00:41:43.520bullies and authoritative regimes because we lead with morality and
00:41:48.140education and innovation and creativity and freedom and liberty and that is the
00:41:53.440light that we have to continue to lead with and never let dim.
00:41:59.280Last question, which I have to ask my guests while they're on the show. I know right now we're promoting your latest book, but are there any future projects that you would like to use this opportunity to promote? Take it away, Alyssa.
00:42:15.120Oh, thank you. Right now my focus is not so sexy, but it's, um, it's on literary anti-semitism.
00:42:21.840Historically, literary anti-semitism has always targeted the characters in the story,
00:42:27.200and right now it's care, it's targeting the storyteller, and so my book launch event was
00:42:33.280canceled in Nashville, and I wrote this book also in response to these literary boycotts,
00:42:39.360and it's really important to understand that we no longer need to burn books we just need
00:42:47.120pressure campaigns and we really need to celebrate and encourage and honor the institutions that are
00:42:55.040are honoring our voices and not folding and not capitulating to pressure campaigns so that's
00:43:00.960that's something that i'm i'm really interested in wonderful thank you okay so we can now open it up
00:43:06.640your questions to Alyssa, I'll just sit here and nod with her next to her.
00:43:11.640Maybe if you could just repeat the question so the video would pick that up.
00:45:08.120I think we're in a culture war right now,
00:45:10.260and I think there is a spiritual component to it.1.00
00:45:13.600And I personally don't underestimate the power of stupidity,0.99
00:45:16.760part of this project is to reinstate some cognitive patience with critical0.99
00:45:23.580thinking skills so I have questions at the end of each chapter to create some
00:45:27.820dignified disagreement if we can I know that's probably hopeful maybe not so
00:45:32.180optimistic but I think that we need to get back to some centrist point of view
00:45:37.220where where we can be a little bit more dignified and not enraged in the product
00:45:44.300of the news that we're absorbing, whether it's on social media, which most of which are bots,
00:45:50.000a lot of it have foreign influence, and people need to understand that.
00:45:53.980I'll answer it. I won't necessarily talk about the spiritual part, but I'll talk about
00:45:58.540sort of the psychological and psychiatric part. Leon Festinger, who was the pioneer of cognitive
00:46:05.540dissonance theory, theory of cognitive dissonance, has an incredible quote, which I cite the quote
00:46:11.840in its entirety in one of the ending chapters of the parasitic mind about how difficult it is to
00:46:18.280get people to change their positions once that position is anchored and irrespective of the
00:46:25.260amount of evidence you give them to the contrary. So having said that, that's just the frailty of
00:46:32.540the architecture of the human mind. So there are two evolutionary psychologists, French evolution
00:46:38.400psychologist that wrote a great book called the enigma of reason where they
00:46:42.480argued that our faculty to reason did not evolve in order to achieve some
00:46:49.160objective truth but rather to win arguments and that speaks exactly to
00:46:54.660what you're saying which is Jessica Tarlov who some of you may know I hate
00:46:59.940that I know her name but I spent about five days going after and after her I1.00
00:47:05.640I think my wife was starting to get jealous at how much attention I was giving Jessica Tarloff to just trash her.
00:47:12.500So she's a Jewish woman who is proudly defending Abdul Al Sayyid, a Muslim brotherhood, certainly adjacent guy, because she's enlightened and she's so...
00:47:26.660How could it be that she could have such a position, to your point, when clearly she shouldn't be supporting such a guy?
00:47:34.760Well, it's because he's a Democrat. And therefore, my team is the blue team. Under no circumstance will I ever deviate from ensuring that my team wins.
00:47:46.380And the reason why I use the neuroparasitological framework in my work is precisely because it completely erases the neuronal ability of any species to invoke its survival instinct once it is parasitized.
00:48:02.980That's the power of that metaphor. And so to your point, once these parasitic
00:48:09.280ideas take hold of my brain, no amount of evidence is going to sway me away. Now
00:48:15.040that sounds too pessimistic because if that were true, then what's the point of
00:48:19.300the work that I do? How can I ever get somebody to change their mind? There are
00:48:23.140some people who are so parasitized that I've learned to avoid interacting with
00:48:27.340them because no amount of evidence that I'll ever show them will get them to0.98
00:48:30.820way but most people you could flip with enough patience a wood cricket Jew by0.91
00:48:42.820the way I literally see people on shows now just using the term like this I'm
00:48:47.980like damn I'm doing I use that so let me explain what that and sorry I don't want
00:48:56.260take away from so that so a wood cricket is an insect that abhors water in other0.94
00:49:04.480words it hasn't evolved to want to interact with water when it is
00:49:08.920parasitized by a neural parasite called the hair worm the hair worm needs the
00:49:14.500wood cricket to jump into water happily committing suicide because that's the
00:49:20.200only way that the neural parasite can complete its reproductive interest so
00:49:23.900once that hapless wood cricket is parasitized there is no critical thinking there is no invoking
00:49:31.180my survival instinct i proudly jump into water and commit suicide that's jessica tarlov i proudly0.95
00:49:38.540support those who wish to extinguish me rather than that mean vulgar god sad who actually thinks0.83
00:49:45.900there might be a problem with islam i'm enlightened jessica tarlov god sad is mean he doesn't really0.51
00:49:51.980understand islam self-destruction is never a good strategy and these individuals are using their0.70
00:49:58.380jewishness to give other people permission to erase our community and that is a wood cricket1.00
00:50:05.500We have a certain way of pronouncing her first name.1.00
00:52:50.180And just to summarize what the question was, how is it, what is the mechanism by which Jews box above their weight class and that they're so successful?0.53
00:52:59.200What are the mechanisms by which that's achieved?0.64
00:53:03.280My response is going to be a little bit more philosophical.
00:53:06.000As a link in a greater chain, what is instowed upon our people, essentially, are also the values that created Judeo-Christian values.
00:53:20.240And it's really important that we are not investing in buildings and monuments and statues to revere the past.
00:53:32.940However, we're continuing to educate future generations and imprint education and strong Judeo-Christian values on future generations to continue to move forward.
00:53:51.000We pride ourselves in education and family.
00:53:54.560And we're a little bit more conservative in that respect.
00:53:57.080But also part of it is there's a takoon attached to that, like a repair, always trying to be of service just to simply be of service.
00:54:08.900And I think when we tune out the noise, we're able to have that vision of what those societal holes are and try to innovate and make it better.
00:54:20.840I mean, there's so much incredible innovation coming out of Israel right now.
00:54:24.960there's also incredible open market engineering platforms solely for the advancement of other
00:54:31.760countries that couldn't afford these these these innovations so i i mean punching above our weight
00:54:38.660i think that when you i don't know i mean i think that when you just go back to basics and invest in
00:54:47.620your family and invest in your education and invest in your local communities maybe i could
00:54:53.300add a you know we're a storytelling animal so oftentimes but also that can that does contribute
00:54:59.300to a little bit of a trope like we can we we own everything we right you know so you there is the
00:55:05.460other thing i want to share about anti-semitism you you have to really be able to define what
00:55:11.460you're fighting and so jew hatred for instance it is this simple hatred towards jews as an
00:55:17.460an individual, as a people, or a country. And then the IRA definition. The state of Mississippi has
00:55:24.640embodied the IRA definition. I don't think it's codified it yet, but the International Holocaust0.54
00:55:29.420Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism is important too. There's 11 objective examples
00:55:35.960of how, you know, of red lines not to cross. However, you know, criticizing a government
00:55:44.080is part of democracy. Natan Sharansky goes into three Ds. I think it's important to understand
00:55:53.880so we're also not contributing to tropes. And, you know, I grew up in a secular home.
00:56:00.960I went to Hebrew school. We were all bar and bat mitzvah, but I also went to private Catholic
00:56:06.100school. And, you know, it's important to assimilate in the culture that you're living in and also
00:56:12.600contribute to its society and so yeah i was just going to say let me give you a story that might
00:56:20.560answer your question it's a personal story uh so after so i had done an uh and i'm not saying this
00:56:27.640to share my cv but it's relevant to the story i did i did an undergrad in mathematics and computer
00:56:33.160science so it's not exactly a slouch discipline uh after that i did an mba and i was going straight
00:56:39.020to then do my MS and PhD. But after I'd finished my MBA, one of the universities I was accepted
00:56:45.860at was at UC Irvine. At that point, I'd also been accepted to Cornell. So I didn't think
00:56:51.180that UC Irvine would win other than it's, you know, in Southern California, a beautiful
00:56:56.320place. And so I had gone to visit the campus and meet the professors. And one of my brothers
00:57:01.760who was a very successful entrepreneur living in Newport Beach was trying to convince me
00:57:07.920to maybe take a break from my studies, maybe work with him a few years as his younger brother,
00:57:14.260put on the proverbial suit, and then I could go back to do my PhD. Well, when my mother caught
00:57:19.800wind that that brother was trying to convince me to put a pause on my studies, and I returned
00:57:27.160to Montreal to see my family, she says, come, I want to talk to you in this other room. At that
00:57:32.720point, I'm maybe 24, so I'm already an adult. I'm like, am I in trouble here? What's happening?
00:58:44.600She goes, you know, my other son, he's a doctor.
00:58:50.220Meaning, again, that sure, sure, this guy is president of the United States, but, you know, doctor.
00:58:55.280And so that's, so without even invoking, you know, genetic differences that, you know, you often see an IQ test, Jews scoring higher, you don't need to invoke any of that. Just a culture that is punishing in its desire to always get more educated is going to succeed more than a culture that says that if you have a high GPA, you're acting white.0.77