In the wake of the arrest of a 22-year-old college student who has been charged with the murder of Charlie Kirk, it is important to remember that this young man was not born with a mind parasitized by other people. In fact, his mind was parasitized to the point that he was unable to make a rational decision. And in order to understand why this happened, we need to look at the parasitology of his mind.
00:00:00.080Hi everybody, this is Gad Saad. You've probably heard by now that the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk has been caught.
00:00:10.100He's a, I think, 22-year-old Utah resident who's a university student who apparently got a scholarship to attend, you know, a full scholarship financial ride.
00:00:25.000And so he comes from apparently a good background and so on. So it's not as though there is something intrinsically, you know, disastrous in his background that could explain why this happened.
00:00:37.220Not that, you know, anything could justify what happened to Charlie.
00:00:42.800But what I wanted to spend time today is talk about what I think should happen in terms of the opportunity to study parasitized minds.
00:00:56.280So when you think back of forensic psychiatry and forensic psychology, which, by the way, was an area that I had seriously thought about going into at one point.
00:01:08.120And I discuss why I didn't in the happiness book.
00:01:13.260What you often have are these experts who will interview, for example, serial killers to really get an academic understanding of what made them do the things that they do.
00:01:28.060Is it what percentage of it is due to nature?
00:01:43.580And so there's real value in trying to understand, you know, what are the dark forces that compel a serial killer to become a serial killer?
00:01:53.220And the classic example that I am thinking about in terms of an interview is the Iceman tapes where Dr. Park Dietz, who is arguably the most famous forensic psychiatrist in the United States.
00:02:15.380He's worked on many famous cases and I briefly discuss him in my forthcoming book, Suicidal Empathy, where I talk about how psychopaths, you know, have a lack of empathy.
00:02:26.320And the interaction between the Iceman and Park Dietz is really just illuminating.
00:02:36.100Because you really see right there in front of you what happens to a human being when they are completely bereft of remorse, of empathy, of a sense, you know, a conscience.
00:02:53.140Because at one point, the Iceman is, sorry, I have a bit of a cold, so that's why you're hearing me, you know, coughing and so on.
00:03:03.640The Iceman is explaining that, yeah, when he was younger, he would, you know, torture puppies and so on.
00:03:09.260And so Park Dietz asks him, well, how did that make you feel?
00:03:12.220And the Iceman is like surprised by this question.
00:03:15.760What do you mean how did it make me feel?
00:03:28.340And basically, the killer said, I felt nothing.
00:03:33.500So now let's move it to the assassin, the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk.
00:03:39.680What I would want to see, and I am willing to volunteer for that role, I would want to see a academic study of the process by which this kid's mind was parasitized.
00:04:00.840So in the same way, for example, where in psychology of decision making, if you want to study what are the cognitive processes by which someone is coming to a decision, there's what's called the eye tracking methodology, where you literally can track a person's eyes, how they're going through an informational display board or how they're going through a website.
00:04:20.320And actually, my former doctoral supervisor, Jay Russo, who's a cognitive psychologist and mathematical psychologist by training, has written papers on the eye tracking methodology.
00:04:33.360And so here you are literally breaking down at the granular level.
00:04:39.480What were the exact pieces of information that you looked at and in which order?
00:04:43.720So I would want that kind of analysis, but in terms of the parasitology of this alleged assassin's mind.
00:04:54.240How did you, what were the exact steps, the exact idea pathogens that parasitized your mind, that made you think that here I am, a 22-year-old kid, good background.
00:05:10.060I'm getting a full scholarship to university, I've got my whole life ahead of me, but the best decision that I could come up with moving forward on that fateful day two days ago is to go and assassinate a lovely human being with whom you may disagree on some points, but in a free society, all he's saying is, hey, let's talk.
00:05:36.760Well, that 22-year-old assassin, his mind was disordered.
00:05:41.720It was disordered in a way whereby he thought by him doing this, he's actually doing a great thing, right?
00:05:48.480As I keep repeating to people and, you know, I'll get someone like Elon Musk fully agreeing, I always say, and remember again those words,
00:05:59.360there is nothing in nature that is more dangerous than a parasitized mind.
00:06:05.260All the great calamities of history are because someone had a bad idea, right?
00:06:11.540Hitler thought, hey, there is a problem in the world, that problem is the Jews.
00:06:18.400If I come along now and institute a mechanism whereby we eradicate that problem, then hey, the world would be a better place.
00:06:27.260And so this 22-year-old got to where he got because of an orgiastic debauchery of parasitic thinking.
00:06:41.920And so I really hope that as they sit and try to understand, you know, why he did what he did, that they really focus on that specific aspect.
00:06:52.800It's not just about, you know, were you abused as a child?
00:06:56.280Did your daddy hug you enough or not hug you enough?
00:06:59.180Those are sort of the typical things that you look for.