The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - October 16, 2025


Northwest Sanity Forum - Parasitic Ideas and Suicidal Empathy (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_897)


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Gad Saad and Ari Hoffman join host Chris Ruffo to discuss the state of politics in Washington State, and why it s time to fight back against the people who have tightened their grip over the politics of our home state.

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00:00:00.320 Chris Ruffo, thanks for being here. I'm going to hand it off to you to intro the show here and play AMC.
00:00:05.120 I think you can use that one. I'll leave this one up here. So, go ahead, man.
00:00:08.180 Well, how is everyone? Oops. Is this one working? No.
00:00:11.120 Got to turn it on. Got to turn it on. Got to turn it on.
00:00:15.860 There you go.
00:00:18.000 All right, there we go. Good. How is everyone?
00:00:20.720 Fantastic. It's good to see everybody. Beautiful day here in the Northwest.
00:00:24.320 As someone said before, I live here. So, I actually really do care.
00:00:30.060 You know, a lot of the events that you do, you kind of fly in, you fly out.
00:00:33.000 You care about Cleveland for like maybe 12 hours and then you leave and you forget about it.
00:00:38.380 But it really does matter because this, I think, is the most beautiful state of all of our 50 states. Is it not?
00:00:44.960 Yeah.
00:00:45.360 And, you know, unfortunately, the natural beauty maintains itself, but the politics is not as beautiful as it should be in the great state of Washington.
00:00:57.520 And I think that today's program and tomorrow's program are going to go a long way to giving you all of the information and the inspiration to actually punch back against some of the really deranged and destructive people who have tightened their grip over the politics of this state.
00:01:18.060 They're not sending their best to Olympia.
00:01:21.240 And I think it's time to enact some serious changes.
00:01:25.500 And it's going to happen because of groups like this.
00:01:28.900 You know, Brian and Steve have done an incredible job setting up a permanent infrastructure.
00:01:34.440 And these are two gentlemen that could at any moment have checked out for a life of leisure at the beach somewhere.
00:01:41.740 But they've made this their home.
00:01:44.260 It's been their home.
00:01:45.420 And they're going to fight for what is right.
00:01:48.240 And so the infrastructure is really important.
00:01:50.840 The people, the actual flesh and blood of a political movement is very important.
00:01:56.200 And the ideas are important.
00:01:58.720 And that is my specialty.
00:02:00.180 I fight with ideas, with language, try to turn it into political reality.
00:02:04.540 And so I think, you know, half of the battle is really thinking clearly about the state of our politics, the state of our state, and what we can do to change it.
00:02:14.060 And I can think of no one better to give you a broad-based understanding of what's happening in our world than Dr. Gad Saad, who has been a friend of mine for a number of years.
00:02:24.600 But actually, just in the lobby earlier this morning was the first time I'd met him in person.
00:02:30.100 And so he is really someone that has a deep understanding of political ideas, of how culture changes, and I think will give us a sense of what we can do to fight this here in our home state.
00:02:45.660 Don't hold this against him, but he is a Canadian.
00:02:48.140 And, you know, Canadians are actually really valuable, you know, they're like the canaries in the coal mine, because however bad you think the politics is in Washington State, it's worse in Canada.
00:03:03.420 And so just as, you know, if you're in the kind of Seattle metro area, you feel like you're maybe five years ahead of what's going to hit the Midwest or the East Coast, you know, we're like oracles to people back East.
00:03:14.200 You know, whenever I go to D.C. or New York, they're always, you know, I have, you know, I'm like an oracle or a sage.
00:03:21.820 I can tell the future. It's really amazing.
00:03:24.020 But I'm actually not predicting the future at all. I'm just explaining to them abstractly what's happening in Seattle.
00:03:29.340 You know, what's next? What's happening? And so Gad Saad is like 10 years ahead.
00:03:33.700 You know, he really is ahead of it. And so we want to welcome to the stage Gad Saad.
00:03:38.180 Also in conversation with Ari Hoffman, who is, you know, holding it down here in Washington.
00:03:42.480 He's got that nitty gritty insight. So it's going to be a great conversation.
00:03:46.540 Let's give them a huge warm Washington welcome and hear what they have to say.
00:03:50.000 All right. Hi, everybody. Just a couple of housekeeping items before I get going.
00:04:07.960 Number one, there's a bunch of signed copies of The Parasitic Mind, which I spent about 40, 45 minutes signing for you.
00:04:14.760 You don't have to pay for them if you're at the conference.
00:04:16.980 My understanding is you go and pick one up outside. So make sure to pick yours up.
00:04:22.320 Number two, usually I would be dressed only a bit more formally than I am now, possibly coming with my velvet red suit.
00:04:31.600 But I'm not because we were stranded in a really, really difficult place to be stranded in Bermuda.
00:04:38.660 We were on a family vacation for two weeks, and then we were supposed to return to Montreal, our home city, and then fly from Montreal to Seattle.
00:04:48.680 But then due to the monopolistic powers of Air Canada, they went on strike, the stewardesses.
00:04:55.480 And so we ended up staying a few extra days in Bermuda.
00:05:00.140 So I don't – this is the best I can do in terms of vacation clothes, sartorial clothes.
00:05:05.980 Thank you.
00:05:08.100 And so hopefully I can get out of here at some point.
00:05:12.220 It looks like Thursday might be the day, but maybe you'll see me hanging around here at an Antifa encampment later this week in Seattle.
00:05:19.540 All right, so let's get going.
00:05:23.180 So today what I'd like to do is talk about many of the ideas that I've been warning people about, as Chris mentioned, never mind for 10 years, for 25 years.
00:05:33.780 Because I've been a professor now.
00:05:35.180 This is going to be my 32nd year as a professor.
00:05:38.820 And if you really want to understand the craziness, all of the crazy ideas stem from the university ecosystem.
00:05:46.340 And I've been warning people for years.
00:05:49.860 People are starting to pay attention, but regrettably maybe it's slightly a bit too late.
00:05:53.880 But maybe we can still turn it around.
00:05:55.180 So I'll talk about the parasitic mind.
00:05:56.940 And then I'll mention a bit some of the key points from my forthcoming book titled Suicidal Empathy,
00:06:04.640 which based on sort of the virality of the term, it might end up being even a bigger success than parasitic mind.
00:06:12.320 So please make sure to go out and pre-order your copy when it's available.
00:06:15.280 And I'll also talk a bit about some of the Jew hatred that I thought I had escaped long ago in Lebanon,
00:06:22.740 but has certainly come back with full gusto and force.
00:06:27.880 You are the first to know of my new affiliation, by the way, starting, I think it was August 16th, so a couple days ago.
00:06:37.100 I was a visiting professor at Northwood University, which is referred to as the Free Enterprise University.
00:06:42.980 And this next year, I will be a visiting scholar at the University of Mississippi,
00:06:48.360 the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom, where they defend...
00:06:53.980 It's sad to say, but in academia, being at a place where people defend Judeo-Christian ethics,
00:07:04.540 American exceptionalism, the deontological principles that make the West great,
00:07:10.640 you need to go to Ole Miss to be able to find like-minded people.
00:07:16.040 And actually, there's quite a few centers of freedom that are sprouting across several universities,
00:07:23.720 many of which are in the South.
00:07:25.940 And so, maybe this is a good sort of harbinger of what's to come.
00:07:31.800 All right, so let's get going.
00:07:34.420 So let me tell you a bit about my childhood in Lebanon,
00:07:37.760 because in a sense, it helped me understand some of the parasitic ideas
00:07:43.400 that we now see so well entrenched in the West.
00:07:47.000 So we were part of the last group of Lebanese Jews that had remained in Lebanon until the mid-70s.
00:07:55.960 Much of my extended family had already left, most of them to Israel,
00:08:01.300 but some to France, some to Canada.
00:08:03.580 And then when the Civil War broke out in the mid-70s,
00:08:06.180 it became impossible to be Jewish in Lebanon.
00:08:08.720 And so the photo on the left is the one, actually, this is very close to where my house was in Lebanon.
00:08:15.640 And the photo on the right, regrettably, is what my childhood looked like when I was 10 and 11 years old.
00:08:26.880 The first time that I ever remember that I'm cognizant of having experienced Jew hatred in Lebanon,
00:08:34.660 many people refer to Lebanon as the Paris of the Middle East.
00:08:38.720 And as a multi, you know, pluralistic, multicultural, multi-ethnic society.
00:08:45.620 I mean, yes, in the context of the Middle East.
00:08:48.900 Tolerance in the Middle East is not necessarily tolerance as you would understand it in the West.
00:08:53.560 And so the first time that I was exposed to really a disturbing exemplar of Jew hatred
00:09:01.200 was when, if you see the gentleman there, Gamal Abdel Nasser,
00:09:05.300 who was a pan-Arabist, the president of Egypt.
00:09:08.720 Who was very much revered by all the Arab nations because he was trying to reunite all of the Arabs.
00:09:13.860 And when he passed away in 1970, I hadn't yet turned six.
00:09:17.640 He passed away.
00:09:18.720 And as often happens in the Middle East, people take to the street.
00:09:21.460 They start doing this kind of fervor and lamentations and religious incantations.
00:09:26.080 But they all kept singing as they were going down, proceeding down my street,
00:09:30.920 death to Jews, death to Jews.
00:09:32.980 And I turned to my mother as a five-year-old boy and I asked her,
00:09:36.440 why are they saying death to Jews because this guy passed away?
00:09:39.200 And she just said, you know, shut up, keep your head down.
00:09:41.480 And that was the first time that I experienced what happens in the Middle East
00:09:46.920 where every single calamity is ultimately blamed on the Jews.
00:09:50.520 And I hate to say it, that in interacting with people on social media,
00:09:55.200 that reflex has come back with full throttle, with full force.
00:10:00.160 Every possible calamity that you could think of is blamed on me, literally.
00:10:05.100 I am the head of the Mossad who is orchestrating all of the calamities in the world.
00:10:09.840 This is what happens when your brain is parasitized by Jew hatred.
00:10:14.200 And the gentleman on the right, I don't know if you could read, he wrote death to all Jews.
00:10:19.160 This is where the meme, which I always refer to the Jews as the evil Jews,
00:10:24.380 it actually comes from this gentleman.
00:10:26.080 If you're going to exterminate us, at least have the decency to know how to spell us.
00:10:33.100 This is a photo of a class picture.
00:10:37.020 This is, I'm probably around nine.
00:10:38.480 I'm in the first row, second from my left with the slightly longish hair.
00:10:44.560 And the teacher asks the class, I mean, not during this particular photo,
00:10:50.060 but in the classroom, for everybody to stand up and turn
00:10:53.660 and tell the class what they want to be when they grow up.
00:10:56.940 I want to be a policeman.
00:10:58.440 I want to be a nurse.
00:10:59.520 I want to be a doctor.
00:11:00.420 I want to be a soccer player.
00:11:01.500 Well, one of the kids here said,
00:11:03.900 when I grow up, I want to be a Jew killer to everybody's raucous laughter and clapping, right?
00:11:10.640 It was totally normal to say this.
00:11:12.860 He fully knew that there were two Jewish kids in that classroom.
00:11:15.800 I grew up with that kid, but it was perfectly normalized.
00:11:19.120 This is intolerant Paris of the Middle East.
00:11:23.940 This is actual newspaper clippings from my brother
00:11:28.520 who had won the Lebanese Judo Championship several years in a row.
00:11:32.700 Well, it was quite shameful in a culture of honor and shame
00:11:36.740 to have a lowly Jew winning the Lebanese championship.
00:11:41.100 And so he was visited by some gentleman
00:11:43.080 after he had won the championship several years in a row.
00:11:47.440 And it was explained to him that it was time for him to retire,
00:11:51.240 lest there might be some accident that might befall him.
00:11:54.680 And he wasn't willing to retire.
00:11:56.580 He ended up leaving Lebanon in 1973 before the Civil War.
00:12:01.080 And he pursued his career in France.
00:12:04.920 France has a big history of judo, also soccer.
00:12:10.080 Now, in 1976, ironically, when we had already emigrated to Montreal,
00:12:15.020 the 1976 Montreal Olympics happened, well, in Montreal.
00:12:20.320 And he ended up representing Lebanon in the 1976 Olympics.
00:12:25.960 So the guy who suffered from a terminal disease called being Jewish in 1973
00:12:31.320 and had to leave Lebanon, we can overlook the fact that you're Jewish
00:12:35.180 because at least you can carry the Lebanese flag.
00:12:37.760 He unfortunately ended up losing in the first round, I think, to a Bulgarian.
00:12:41.800 But again, that gives you a sense of what it is to be a religious minority
00:12:45.620 in beautiful, tolerant Lebanon.
00:12:47.660 This is an actual photo of my parents who were married in 1950.
00:12:53.980 They're, thank God, they're both still alive.
00:12:56.620 My father's 95, my mother's 91.
00:12:59.240 Thank you.
00:13:02.000 On one of the return trips to Lebanon,
00:13:05.360 after we had emigrated to Montreal,
00:13:07.500 they still had business interests in Lebanon.
00:13:09.800 They were kidnapped by Fatah,
00:13:12.160 which was one of the really nasty Palestinian groups.
00:13:15.580 And some really bad things happened to them for quite a few days,
00:13:18.560 about eight days.
00:13:19.700 And then luckily, because of our political connections,
00:13:22.120 we were able to get them out.
00:13:24.240 So many of the hostage stories that I hear today happening,
00:13:29.140 you know, after October 7th,
00:13:30.840 was my childhood.
00:13:35.100 One more story about sort of my background.
00:13:37.880 And the reason why I tell this story
00:13:39.420 is because Lebanon is the perfect model
00:13:42.380 of what happens to a society
00:13:43.940 that is organized along identity politic lines, right?
00:13:47.280 Everything in Lebanon is viewed through the prism
00:13:49.620 of your religious apakhtonauts, your belonging.
00:13:52.940 On your internal ID card, if the cops stop you,
00:13:56.420 they don't care about your height
00:13:57.740 or about your eye color or your weight.
00:13:59.940 The most conspicuous thing is what is your religion, right?
00:14:04.640 As a matter of fact, Lebanon,
00:14:05.960 the seats, who gets to be president,
00:14:09.780 who gets to be prime minister,
00:14:11.260 who gets to be speaker of the house,
00:14:13.160 how many seats are allotted to each members in parliament
00:14:16.460 depends on your religion.
00:14:19.600 So, you know, to see the West saying,
00:14:23.240 hey, this is a great idea.
00:14:24.420 Let's really double down on identity politics.
00:14:26.920 Well, as someone who comes from such a society,
00:14:28.820 it never ends up well for its citizens.
00:14:33.700 So last story here.
00:14:36.040 As we were leaving on that fateful day
00:14:38.600 in late October 1975,
00:14:41.880 Lebanon, for good, to move to Montreal,
00:14:44.820 as we were clearing the airspace of Lebanon,
00:14:48.460 the pilot said,
00:14:50.120 okay, we've now cleared the Lebanese airspace.
00:14:52.360 And so my mother takes out a Star of David,
00:14:54.760 puts it around my neck and says,
00:14:56.340 well, now you can wear this, be proud of who you are,
00:14:59.240 and not hide your identity.
00:15:00.780 Now, hold on to the story.
00:15:02.580 Fast forward to a couple of weeks after October 7th, 2023,
00:15:07.940 my son, who is sitting in this room,
00:15:10.620 had gone to play a soccer match
00:15:12.440 in the east end of Montreal,
00:15:14.180 where there's a particular demographic group
00:15:17.000 that is now quite prevalent there.
00:15:18.780 And as he and my wife picked me up from the cafe
00:15:21.900 where I was working on, you know, my latest book,
00:15:25.160 he said to me,
00:15:26.060 Daddy, had you come to watch me play soccer today,
00:15:29.540 and if you were wearing a Star of David, you'd be dead.
00:15:33.140 So 45 years ago, I escaped Lebanon
00:15:36.420 so that I can finally put a Star of David.
00:15:39.220 45 years later,
00:15:40.640 I better not wear a Star of David in Montreal, Lebanon.
00:15:43.240 And just to give you a sense of how bad it is in Montreal,
00:15:47.920 this is an article that I had written
00:15:49.420 in the National Post a while ago
00:15:50.940 about how difficult it is to be Jewish
00:15:52.700 at my university, my home university,
00:15:55.540 the one that I hold tenure at,
00:15:58.680 has been referred to colloquially
00:16:01.900 as Gaza University for well over 20 years.
00:16:04.880 Benjamin Netanyahu had been canceled.
00:16:07.820 He had been stopped from speaking there back in 2002.
00:16:10.960 And again, that arises
00:16:12.960 because the demographic realities
00:16:15.060 are such that it now empowers those people
00:16:18.540 to be able to do what they do.
00:16:20.040 So what you're seeing in terms of the college protest
00:16:22.880 with the Hamas and the Kafiyah and all this,
00:16:25.420 it's just because demography is destiny, right?
00:16:28.000 It doesn't take a fancy professor to explain to you
00:16:30.480 that if you bring in people into your society,
00:16:34.060 where according to a wide range of non-partisan surveys,
00:16:37.580 the people that are coming from those societies,
00:16:39.160 when they are surveyed,
00:16:41.880 they exhibit somewhere between 95% to 99% endemic Jew hatred.
00:16:47.620 So if you sample 1,000 people,
00:16:50.160 950 to 990 of them, right,
00:16:53.540 are saying that, yeah, Jews, they're a real problem.
00:16:56.100 We got to get rid of the Jews.
00:16:57.500 So if you let in millions of such people into your society,
00:17:01.240 do you think that Jew hatred is going to go up
00:17:03.060 or it's going to go down?
00:17:03.940 So it doesn't take a fancy evolutionary behavioral scientist
00:17:08.040 to explain to you what the dynamics will be.
00:17:10.140 So this is actually, the photo on the right is the Montreal police.
00:17:15.000 This is not campus police.
00:17:16.160 This is the Montreal SWAT police standing there with all their attire
00:17:21.100 to protect the Jewish students and the professors to walk into campus.
00:17:25.900 So I've now taken a two-year leave of absence,
00:17:29.160 and inshallah, as we say in the Middle East,
00:17:32.260 maybe this will turn into a permanent leave,
00:17:34.620 and I'll be moving to the United States.
00:17:36.200 We'll see.
00:17:37.120 Because it's no longer feasible for me to walk on campus.
00:17:39.920 Because unlike the Jewish students who are otherwise anonymous,
00:17:43.620 I'm not anonymous,
00:17:44.880 and so it's become very, very difficult for me to actually walk on campus.
00:17:48.000 That should make the hair in the back of your neck really tingle.
00:17:53.160 Because as Chris said, what happens there is going to happen here.
00:17:57.820 Now you think you're protected,
00:17:59.140 because the United States is a huge country.
00:18:01.180 It's 340 million people.
00:18:03.800 But again, it's the boiling frog parable, right?
00:18:07.500 By the time that you notice it, it's too late, right?
00:18:10.580 In some cases, it takes five years for a society to get Islamized.
00:18:14.080 In some cases, it takes 500 years.
00:18:15.580 But once the process begins,
00:18:18.020 unless there is a cataclysmic autocorrection,
00:18:21.020 the patterns are very clear.
00:18:22.880 So you have been forewarned.
00:18:25.660 Now, how did I first get into all of this parasitic stuff?
00:18:31.300 My scientific work is in applying evolutionary biology
00:18:35.160 and studying human behavior,
00:18:38.360 specifically consumer behavior, economic behavior.
00:18:41.720 And so I founded a field,
00:18:43.760 which I coined evolutionary consumer behavior,
00:18:46.440 where I bring in principles, biological principles,
00:18:49.340 to explain the biological underpinnings
00:18:51.920 of what makes us the consumers that we are.
00:18:54.260 How do hormones affect our behavior, for example?
00:18:57.340 Well, to me, that seemed like a pretty obvious statement to make.
00:19:01.300 Of course, human beings in general,
00:19:03.160 and consumers in particular, are biological beings.
00:19:06.240 But to nearly every single one of my social science colleagues,
00:19:11.160 that was complete heresy.
00:19:14.280 What the hell are you talking about?
00:19:15.680 We're biological beings.
00:19:16.800 No way.
00:19:17.680 We transcend our biology.
00:19:20.020 Biology matters for the mosquito.
00:19:22.100 Biology matters for the zebra, for your dog.
00:19:24.840 But surely you're not saying, Professor Saad,
00:19:26.960 that biology affects human behavior.
00:19:29.680 Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying, imbecile, right?
00:19:32.480 But it was very, very difficult for all of my, you know,
00:19:36.020 highfalutin progressive lisp colleagues
00:19:38.100 to be able to accept the most banal statement
00:19:41.060 that, of course, you can't study human behavior
00:19:43.740 void of an understanding of our biological imperatives.
00:19:47.560 So now you could start seeing
00:19:49.000 how then the transgender activism,
00:19:51.860 if your genitalia and your chromosomes don't explain anything,
00:19:55.700 then up is down, left is right,
00:19:57.760 men are women, and so on.
00:19:58.920 And so I started seeing these parasitic ideas
00:20:01.780 30-plus years ago
00:20:03.080 and standing on top of the mountain and warning people,
00:20:05.900 but people weren't willing to listen.
00:20:07.660 Well, now they're listening.
00:20:10.300 So let me explain why I use this parasitic framework.
00:20:15.380 So the two greatest threats facing humanity,
00:20:19.120 certainly in our evolutionary history,
00:20:20.780 would be biological pathogens.
00:20:23.080 I mean, mosquitoes kill more people throughout history
00:20:26.940 than all other animals combined by many orders of magnitude, right?
00:20:31.920 And it's a pathogen that kills the human,
00:20:34.840 whether it be yellow fever or whether it be malaria.
00:20:38.500 So it could be fungi, it could be bacteria,
00:20:41.100 it could be viruses, it could be parasites.
00:20:45.100 Biological pathogens have killed more people
00:20:47.400 than all other things combined.
00:20:48.860 Well, in my book, I argue that human beings can be parasitized
00:20:52.880 by a second class of pathogens,
00:20:54.920 and I call these ideological pathogens,
00:20:58.120 or parasitic ideas, or idea pathogens.
00:21:01.280 And let me explain how I got that Eureka.
00:21:05.060 So in nature, you have...
00:21:08.400 The field of parasitology is the study of the interaction
00:21:11.280 between parasites and hosts.
00:21:12.860 And there are innumerable examples of that.
00:21:16.400 So for example, a tapeworm can parasitize your intestinal tract.
00:21:21.000 But a neuroparasite is one that looks to ultimately end up
00:21:26.340 in the host's brain, altering its circuitry
00:21:30.040 to typically suit its reproductive interest, right?
00:21:33.920 And so you could now see how it becomes
00:21:36.160 a very, very powerful metaphor
00:21:38.740 to then use for ideological parasitic ideas.
00:21:42.160 So if you look at the top image to the left,
00:21:46.520 you have a spider wasp,
00:21:48.880 which is much smaller than the spider
00:21:51.160 that it tries to zombify.
00:21:53.660 Once it stings it,
00:21:55.560 it renders the spider completely zombified.
00:21:59.480 It then drags it to its burrow,
00:22:03.100 lays its eggs on it,
00:22:05.260 and then as the eggs hatch,
00:22:07.980 they eat the spider in vivo.
00:22:10.640 The spider is fully conscious,
00:22:12.680 it's fully aware,
00:22:13.600 but it is fully parasitized.
00:22:15.140 Now, it's a very easy analogy to make
00:22:17.660 that political correctness
00:22:19.000 is akin to the spider wasp sting, right?
00:22:22.800 We merrily walk to the abyss of infinite lunacy
00:22:25.880 saying, yes, yes, of course,
00:22:27.520 men too can menstruate.
00:22:29.240 Yes, yes, of course,
00:22:30.120 men too can bear children.
00:22:31.400 And so you can begin to see
00:22:33.520 why that analogy
00:22:35.360 between actual physical brain worms
00:22:38.540 and ideological brain worms
00:22:39.940 is so powerful.
00:22:41.020 I won't go through all of these,
00:22:42.220 but the other one
00:22:43.680 that some of you may have heard of
00:22:45.180 is Toxoplasma gondii,
00:22:48.600 which infects,
00:22:49.600 actually it can infect human brains,
00:22:51.380 but the classic example
00:22:52.540 is when it infects the brains of mice,
00:22:55.120 when it is infected
00:22:56.100 by this particular neuroparasite,
00:22:58.200 it loses its innate fear of cats
00:23:00.460 and it actually becomes sexually attracted
00:23:02.720 to the cat's urine,
00:23:03.920 which is not a very good mating strategy
00:23:06.300 for the mouse.
00:23:08.260 But then I'm going to talk about the wood cricket
00:23:10.560 because some of you have seen me use the term
00:23:12.760 which has now become viral
00:23:14.160 when I refer to someone as a wood cricket Jew.
00:23:17.600 And so you'll see in a second,
00:23:19.100 if you're not familiar with that term,
00:23:20.700 where it comes from,
00:23:22.220 the wood cricket abhors water.
00:23:24.840 It wants nothing to do with water.
00:23:26.280 But when it is parasitized by a hair worm,
00:23:29.340 the hair worm needs the wood cricket
00:23:31.160 to jump into the water
00:23:33.420 in order for it to complete
00:23:34.640 its reproductive cycle.
00:23:36.120 And jumping into the water,
00:23:37.760 it happily commits suicide.
00:23:40.440 So again, you can now see
00:23:41.920 how powerful that is as an analogy.
00:23:45.560 So now we're going to come
00:23:46.380 to some human wood crickets.
00:23:49.580 So queers for Palestine
00:23:50.780 is the perfect example of wood crickets.
00:23:53.640 If you are queer,
00:23:57.100 more power to you.
00:23:58.340 Let's celebrate your queerness.
00:24:00.700 Rah, rah.
00:24:01.600 But if that is the most important marker
00:24:05.920 of your identity,
00:24:07.420 then should you not be putting
00:24:09.580 all of your chips behind Tel Aviv,
00:24:12.160 which happens to be one of the most
00:24:13.900 queer-friendly societies in the world,
00:24:16.000 short of Montreal,
00:24:17.580 short of San Francisco,
00:24:19.380 short of New York,
00:24:20.200 probably Tel Aviv is in the top five
00:24:22.400 most queer-friendly societies.
00:24:24.080 But no.
00:24:24.820 When you are a wood crooked queer,
00:24:26.960 then what happens
00:24:27.940 is you put all your chips behind Gaza
00:24:31.500 because it turns out,
00:24:32.860 I'm here to tell you,
00:24:34.080 that Gaza has come up
00:24:35.120 with a very, very powerful
00:24:36.440 100% conversion therapy.
00:24:38.660 It's a gravity-based conversion therapy.
00:24:42.860 We take you from the top building
00:24:44.880 as inscribed by the noble faith of Islam,
00:24:47.380 and we throw you head first,
00:24:49.620 and that usually solves
00:24:50.760 your queerness issues.
00:24:53.480 Anna Epstein,
00:24:54.600 Jewish Anna Epstein,
00:24:56.120 is a wood cricket Jew
00:24:57.600 because she was so progressive
00:24:58.880 at Boston University
00:25:00.020 that when the October 7th children,
00:25:05.040 who were three months old
00:25:06.160 and four months old,
00:25:07.300 were kidnapped, right?
00:25:08.440 They couldn't have been IDF soldiers,
00:25:10.380 if that's the argument
00:25:11.460 you're going to use.
00:25:12.360 They're children, infants.
00:25:14.520 She was ripping them down,
00:25:16.120 and when she was caught on tape,
00:25:18.040 she said,
00:25:18.420 but I'm Jewish.
00:25:19.920 Now, what would have happened
00:25:21.040 to Anna Epstein
00:25:22.040 had she been at that
00:25:23.200 Nova dance festival?
00:25:25.380 All of her progressive markers
00:25:27.780 would not have saved her
00:25:28.980 from the exact same gang graves
00:25:30.860 as all the other hapless women
00:25:33.020 who were there,
00:25:33.760 but that's what happens
00:25:34.920 when you become a wood cricket.
00:25:36.440 And then finally,
00:25:37.620 this guy,
00:25:38.180 I actually have him front and center
00:25:39.700 in my forthcoming book
00:25:40.900 on suicidal empathy.
00:25:43.080 He is a Norwegian man
00:25:45.000 who defines himself
00:25:47.920 as anti-racist
00:25:49.180 and a male feminist.
00:25:52.060 Well, he was sodomized
00:25:54.100 by a Somali immigrant,
00:25:57.000 and when the Somali immigrant
00:25:59.060 was caught,
00:26:01.140 he served a very minimal sentence,
00:26:03.340 I think two, three years,
00:26:05.060 because the Norwegians
00:26:06.060 are a lot more empathetic
00:26:07.540 than all of you degenerates
00:26:09.420 who believe
00:26:09.880 that there should be repercussions
00:26:11.060 for your crimes.
00:26:12.320 And so after he was about
00:26:14.380 to be released,
00:26:15.040 he was going to be deported
00:26:16.740 back to Norway.
00:26:18.040 Well, this guy came out
00:26:19.240 and said that he feels
00:26:20.340 terribly guilty
00:26:21.620 that this beautiful Somali
00:26:23.760 sodomizer
00:26:24.400 was going to be deported
00:26:25.900 to Mogadishu
00:26:26.920 because then he wouldn't be able
00:26:28.800 to fully live out his life
00:26:31.280 the way that he wanted.
00:26:32.280 Or to use the terms
00:26:33.380 of Abraham Maslow,
00:26:34.640 he can't be fully self-actualized
00:26:36.300 in Mogadishu.
00:26:37.840 Well, I'm here to tell you
00:26:38.880 that it is not part
00:26:40.460 of our evolutionary-based
00:26:42.020 emotional repertoire
00:26:42.940 to feel empathy
00:26:44.380 for those who sodomize us.
00:26:46.300 But when you become
00:26:47.720 a suicidally empathetic person,
00:26:50.700 as regrettably,
00:26:51.780 we now have a terminal
00:26:53.640 stage four manifestation
00:26:55.640 of suicidal empathy
00:26:56.720 in the West.
00:26:57.620 That's what happens.
00:26:58.760 I care so much
00:26:59.880 about the one who raped me
00:27:01.160 that I can't bear to think
00:27:03.320 that he's going to be,
00:27:04.380 you know,
00:27:05.940 shipped back to Mogadishu.
00:27:08.600 Here's another example.
00:27:09.860 This is from
00:27:10.220 The Parasitic Mind.
00:27:11.060 I won't read the actual passage
00:27:14.200 that I wrote.
00:27:14.820 I'll just explain it.
00:27:16.180 Tal Nitsan
00:27:16.920 was a Jewish doctoral student
00:27:19.800 who was working
00:27:21.500 on a research project
00:27:23.860 at Hebrew University,
00:27:24.900 which is one of the
00:27:25.880 most prestigious universities
00:27:27.760 in Israel,
00:27:28.740 in Jerusalem.
00:27:30.340 She wanted to identify
00:27:31.900 the rampant rape
00:27:34.100 of Palestinian women
00:27:36.500 by IDF soldiers.
00:27:38.780 Well, she went ahead
00:27:40.040 and did all her research,
00:27:41.540 and it's not as though
00:27:42.260 she only asked IDF soldiers
00:27:43.980 whether they rape women.
00:27:45.300 She went to the Palestinians.
00:27:46.860 She looked for actual records.
00:27:48.300 I mean, it was a doctoral work,
00:27:50.360 and she wasn't able
00:27:51.580 to identify a single documented case
00:27:54.340 of an IDF soldier
00:27:56.760 raping a Palestinian woman.
00:27:59.000 Now, usually in science,
00:28:00.700 if you have epistemological humility,
00:28:03.040 if your hypothesis is falsified,
00:28:05.000 well, it happens,
00:28:05.820 and so be it.
00:28:07.200 But she can't let go
00:28:08.940 of the fact
00:28:09.760 that her own people,
00:28:11.500 she's Israeli and Jewish,
00:28:13.840 but she's so progressive
00:28:14.980 that she is wedded
00:28:16.260 to the idea
00:28:16.860 that the IDF
00:28:18.260 are the new instantiation
00:28:19.680 of Nazism.
00:28:20.960 So what do you think
00:28:21.860 she came up with
00:28:23.000 to be able to still
00:28:24.180 fully support her hypothesis?
00:28:26.360 You ready?
00:28:28.200 The fact that there is
00:28:29.960 not a single woman
00:28:31.240 that was raped
00:28:32.240 by the IDF soldiers
00:28:33.560 shows you
00:28:34.740 how much
00:28:35.800 the Jews
00:28:36.820 dehumanized
00:28:38.300 the Palestinian women
00:28:39.420 that they don't even
00:28:40.540 consider them
00:28:41.280 worthy of rape.
00:28:42.340 You heard that?
00:28:45.300 So if she had found
00:28:47.000 that the IDF soldiers
00:28:48.660 had raped women,
00:28:50.320 this would prove
00:28:51.060 that the IDF soldiers
00:28:52.180 are evil.
00:28:53.080 And if she finds
00:28:53.960 that not a single case
00:28:55.380 of rape has occurred,
00:28:57.900 that exactly also proves
00:28:59.480 how evil they are.
00:29:00.580 All roads lead
00:29:01.660 to the Jews being evil.
00:29:03.500 And in this case,
00:29:04.560 as espoused
00:29:05.300 by a fellow Jew.
00:29:06.560 That's what
00:29:07.040 suicidal empathy is.
00:29:09.260 So what are some
00:29:10.700 of the parasitic ideas
00:29:11.680 that I discuss
00:29:12.300 in the book?
00:29:14.700 The granddaddy
00:29:15.480 of them all
00:29:16.000 is postmodernism
00:29:17.060 because that is
00:29:18.820 the framework
00:29:20.580 that allows
00:29:21.280 all of the other
00:29:22.100 parasitic ideas
00:29:23.260 to flourish,
00:29:23.960 whether it be
00:29:24.420 cultural relativism
00:29:25.580 or social constructivism
00:29:27.400 or radical feminism.
00:29:28.980 It all comes
00:29:29.820 from postmodernism
00:29:30.920 which purports
00:29:31.760 that there are
00:29:32.800 no objective truths.
00:29:34.080 There are no
00:29:34.760 aesthetic
00:29:35.340 objective standards.
00:29:37.900 There is no
00:29:39.600 musical universal
00:29:41.460 tones
00:29:42.540 that people
00:29:43.440 are attracted to.
00:29:45.060 There is no
00:29:45.740 epistemological truth.
00:29:47.220 Up is down,
00:29:48.060 left is right.
00:29:48.980 It's my truth,
00:29:49.980 not the truth.
00:29:51.560 And so you could imagine
00:29:52.480 that if you
00:29:53.980 espouse this kind
00:29:55.480 of intellectual terrorism
00:29:57.380 for 30,
00:29:58.080 40, 50 years,
00:29:58.980 you end up
00:29:59.760 with many of the
00:30:00.600 problems we see today.
00:30:02.340 And I'll give you
00:30:03.120 some examples of these.
00:30:04.120 I'm only bringing
00:30:06.460 Canadian examples
00:30:07.300 because as Chris said,
00:30:09.480 I do suffer
00:30:10.140 from the regrettable
00:30:11.460 fact of being Canadian.
00:30:13.280 And so
00:30:13.680 this is an NSERC grant.
00:30:16.460 NSERC is the equivalent
00:30:17.420 of let's say
00:30:17.940 an NSF grant
00:30:18.960 in the United States,
00:30:20.140 a National Science
00:30:20.780 Foundation grant.
00:30:21.820 It's at the
00:30:22.220 University of Waterloo
00:30:23.300 which is akin
00:30:24.780 to say MIT
00:30:25.780 or Caltech.
00:30:26.720 It's a historically
00:30:27.460 top engineering
00:30:29.120 and computer science school.
00:30:30.400 So for those of you
00:30:30.980 who are old enough
00:30:31.620 to remember
00:30:32.160 Fortran,
00:30:33.280 the Fortran language,
00:30:35.640 the compiler
00:30:36.800 was developed
00:30:37.660 at University of Waterloo.
00:30:40.360 So they recently
00:30:41.340 had Canada Research
00:30:43.020 Chair professorships.
00:30:44.180 Canada Research
00:30:44.700 Chairs are the
00:30:45.400 most prestigious
00:30:46.420 professorships
00:30:47.660 because they are endowed
00:30:48.800 by the Canadian government.
00:30:50.480 So this is the
00:30:51.180 top possible
00:30:52.160 professorship
00:30:52.680 that you can have.
00:30:54.620 And here are
00:30:56.260 the positions
00:30:56.780 that they had opened.
00:30:58.460 And just for you,
00:30:59.360 because oftentimes
00:30:59.980 people think,
00:31:00.600 oh, I'm being satirical.
00:31:02.440 I'm using my
00:31:03.120 hyperbolic humor
00:31:04.060 and so on.
00:31:04.860 So this is the
00:31:05.660 actual screenshot.
00:31:07.000 So let me read it
00:31:07.600 for you.
00:31:08.360 So the first one
00:31:09.360 is all areas
00:31:11.160 of artificial intelligence
00:31:12.420 will be looked at,
00:31:15.060 but the call
00:31:15.740 is only open
00:31:16.640 to qualified individuals
00:31:17.760 who self-identify
00:31:18.740 as women,
00:31:19.760 transgender,
00:31:20.900 gender fluid,
00:31:22.040 non-binary,
00:31:22.900 or two-spirit.
00:31:25.000 So imagine
00:31:26.120 you all now
00:31:27.480 have a sense
00:31:28.140 of what AI
00:31:28.820 is to the world.
00:31:30.660 while Canada
00:31:32.080 is saying
00:31:33.060 for you
00:31:34.140 to get
00:31:34.620 the highest
00:31:35.700 professorship
00:31:36.560 at a Canadian
00:31:37.360 university
00:31:38.080 in AI,
00:31:39.400 I need to see
00:31:40.180 that you are
00:31:40.800 two-spirit
00:31:41.680 or gender fluid.
00:31:43.520 This was recently.
00:31:44.820 This is not,
00:31:45.900 it's not as though
00:31:47.060 Donald Trump
00:31:47.700 ascended to the throne,
00:31:49.220 so to speak,
00:31:49.860 and all of this
00:31:50.860 woke stuff
00:31:51.380 has gone away.
00:31:52.800 And so Chris
00:31:53.280 was exactly right.
00:31:54.220 If you want to see
00:31:54.940 what's coming
00:31:55.520 to the United States,
00:31:56.720 just look a bit north
00:31:58.020 and you'll know
00:31:59.140 what's coming.
00:32:01.120 This is at my own
00:32:02.340 university.
00:32:04.700 You know,
00:32:05.000 every few years
00:32:05.840 you've got a strategic
00:32:06.780 plan that comes out
00:32:08.340 of, you know,
00:32:08.980 what the university
00:32:09.660 should do over the next
00:32:10.520 five years,
00:32:11.360 strategic mission.
00:32:13.000 Well, the number one
00:32:14.200 item at our university
00:32:15.840 is to decolonize
00:32:18.060 and indigenize
00:32:19.220 the entire curriculum.
00:32:21.640 So if you're teaching
00:32:22.740 neuroscience
00:32:23.280 or you're teaching
00:32:24.440 mechanical engineering
00:32:25.520 or you're a number theorist,
00:32:27.320 you're studying
00:32:27.920 the distribution
00:32:28.540 of prime numbers
00:32:29.440 or you're
00:32:30.160 an evolutionary psychologist,
00:32:31.680 you study psychology
00:32:32.460 of decision making,
00:32:33.760 you study human mating
00:32:34.780 preferences,
00:32:35.660 all of these fields now,
00:32:37.940 both in your research
00:32:39.340 and in your pedagogy,
00:32:41.440 should have an incorporation
00:32:43.100 of indigenization.
00:32:45.780 Well, I studied mathematics.
00:32:48.040 One of my degrees
00:32:49.360 is in mathematics
00:32:50.140 and computer science.
00:32:51.340 I wasn't aware
00:32:52.540 that the distribution
00:32:53.580 of prime numbers
00:32:54.620 would depend
00:32:55.680 on whether I'm
00:32:56.400 indigenous or two-spirit
00:32:57.980 or genderqueer.
00:32:59.360 But apparently,
00:33:00.380 even number theory
00:33:01.680 could be elevated
00:33:03.360 by incorporating this stuff.
00:33:04.980 This is happening
00:33:05.740 at leading universities
00:33:08.280 in Canada.
00:33:11.480 This, I won't go,
00:33:12.420 usually I have a whole
00:33:13.140 set up for this,
00:33:13.800 but maybe some of you
00:33:14.500 have already heard the story,
00:33:15.300 so I'll do it very quickly.
00:33:17.460 This is based on a conversation
00:33:19.220 I had in 2002,
00:33:20.940 so this is already
00:33:21.580 23 years ago
00:33:22.540 with a graduate student
00:33:24.500 who was studying
00:33:25.820 postmodernism,
00:33:27.000 and we couldn't agree
00:33:28.640 on the fact
00:33:29.560 that within Homo sapiens
00:33:31.360 only women bear children
00:33:34.240 because she argued
00:33:35.480 that there's a Japanese tribe
00:33:36.880 off a Japanese island
00:33:38.280 whereby it is the men
00:33:39.940 who bear children
00:33:40.980 in the folkloric
00:33:42.180 mythological realm.
00:33:44.160 And then if you're wondering
00:33:45.100 why there is a dancing hyena
00:33:46.660 in the other picture,
00:33:47.620 I asked her whether
00:33:49.700 she agreed or disagreed
00:33:51.660 with the fact
00:33:52.160 that mariners
00:33:55.680 since time immemorial
00:33:57.040 have relied on the premise
00:33:58.060 that the sun rises
00:33:59.420 in the east
00:33:59.940 and sets in the west,
00:34:01.180 and there she used
00:34:02.000 a variant of postmodernism
00:34:04.560 called deconstructionism.
00:34:06.100 This is Jacques Derrida.
00:34:07.680 Language creates reality.
00:34:09.480 She said,
00:34:09.740 what do you mean
00:34:10.220 by east and west,
00:34:11.180 and what do you mean
00:34:11.820 by the sun?
00:34:12.820 That which you call the sun
00:34:14.140 I may call dancing hyena.
00:34:16.240 I said,
00:34:16.640 well, the dancing hyena
00:34:17.560 rises in the east
00:34:18.480 and sets in the west.
00:34:19.560 And she said,
00:34:20.180 I don't play those label games.
00:34:22.120 Now, why do I always tell that story?
00:34:25.480 Well, for two reasons.
00:34:26.400 Number one,
00:34:27.320 because this was
00:34:28.060 a graduate student
00:34:29.080 at one of the leading universities,
00:34:31.040 not only in Canada
00:34:31.840 and the world,
00:34:33.340 but number two,
00:34:35.060 it happened in 2002.
00:34:37.760 So for those of you
00:34:38.680 who recently woke up
00:34:40.120 from your stupor and slumber
00:34:41.560 and said,
00:34:42.220 hey, gee,
00:34:43.000 I wasn't aware
00:34:43.980 that there are six foot four
00:34:45.280 women with nine inch penises
00:34:46.980 that are taking showers
00:34:47.900 with my 12-year-old daughter,
00:34:49.400 you woke up to it now,
00:34:51.020 but some of us
00:34:51.780 have been warning you
00:34:52.440 about this
00:34:52.940 for almost 30 years.
00:34:54.700 So wake up.
00:34:57.060 This is social constructivism
00:34:58.820 and biophobia,
00:35:00.860 which are two other
00:35:02.340 very destructive
00:35:04.120 idea pathogens.
00:35:07.380 Social constructivism
00:35:08.340 is the idea
00:35:08.900 that everything
00:35:10.220 is due to
00:35:10.840 a social construction.
00:35:11.900 There are no
00:35:12.400 biological imperatives.
00:35:13.760 There are no
00:35:14.140 biological universals.
00:35:15.300 You are born tabula rasa
00:35:17.140 and it is only
00:35:18.680 a sequence of socialization
00:35:20.500 that makes you
00:35:21.340 who you are.
00:35:22.700 Now, on the one hand,
00:35:23.780 it's a very hopeful message,
00:35:25.780 although perfectly rooted
00:35:26.820 in bullshit,
00:35:27.780 because it basically says
00:35:30.660 that, hey,
00:35:32.020 if you have a child,
00:35:33.400 he too can be the next
00:35:34.760 Michael Jordan,
00:35:36.260 Einstein,
00:35:37.040 or Lionel Messi.
00:35:38.080 If only you could find
00:35:39.420 the exact schedule
00:35:40.580 of reinforcements
00:35:41.600 and punishments,
00:35:42.860 hence socialization,
00:35:43.300 he too can be Lionel Messi.
00:35:45.820 But the reality is
00:35:46.760 it didn't matter
00:35:48.180 how much my parents
00:35:49.260 hugged me
00:35:49.620 or didn't hug me,
00:35:50.260 I was never going
00:35:50.920 to be as good
00:35:51.700 as Michael Jordan
00:35:53.320 as a basketball player
00:35:54.640 because I don't have
00:35:56.640 the height
00:35:57.420 to be as good
00:35:58.560 as Michael Jordan.
00:35:59.760 Right?
00:36:00.180 And so,
00:36:00.940 but that is viewed
00:36:02.080 as a deeply
00:36:03.100 constraining idea
00:36:04.760 that there might be
00:36:06.180 individual differences
00:36:08.180 in biological potentialities
00:36:10.220 across people.
00:36:10.960 It's a lot kinder
00:36:12.600 and empathetic
00:36:13.440 to argue
00:36:14.240 that we are all
00:36:15.300 due to strictly
00:36:16.940 social construction.
00:36:18.320 Biophobia is simply
00:36:19.220 the idea
00:36:19.700 that using biology
00:36:20.880 to explain human affairs
00:36:22.020 is very nefarious.
00:36:23.560 It's akin to Nazism.
00:36:25.200 And so you can see
00:36:26.040 how if you take
00:36:27.120 this whole cocktail
00:36:28.040 of idea pathogens,
00:36:29.900 you end up
00:36:30.360 with all of the things
00:36:31.420 that are now
00:36:32.020 part of your daily realities.
00:36:35.380 Here,
00:36:35.960 I just want to take
00:36:36.460 a few minutes.
00:36:37.160 It's going to be
00:36:37.740 slightly technical,
00:36:38.640 but I think
00:36:39.080 it's well worth it.
00:36:40.700 In chapter 7
00:36:41.660 of The Parasitic Mind
00:36:42.700 where I explain
00:36:44.120 how to seek truth,
00:36:45.740 I argue that
00:36:46.640 there is a mind vaccine
00:36:48.580 for being inoculated
00:36:50.140 against nonsense.
00:36:51.560 And I call this
00:36:52.320 nomological networks
00:36:53.720 of cumulative evidence.
00:36:55.120 Now,
00:36:55.320 it's a mouthful,
00:36:56.640 so let me explain
00:36:57.420 what I mean by that.
00:36:58.360 In the middle
00:36:59.020 of this diagram,
00:37:00.300 you have a statement
00:37:01.520 that I'm trying
00:37:02.280 to prove to you.
00:37:03.500 I want to prove to you
00:37:04.620 that biological forces
00:37:06.940 shape toy preferences.
00:37:09.700 And the reason
00:37:10.200 why I've chosen
00:37:10.820 this example
00:37:11.920 is because usually
00:37:12.780 social scientists argue
00:37:14.220 that the reason
00:37:15.140 why little Johnny
00:37:15.960 prefers to play
00:37:16.720 with a truck
00:37:17.280 and little Linda
00:37:18.060 prefers to play
00:37:18.780 with a doll
00:37:19.320 is because of
00:37:20.720 the evil patriarchal parents
00:37:22.820 that simply impose
00:37:23.960 these arbitrary
00:37:25.620 gender norms.
00:37:27.480 And so if I'm able
00:37:28.400 to demonstrate
00:37:28.960 to you otherwise,
00:37:30.300 then hopefully
00:37:31.020 I can move you away
00:37:32.440 from being stricken
00:37:36.400 by social constructivism
00:37:37.980 idea pathogen.
00:37:39.560 So how would I go
00:37:40.400 about doing that?
00:37:41.840 So let me show you
00:37:42.580 how I would do it.
00:37:43.420 I would get you data
00:37:44.360 across cultures,
00:37:45.800 across time periods,
00:37:47.120 across methodologies,
00:37:48.740 across species,
00:37:50.120 all of which prove my point.
00:37:52.480 So let me give you
00:37:53.060 some examples.
00:37:53.760 I won't do the whole thing,
00:37:55.040 but I'll do a few.
00:37:56.300 Well, developmental psychologists
00:37:57.700 have shown
00:37:58.380 that children already exhibit
00:38:00.440 those sex-specific
00:38:01.540 toy preferences
00:38:02.360 when they are too young
00:38:04.180 to be socialized.
00:38:05.200 In other words,
00:38:05.580 by definition,
00:38:06.720 you're ruling out
00:38:07.760 the social constructivist
00:38:08.920 argument, right?
00:38:10.140 So three months old
00:38:11.020 children are already
00:38:12.420 going towards
00:38:13.920 the sex-specific toys
00:38:15.280 at an age when
00:38:16.340 they couldn't
00:38:17.000 have been socialized.
00:38:18.220 Okay, so that's already
00:38:19.080 one nail
00:38:20.260 against the social constructivist.
00:38:22.960 I can get you data
00:38:24.020 from other animals,
00:38:25.960 vervet monkeys,
00:38:26.880 rhesus monkeys,
00:38:27.860 chimpanzees,
00:38:28.820 showing you that
00:38:29.640 their infants
00:38:30.600 exhibit the same
00:38:31.980 sex-specific
00:38:32.740 toy preferences
00:38:33.480 that human infants do.
00:38:35.820 I can get you data
00:38:36.920 from pediatric endocrinology
00:38:38.800 where little girls
00:38:40.280 who suffer from
00:38:40.980 congenital adrenal hyperplasia,
00:38:43.120 this is an endocrinological
00:38:44.500 disorder that
00:38:45.320 masculinizes
00:38:46.420 the behavior
00:38:47.560 of little girls.
00:38:49.440 Well, little girls
00:38:50.100 who suffer from
00:38:50.760 this disorder,
00:38:51.500 what do you think
00:38:51.900 happens to their
00:38:52.460 toy preferences?
00:38:53.540 They're perfectly reversed
00:38:54.740 and they become
00:38:55.680 akin to those
00:38:56.440 of little boys.
00:38:57.440 I can get you data
00:38:58.900 from sub-Saharan
00:39:00.920 nomadic cultures
00:39:02.000 where they exhibit
00:39:02.900 the exact same
00:39:03.820 toy preferences,
00:39:04.760 suggesting that it
00:39:05.520 can't be only
00:39:06.300 a Western construct.
00:39:08.140 Oh, but Professor Saad,
00:39:09.180 but those are all
00:39:09.800 contemporary examples.
00:39:10.980 No problem.
00:39:11.800 I can get you data
00:39:12.760 from 2,500 years ago
00:39:14.660 where an analysis
00:39:15.960 of funerary monuments
00:39:17.480 in ancient Greece
00:39:18.400 and ancient Rome
00:39:19.340 shows little boys
00:39:20.700 playing with the exact
00:39:22.020 same-sex-specific
00:39:23.000 toys that we have today.
00:39:24.120 So, what you see is
00:39:25.900 I've brought you
00:39:27.100 distinct lines of evidence
00:39:28.640 stemming from many,
00:39:30.060 many different areas,
00:39:31.300 all of which triangulate
00:39:33.220 to demonstrate
00:39:33.840 that my position
00:39:34.640 is the vertical one.
00:39:35.860 So, one of the reasons
00:39:36.640 why it's very hard
00:39:37.540 to cancel me
00:39:39.500 is because whenever
00:39:40.580 I appear anywhere,
00:39:42.140 I've already built
00:39:43.120 my requisite
00:39:44.180 nomological network,
00:39:45.460 so good luck to you
00:39:46.520 if you wish to debate me.
00:39:47.980 And that also allows me
00:39:49.840 to have epistemological
00:39:51.020 humility,
00:39:52.180 meaning that if you
00:39:53.120 ask me a question
00:39:54.460 that I don't feel
00:39:55.480 sufficiently knowledgeable about,
00:39:57.240 I'm very disciplined
00:39:58.360 to say that's a great question.
00:39:59.700 Unfortunately,
00:40:00.080 I don't know the answer
00:40:00.800 to that.
00:40:01.400 So, you could never
00:40:02.200 catch me, so to speak,
00:40:03.680 with my pants down
00:40:04.640 because I know what I know
00:40:06.180 and I know what I don't know.
00:40:07.340 So, for those of you
00:40:08.120 who are going
00:40:09.040 to hostile territory
00:40:10.260 to present ideas,
00:40:12.020 build your
00:40:12.660 nomological network
00:40:13.780 and that makes you
00:40:14.800 a formidable interlocutor.
00:40:17.200 Let's keep going.
00:40:19.560 This is from chapter 6
00:40:21.120 in the parasitic mind.
00:40:24.280 Ostrich parasitic syndrome.
00:40:25.400 Now, the ostrich
00:40:26.060 doesn't literally
00:40:27.460 bury its head
00:40:28.880 in the sand,
00:40:29.620 but it's become
00:40:30.540 an apt metaphor
00:40:31.440 for anyone
00:40:32.280 who wishes
00:40:32.760 to deny reality.
00:40:34.520 And regrettably,
00:40:36.140 ostrich parasitic syndrome
00:40:37.260 is a malady
00:40:38.780 that has deeply infected
00:40:40.900 certainly Western politicians.
00:40:43.900 Let me give you
00:40:44.420 one example of that.
00:40:46.400 Now, this number here
00:40:47.640 is actually,
00:40:48.520 it keeps changing
00:40:49.300 every day.
00:40:49.800 It's much higher now.
00:40:50.860 This was,
00:40:51.820 I think the last time
00:40:52.680 I did this
00:40:53.060 was maybe a month ago.
00:40:54.520 So, since 9-11 alone,
00:40:56.980 there have been
00:40:57.720 40,
00:40:58.960 this is so,
00:40:59.480 this is as of
00:41:00.060 about a month ago.
00:41:01.280 There have been
00:41:01.800 almost 48,000
00:41:04.440 Islamic terror attacks
00:41:06.800 in nearly 70 countries
00:41:09.640 where the terrorists
00:41:11.620 have expressly stated
00:41:13.680 that the reason
00:41:14.900 why they're doing
00:41:15.740 what they're doing
00:41:16.480 is because of
00:41:17.500 a specific tenant,
00:41:19.400 tenet or tenets
00:41:20.540 from within their faith.
00:41:22.900 Okay?
00:41:23.520 And in many cases,
00:41:24.760 they will do
00:41:25.800 a public video
00:41:27.340 invoking the specific passages
00:41:30.140 that justify them
00:41:31.620 doing what they're doing.
00:41:32.760 But in the West,
00:41:33.920 we're much more sophisticated
00:41:35.320 than that.
00:41:36.000 We don't believe
00:41:36.720 what the terrorists tell us.
00:41:38.160 So, we come up
00:41:38.940 with alternate,
00:41:40.380 ostrich-based explanations
00:41:41.940 for why these terror attacks
00:41:44.120 have happened.
00:41:44.920 Let me just mention
00:41:46.280 a few of these.
00:41:48.120 It turns out,
00:41:49.500 as a Jewish
00:41:51.820 Belgian politician
00:41:54.280 explained to us
00:41:55.160 when there was
00:41:55.640 a terror attack
00:41:56.480 in Belgium,
00:41:57.980 he said that
00:41:58.960 probably the main reason
00:42:01.400 why Mohammed,
00:42:03.280 Mahmoud,
00:42:04.460 and Ahmed
00:42:05.240 committed their crime
00:42:06.980 in Belgium
00:42:08.600 is because of
00:42:09.820 lack of art exposure.
00:42:12.920 Because
00:42:13.440 this is one of the reasons
00:42:15.080 why I always explain
00:42:16.140 to my children
00:42:17.320 that I always want
00:42:18.600 to expose them to art
00:42:19.800 because if they don't do that,
00:42:22.020 they're easy targets
00:42:23.180 for ISIS recruitment.
00:42:26.940 I'm not finished.
00:42:28.320 Bill Nye,
00:42:29.080 who is very smart
00:42:30.060 because he's referred to
00:42:31.040 as the science guy,
00:42:32.640 plus he wears a bow tie
00:42:33.760 so he must be smart,
00:42:35.780 explained to us
00:42:36.800 after the Bataclan attack
00:42:38.460 in Paris
00:42:39.200 where I think
00:42:40.240 almost 180 people
00:42:41.840 were mowed down
00:42:43.100 like insignificant mosquitoes
00:42:44.880 at a concert
00:42:46.660 while screaming
00:42:47.900 Allahu Akbar,
00:42:49.640 right,
00:42:49.880 which doesn't mean,
00:42:50.820 by the way,
00:42:51.320 God is great.
00:42:52.340 It means
00:42:52.860 our God
00:42:53.880 is greater.
00:42:55.480 It's a supremacist statement.
00:42:57.800 It's not
00:42:58.280 Kumbaya coexist.
00:43:00.360 It's Allah
00:43:01.280 is bigger than
00:43:02.080 all of your gods.
00:43:04.160 Yes?
00:43:05.200 Well,
00:43:05.900 Bill Nye
00:43:06.360 explained to us
00:43:07.180 on a Huffington Post
00:43:08.340 interview
00:43:08.840 that it was
00:43:10.160 very,
00:43:10.820 very likely
00:43:11.380 that what caused
00:43:12.360 those guys
00:43:13.000 to do what they did
00:43:14.000 is due to
00:43:15.060 climate change,
00:43:18.300 of course.
00:43:20.500 Right?
00:43:21.320 So a lot of you
00:43:22.420 kind of
00:43:23.220 simpleton imbeciles
00:43:24.640 thought that
00:43:25.780 when they
00:43:26.660 invoked
00:43:27.520 this specific
00:43:28.280 Quranic verse
00:43:29.540 to do what they did,
00:43:31.480 that's why they did it.
00:43:32.560 the reality is
00:43:33.640 lack of solar panels
00:43:35.080 in Syria.
00:43:35.960 That's what caused it.
00:43:37.560 So how could you
00:43:38.920 win a war
00:43:40.020 where people
00:43:41.120 are disparecetized?
00:43:43.280 And I see this
00:43:44.100 every single day
00:43:45.760 in my faculty
00:43:47.120 lounges.
00:43:48.700 A bunch of
00:43:49.660 complete morons
00:43:50.700 with a bunch of
00:43:51.660 degrees after their names.
00:43:55.580 Here's another one
00:43:56.740 that you're going
00:43:57.800 to enjoy.
00:43:58.980 For those of you
00:43:59.740 who don't know,
00:44:00.340 this is covered
00:44:01.360 extensively.
00:44:01.880 I have a whole chapter
00:44:02.820 on this in
00:44:03.460 my forthcoming book
00:44:04.760 Suicidal Empathy.
00:44:06.820 Grooming rape gangs
00:44:07.860 have been happening
00:44:08.900 in the United Kingdom
00:44:10.920 for about 25 years.
00:44:13.740 Up and down
00:44:14.840 England.
00:44:16.340 In every town
00:44:17.280 you could think of.
00:44:19.120 In the extraordinary
00:44:20.600 majority of cases,
00:44:23.320 it's Asian men
00:44:24.840 doing it.
00:44:25.840 But Asian men
00:44:26.640 is weird
00:44:26.980 because Japanese men
00:44:28.180 are Asian,
00:44:29.260 Lebanese men
00:44:30.060 are Asian,
00:44:30.660 but that's not
00:44:31.640 what we really mean.
00:44:32.680 We really mean
00:44:33.480 Pakistani Muslim men,
00:44:35.300 but that would be
00:44:36.380 marginalizing
00:44:37.320 and Islamophobic
00:44:38.300 to say that
00:44:38.900 they do it
00:44:39.680 because of that.
00:44:40.720 So therefore,
00:44:41.380 we use euphemisms
00:44:42.940 such as Asian men.
00:44:44.540 In France,
00:44:45.580 we call them
00:44:46.440 les jeunes,
00:44:47.380 the youths.
00:44:48.500 So when they go around
00:44:49.840 causing havoc
00:44:50.820 in all of the suburbs
00:44:52.120 of Paris,
00:44:52.960 we don't say
00:44:54.100 it's Ahmed and Muhammad,
00:44:55.480 we just call them
00:44:56.220 the youths.
00:44:56.640 youths
00:44:57.260 because it's a lot
00:44:58.320 more kind
00:44:59.040 and empathetic.
00:44:59.960 Now,
00:45:00.680 I took one
00:45:02.100 of these cases.
00:45:03.380 It's called
00:45:03.780 the Huddersfield Gang.
00:45:05.460 This is the Huddersfield Gang
00:45:07.260 for the town
00:45:08.240 of Huddersfield,
00:45:09.200 which is a small town.
00:45:11.300 And they caught
00:45:12.300 20 guys.
00:45:13.520 Sorry,
00:45:13.800 I'm just going to,
00:45:14.460 I can't read it here.
00:45:15.680 Muhammad Kamir,
00:45:19.080 Muhammad Rizwan Aslam,
00:45:21.840 Nahman Muhammad,
00:45:23.820 Nasrat Hussain,
00:45:25.200 Muhammad Ifraz.
00:45:26.680 And so I put
00:45:27.480 all of these
00:45:28.180 Muhammad names up
00:45:29.200 and I said,
00:45:29.820 I'm not smart enough.
00:45:30.960 I don't have
00:45:31.380 the big data
00:45:32.180 analytic brain
00:45:33.180 to be able
00:45:34.140 to see
00:45:34.660 what is
00:45:35.080 a universal theme
00:45:36.340 tying all
00:45:37.460 these perpetrators
00:45:38.320 together.
00:45:39.300 Could anybody
00:45:40.260 help me out?
00:45:41.860 Well,
00:45:42.120 a lot of people
00:45:42.900 wrote back to me
00:45:43.780 and guess
00:45:44.560 what they came up with
00:45:46.000 as the real culprit
00:45:47.400 of the Huddersfield
00:45:48.600 gang rapes.
00:45:49.640 Who was it?
00:45:51.020 The Jews.
00:45:53.360 They weren't
00:45:54.320 being facetious.
00:45:56.000 They weren't
00:45:57.060 being jocular.
00:45:58.760 Why was it
00:45:59.460 the Jews?
00:46:00.900 And so I came up
00:46:01.800 with the mathematical
00:46:02.420 equations.
00:46:03.280 Three Mohammeds
00:46:04.280 equal Mordechai.
00:46:05.960 When three Mohammeds
00:46:07.340 gang rape your daughter,
00:46:08.540 the real rapist
00:46:09.680 is Mordechai.
00:46:10.680 How?
00:46:11.160 Can somebody
00:46:11.580 tell me the logic?
00:46:14.560 Anybody?
00:46:15.820 Sorry?
00:46:17.060 Exactly.
00:46:18.300 Because it turns out
00:46:19.620 that the immigration
00:46:20.960 policy of every
00:46:23.200 Western country,
00:46:24.320 including Denmark,
00:46:25.900 including Sweden,
00:46:27.340 Spain,
00:46:28.420 France,
00:46:29.580 every country,
00:46:30.780 Britain,
00:46:31.820 yes,
00:46:32.300 you might think
00:46:33.020 that the immigration
00:46:34.400 ministers in those
00:46:36.320 countries
00:46:36.780 are not Jewish,
00:46:38.700 but behind them
00:46:40.380 there's a cabal
00:46:41.720 of NGOs
00:46:43.160 controlled by Jews
00:46:45.100 that let them in.
00:46:46.540 So what's the point
00:46:47.460 about being angry
00:46:48.500 against the Mohammeds
00:46:49.700 when the real culprits
00:46:50.840 is literally me,
00:46:52.500 the head of the Jews?
00:46:54.500 So how can you
00:46:55.560 fight a battle
00:46:56.580 when you can't
00:46:57.840 even identify
00:46:58.660 who the real enemy is?
00:47:00.040 So if your physician
00:47:01.640 tells you
00:47:02.280 you have stage 4
00:47:03.400 pancreatic cancer
00:47:04.440 and you say,
00:47:05.300 yes,
00:47:05.520 but the real problem
00:47:06.460 is dandruff,
00:47:07.960 well,
00:47:08.540 then you're probably
00:47:09.180 going to die soon
00:47:10.040 and that's what's
00:47:10.980 happening in the West.
00:47:12.760 In a complete inability
00:47:14.340 to see things
00:47:15.660 that an average
00:47:16.780 lobotomized
00:47:17.600 three-day-old pigeon
00:47:18.740 sees,
00:47:19.560 but we can't see it
00:47:20.860 because we're kind
00:47:21.940 and empathetic.
00:47:25.640 So let me talk briefly,
00:47:28.480 I'll try to wrap it up soon.
00:47:31.080 In my fourth,
00:47:31.680 so the parasitic mind
00:47:33.760 talks about
00:47:34.520 what happens
00:47:35.300 to our cognitive
00:47:36.260 system
00:47:36.820 when it is parasitized,
00:47:38.500 meaning our thoughts.
00:47:40.220 But human beings
00:47:41.140 are both a thinking
00:47:42.080 and feeling animal,
00:47:43.340 yes?
00:47:44.240 And therefore,
00:47:45.260 suicidal empathy
00:47:46.200 completes the story
00:47:47.560 by explaining
00:47:49.020 what happens
00:47:49.860 when our emotional
00:47:51.120 system
00:47:51.760 is parasitized.
00:47:53.280 And why do I focus
00:47:54.420 specifically on empathy?
00:47:56.200 Because empathy
00:47:57.060 turns out to be
00:47:57.900 a very important
00:47:58.920 human virtue,
00:48:00.560 right?
00:48:00.740 So it's not an attack
00:48:01.740 on empathy.
00:48:03.080 As a matter of fact,
00:48:03.980 for a social species,
00:48:06.600 we need to be empathetic.
00:48:08.320 So for example,
00:48:08.860 theory of mind
00:48:09.940 is the idea
00:48:11.920 that for me
00:48:12.460 to have
00:48:12.960 a relevant
00:48:14.980 conversation
00:48:15.560 with Ari,
00:48:16.320 I need to be able
00:48:17.400 to put myself
00:48:18.300 in his mind.
00:48:19.260 One of the ways
00:48:19.960 that you identify
00:48:20.780 that someone
00:48:21.680 is autistic
00:48:22.340 when they're
00:48:22.920 a young child
00:48:23.580 is you give them
00:48:24.540 what's called
00:48:24.960 a theory of mind test
00:48:26.180 and they fail it.
00:48:27.140 So theory of mind
00:48:29.240 and empathy
00:48:30.040 are very important
00:48:31.180 mechanisms,
00:48:32.400 but as Aristotle
00:48:33.860 explained to us
00:48:34.900 many thousands
00:48:35.940 of years ago,
00:48:37.040 all good things
00:48:37.960 in good measure
00:48:38.780 at the right time,
00:48:39.740 at the right place,
00:48:40.500 and to the right targets,
00:48:41.880 right?
00:48:42.420 So orgiastic empathy
00:48:44.580 that is completely
00:48:45.900 dysregulated
00:48:46.920 leads to major problems.
00:48:49.080 If you care more
00:48:50.080 about MS-13 gang members
00:48:52.040 than you care
00:48:52.840 about American vets,
00:48:54.240 then you are suffering
00:48:55.320 from suicidal empathy.
00:48:56.440 If you think
00:48:57.580 that all immigrants,
00:48:59.020 irrespective of
00:48:59.940 where they come from,
00:49:01.060 are equally likely
00:49:02.160 to assimilate,
00:49:03.540 then you suffer
00:49:04.180 from suicidal empathy.
00:49:05.680 If you think
00:49:06.480 that it is unfair
00:49:07.640 to take huge
00:49:08.980 homeless encampments
00:49:10.200 where people
00:49:10.960 are shooting up
00:49:11.840 heroin in front
00:49:12.860 of your children
00:49:13.560 would be mean,
00:49:14.980 that's suicidal empathy,
00:49:16.640 right?
00:49:16.840 And so what I demonstrate
00:49:17.820 in this book
00:49:18.660 is that every single
00:49:21.040 one of the things
00:49:22.260 that keeps everybody
00:49:23.200 in this room
00:49:23.940 up at night
00:49:25.680 stems from
00:49:26.880 dysregulated
00:49:28.020 suicidal empathy.
00:49:29.800 And so that's
00:49:30.320 the next book.
00:49:31.340 I hope that you'll
00:49:32.040 all get it.
00:49:33.160 So let me wrap up
00:49:34.160 with some sort of
00:49:36.180 calls to action.
00:49:37.060 So how do we save
00:49:37.880 our universities?
00:49:38.740 And the reason why
00:49:39.300 I focus here on universities
00:49:40.380 is because, again,
00:49:41.660 all of these dreadful ideas
00:49:43.480 originate from
00:49:44.380 the universities.
00:49:45.840 How do we save
00:49:46.580 our universities?
00:49:47.380 Well, we pursue
00:49:48.400 knowledge unencumbered
00:49:49.800 by ideological activism.
00:49:51.920 No knowledge is forbidden
00:49:53.220 if gathered objectively,
00:49:54.700 right?
00:49:55.000 So one of the things,
00:49:55.940 for example,
00:49:56.300 if you want to have
00:49:56.960 an end to your career
00:49:57.800 in academia,
00:49:58.800 study sex differences
00:50:00.020 or race differences.
00:50:01.500 Because if the results
00:50:02.780 don't come out
00:50:03.620 according to the
00:50:04.420 progressive calculus,
00:50:05.640 then you're dead.
00:50:06.760 If the results show
00:50:07.920 that women are superior
00:50:09.160 on a task,
00:50:11.200 then publish the results.
00:50:12.680 God forbid,
00:50:13.580 if the results show
00:50:14.500 that men might be better
00:50:15.780 at any task,
00:50:17.320 you better make
00:50:18.120 that those data disappear
00:50:19.520 because then you are
00:50:20.960 promulgating tired,
00:50:22.740 sexist, patriarchal stereotypes.
00:50:25.360 No, there is no
00:50:26.400 forbidden knowledge
00:50:27.240 in science
00:50:27.860 if pursued objectively.
00:50:29.720 Number two,
00:50:30.820 freedom of speech,
00:50:31.900 freedom of inquiry
00:50:32.600 and the pursuit of truth
00:50:33.580 are deontological principles.
00:50:35.380 For those of you
00:50:35.860 who don't know
00:50:36.260 what that term means,
00:50:37.400 deontological means absolute.
00:50:40.340 So for example,
00:50:40.880 if you say
00:50:41.320 it is never okay to lie,
00:50:43.300 that would be
00:50:43.860 a deontological principle.
00:50:45.580 If you say
00:50:46.120 it is okay to lie
00:50:47.380 to spare someone's feelings,
00:50:48.900 that would be
00:50:49.480 a consequentialist statement.
00:50:51.300 For many, many things,
00:50:52.540 it makes perfect sense
00:50:53.460 for us to be
00:50:54.040 consequentialist
00:50:55.080 in our ethics.
00:50:56.380 But when it comes
00:50:57.020 to freedom of speech,
00:50:58.320 freedom of inquiry,
00:50:59.740 presumption of innocence,
00:51:01.220 and all of these
00:51:02.000 foundational values,
00:51:03.320 they have to be
00:51:04.160 deontological.
00:51:05.000 If you violate that,
00:51:06.200 you no longer have
00:51:07.320 the Western tradition.
00:51:09.260 No more identity politics
00:51:11.400 and victimology poker
00:51:12.740 and all that bullshit.
00:51:14.080 No more coddling
00:51:14.960 of the culture of offense
00:51:16.320 and the ethos
00:51:17.040 of perpetual victimhood.
00:51:19.520 My family left execution.
00:51:22.280 Myself included,
00:51:23.100 left Lebanon
00:51:24.540 under imminent threat
00:51:25.620 of execution.
00:51:26.840 My parents were kidnapped
00:51:27.880 and tortured by Fatah.
00:51:29.260 My wife's family
00:51:30.240 left Lebanon
00:51:31.280 because they too
00:51:33.460 faced the hardships
00:51:34.740 of what was happening
00:51:36.200 in Lebanon.
00:51:37.480 Her ancestors fled
00:51:39.580 the Armenian genocide.
00:51:41.060 My grandparents escaped
00:51:43.700 from Syria
00:51:44.740 because of the endemic
00:51:46.280 Jew hatred
00:51:47.080 60, 70 years ago.
00:51:49.740 My brother-in-law's family
00:51:51.080 escaped Egypt,
00:51:52.900 Alexandria,
00:51:53.720 because of the Jew hatred
00:51:54.740 in the 40s and 50s
00:51:55.960 in Egypt.
00:51:56.520 So we have faced
00:51:57.840 real victimology
00:51:59.560 of the worst kind
00:52:00.640 within our lifetimes,
00:52:02.120 yet we don't wallow
00:52:03.600 in it all day long.
00:52:05.080 We recognize that
00:52:05.880 it is part of our history,
00:52:07.900 an important part
00:52:08.820 of our history,
00:52:09.660 but what makes us
00:52:10.560 who we are
00:52:11.060 is that we overcome that.
00:52:12.980 What you're taught
00:52:13.780 in the West
00:52:14.400 is the exact opposite.
00:52:15.780 The only way
00:52:16.420 you ascend the hierarchy
00:52:17.440 is to be the biggest victim
00:52:19.160 and the biggest whiner,
00:52:20.140 and if you're not
00:52:20.720 a real victim,
00:52:21.780 then manufacture
00:52:22.660 a victimhood story
00:52:23.820 as per Jussie Smollett,
00:52:27.020 Jussie Smollett,
00:52:28.340 and therefore,
00:52:29.840 hopefully,
00:52:30.540 you can get the ego strokes
00:52:32.440 that you want.
00:52:34.180 A just society
00:52:35.040 is rooted in the ethos
00:52:36.240 of meritocracy.
00:52:37.340 Meritocracy,
00:52:38.140 we are not social ants.
00:52:39.440 The reason why
00:52:40.020 I use the ant analogy
00:52:41.760 is because
00:52:42.880 when E.O. Wilson,
00:52:44.040 the famous Harvard biologist,
00:52:45.640 was asked,
00:52:46.580 he's an entomologist,
00:52:47.800 he studied social ants,
00:52:49.360 when he was asked,
00:52:50.260 what are your views
00:52:50.980 on socialism
00:52:51.720 slash communism,
00:52:52.840 professor?
00:52:53.640 He said,
00:52:54.080 great idea,
00:52:55.060 wrong species.
00:52:57.160 Ants have evolved
00:52:58.540 to be communistic.
00:53:00.200 Humans have not.
00:53:01.260 That's why it has been tried
00:53:02.500 in a million different places,
00:53:03.700 and it always results
00:53:04.860 in the same outcome,
00:53:05.640 but yet here
00:53:06.760 in the United States,
00:53:08.200 you have a guy
00:53:09.040 who is a Islamist sympathizer
00:53:11.480 and a socialist
00:53:12.540 who's going to become
00:53:14.000 the mayor
00:53:15.340 of the center
00:53:17.520 of capitalism
00:53:18.620 and historically Jewish life
00:53:20.220 called New York City.
00:53:21.520 Good luck,
00:53:22.140 United States.
00:53:23.520 Promote an ethos
00:53:24.420 of intellectual
00:53:25.160 and political diversity.
00:53:26.860 All ideas
00:53:27.740 are open
00:53:29.280 to mockery,
00:53:30.520 derision.
00:53:31.560 Nothing is sacrosanct.
00:53:32.840 There are no sacred cows.
00:53:35.200 I'm going to skip these.
00:53:36.780 I'll skip these also.
00:53:38.700 How to save the West.
00:53:39.680 I only have a couple
00:53:40.320 of more slides,
00:53:40.800 so bear with me.
00:53:41.620 How to save the West.
00:53:43.300 In order for the West
00:53:44.360 to win the civilizational battle,
00:53:45.920 it must proudly
00:53:47.380 and unequivocally
00:53:48.260 defend Western values,
00:53:50.000 reject cultural relativism.
00:53:51.960 Cultural relativism
00:53:52.860 is basically the idea
00:53:53.740 of who are you
00:53:54.780 to judge
00:53:55.360 whether another culture
00:53:57.340 decides that we should
00:53:58.440 cut off the clitorises
00:53:59.460 of five-year-old girls.
00:54:00.560 Don't be a cultural imperialist.
00:54:02.640 No, I am a cultural imperialist.
00:54:04.440 You don't have the right
00:54:05.440 to cut off the clitorises
00:54:06.400 of five-year-old girls.
00:54:07.520 And certainly,
00:54:08.060 if you come into my country,
00:54:09.540 we don't condone that here.
00:54:11.160 Have that pride.
00:54:12.640 Defend your principles.
00:54:15.520 Number three,
00:54:17.560 recommit to individual dignity
00:54:19.600 over the celebration
00:54:20.440 of collective identity.
00:54:21.920 Recognize that all cultures
00:54:23.080 are not equal.
00:54:24.460 Recognize that religious beliefs
00:54:26.420 are not equally consistent
00:54:27.900 with Western values.
00:54:28.840 Recognize that all immigrants
00:54:30.200 are not equally likely
00:54:31.340 to assimilate
00:54:32.020 and adopt Western values.
00:54:33.940 And so on and so forth.
00:54:36.400 I'll skip this.
00:54:38.040 I'll end with this.
00:54:39.820 I won't read this whole passage
00:54:41.800 just so that we can have
00:54:43.000 a bit more time to chat.
00:54:44.420 But in chapter eight,
00:54:45.580 the last chapter
00:54:46.180 of the parasitic mind,
00:54:47.300 I implore people
00:54:48.420 to activate
00:54:49.080 their inner honey badger.
00:54:50.720 And the reason why
00:54:51.400 I use the honey badger
00:54:52.680 as the representation
00:54:54.800 of what I'm trying to say
00:54:56.360 is because it turns out
00:54:57.540 that the honey badger
00:54:58.380 has been ranked
00:55:00.600 as the fiercest
00:55:02.040 of all animals
00:55:03.540 by zoologists.
00:55:05.540 And why is that?
00:55:06.680 Well, because it's the size
00:55:07.640 of a small to medium-sized dog
00:55:09.580 and yet it is insanely ferocious.
00:55:13.640 You could have six adult lions
00:55:15.620 approach it
00:55:16.420 and when they see
00:55:17.460 Mr. Honey Badger,
00:55:18.360 they go,
00:55:18.820 sorry, sir,
00:55:19.480 didn't mean to interrupt
00:55:20.420 and they cross
00:55:21.040 to the other side of the road.
00:55:22.500 Why does he do that?
00:55:23.640 Well, because he may not be tall
00:55:25.120 but he's the tallest.
00:55:26.960 He's the fiercest.
00:55:28.340 He doesn't give an F
00:55:29.560 as the term goes, right?
00:55:31.340 Honey badgers
00:55:31.880 don't give an F.
00:55:32.960 Now, when I implore people
00:55:34.380 to activate
00:55:34.980 their inner honey badger,
00:55:36.220 I'm not saying be violent
00:55:38.040 but I'm saying
00:55:39.220 that stand tall
00:55:40.420 in defending principles.
00:55:42.260 Don't nod quietly
00:55:43.600 as your professor
00:55:44.600 espouses nonsense.
00:55:46.300 Now, I'm not saying
00:55:47.120 that you should be impolite
00:55:48.320 or cantankerous
00:55:49.640 or rude
00:55:50.260 but I'm saying
00:55:51.200 that any opportunity
00:55:52.500 that you have
00:55:53.260 to defend
00:55:53.900 our Western values,
00:55:55.620 you should take
00:55:56.140 that opportunity.
00:55:57.180 Thank you very much.
00:55:57.920 Thank you very much.
00:56:22.500 Hey, if any of you
00:56:27.120 have questions,
00:56:28.300 you can scan the QR code
00:56:30.420 either up here on the screen
00:56:31.400 or on that handout
00:56:33.340 on your tables
00:56:34.260 and you can go ahead
00:56:35.900 and enter a question
00:56:36.620 and it'll go to Ari's
00:56:37.880 handy little iPad
00:56:38.760 that he has in hand now
00:56:40.040 to ask Dr. Seth.
00:56:41.900 So, thanks.
00:56:42.760 I'm a PC kind of guy
00:56:46.660 so this is not working
00:56:47.560 out so well for me
00:56:48.420 but if you have questions
00:56:50.280 send them on over
00:56:50.900 and I'll figure out
00:56:51.400 how to use it.
00:56:52.260 That was absolutely brilliant
00:56:53.720 and I'm suddenly
00:56:54.980 very aware of the fact
00:56:55.900 that I'm a few credits
00:56:56.560 shy of graduating college.
00:56:59.040 So, I look at
00:57:00.780 what you talked about
00:57:01.960 about what's happening
00:57:03.100 on college campuses.
00:57:04.300 The first time you and I met
00:57:05.520 was a Turning Point USA
00:57:06.960 and you came walking
00:57:08.760 over to my booth
00:57:09.400 just like I have one
00:57:10.140 set up here
00:57:10.580 and you noticed
00:57:11.780 the yarmulke on my head
00:57:12.700 and you said
00:57:14.480 you can't wear that
00:57:15.400 on my college campus.
00:57:16.500 I said try wearing that
00:57:17.420 on my campus
00:57:18.440 and let me know
00:57:19.020 how it goes for you.
00:57:19.880 Exactly.
00:57:20.960 You talked about
00:57:21.800 and Chris said it
00:57:22.640 completely correct.
00:57:23.800 You talk like you're
00:57:24.420 10 years ahead of us
00:57:25.500 but at the same time
00:57:26.800 I'm seeing this kind of stuff
00:57:28.080 happening at the
00:57:28.780 University of Washington here
00:57:30.260 and now that I've gotten
00:57:32.220 public disclosure requests
00:57:33.400 of their emails
00:57:34.440 it's even worse
00:57:35.600 than we all knew.
00:57:37.120 So, you talk about
00:57:38.740 action items.
00:57:39.560 Can we fix
00:57:41.180 what's going on
00:57:42.000 at these colleges?
00:57:43.980 You can
00:57:44.820 but it's going to require
00:57:47.020 the stomach to do so.
00:57:48.720 Right?
00:57:49.120 It is impossible
00:57:50.320 to implement
00:57:51.360 many of the
00:57:52.160 auto-corrective measures
00:57:53.280 that need to be implemented
00:57:54.760 without breaking
00:57:56.220 any eggs.
00:57:57.340 Right?
00:57:57.520 So, for example
00:57:58.100 when you're now
00:57:59.080 trying to deport
00:57:59.920 millions of people
00:58:00.940 who are illegally here
00:58:02.580 and then somebody
00:58:03.840 finds an example
00:58:05.060 of someone
00:58:05.660 who is supposedly
00:58:07.040 father of the year
00:58:08.060 from Maryland
00:58:08.680 then people use
00:58:10.140 that exemplar
00:58:11.000 as look how evil
00:58:12.600 and heartless
00:58:13.540 these deportation
00:58:14.740 processes are.
00:58:15.680 You simply have to have
00:58:17.020 the strength
00:58:17.960 of your convictions
00:58:18.780 and go unencumbered
00:58:20.460 by any of that nonsense
00:58:21.540 be a honey badger
00:58:22.660 and do it.
00:58:23.080 And in a sense
00:58:23.620 you guys are very lucky
00:58:24.900 in that at least
00:58:25.840 for the next four years
00:58:26.840 you do have
00:58:28.100 a honey badger
00:58:29.220 in power.
00:58:30.400 He's called
00:58:30.820 Donald Trump.
00:58:31.400 In Canada
00:58:35.640 we've really evolved
00:58:38.220 into a new species.
00:58:39.940 I call them
00:58:40.580 I call both Canadians
00:58:42.180 and academics
00:58:43.160 the invertebrate
00:58:44.640 castrati.
00:58:45.960 They both have
00:58:47.100 no spines
00:58:47.900 or no testicles.
00:58:49.600 And so
00:58:49.880 all
00:58:50.480 Canadian politicians
00:58:53.000 are just
00:58:54.000 one endless
00:58:55.040 sequence
00:58:55.700 of complete
00:58:57.000 castrati.
00:58:58.560 So
00:58:59.720 as you mentioned
00:59:00.760 something like that
00:59:01.500 we're talking about
00:59:02.080 what Donald Trump
00:59:02.880 and the Trump
00:59:03.240 administration
00:59:03.700 Department of Education
00:59:04.740 work like
00:59:05.220 what Chris is doing
00:59:05.920 exposing this kind of stuff
00:59:07.240 and yet what we see
00:59:08.940 is they're
00:59:10.460 changing the names
00:59:11.540 of the DEI programs.
00:59:13.320 They're just changing
00:59:13.960 them to something new
00:59:15.260 and they said
00:59:16.120 oh well we're going
00:59:16.840 to appoint a new
00:59:17.660 DEI person
00:59:18.440 we'll call it
00:59:18.900 something else
00:59:19.360 and they're going
00:59:19.880 to fix all these
00:59:20.500 problems
00:59:20.760 so we don't lose
00:59:21.360 all this funding.
00:59:22.520 Are you worried
00:59:23.700 about a massive
00:59:24.900 swing back
00:59:25.920 if the Democrats
00:59:26.760 win
00:59:27.460 in 2026
00:59:29.140 2028?
00:59:30.040 Right.
00:59:30.280 That's a great question.
00:59:31.240 So this is why
00:59:32.120 I tell people
00:59:32.880 don't be complacent
00:59:34.260 because Donald Trump
00:59:35.960 won.
00:59:37.040 Yes he might be able
00:59:38.480 to reverse
00:59:39.440 a lot of the insanity
00:59:40.700 during the time
00:59:42.060 that he's in office
00:59:43.040 but it took
00:59:44.320 depending on the
00:59:45.140 parasitic idea
00:59:45.980 that I might be
00:59:46.840 talking about
00:59:47.620 in the book
00:59:48.080 it took between
00:59:49.380 50 to 80 years
00:59:51.100 for these parasitic
00:59:52.440 ideas to first
00:59:53.500 be spawned
00:59:55.060 on university campuses
00:59:55.980 and then proliferate
00:59:57.420 to every nook
00:59:57.980 and cranny
00:59:59.580 of society
01:00:00.140 so it'll take
01:00:01.640 a lot more
01:00:02.300 than just mean
01:00:03.500 Donald Trump
01:00:04.820 for everything
01:00:05.740 to be reversed
01:00:06.500 so the battle
01:00:07.300 hopefully it won't
01:00:08.780 be 50 to 80 years
01:00:10.020 but it's going
01:00:10.680 to be a much
01:00:11.480 longer cultural
01:00:12.760 battle
01:00:13.220 than just
01:00:13.900 the tenure
01:00:14.680 of Donald Trump.
01:00:16.000 So you look
01:00:16.980 at Canada
01:00:17.720 which is a more
01:00:18.600 extreme version
01:00:19.380 of what's happening
01:00:20.060 in the United States
01:00:21.160 do you think
01:00:22.140 Canada is beyond
01:00:23.140 saving?
01:00:24.000 Because I look
01:00:24.980 at that
01:00:25.340 and when people
01:00:26.060 joke
01:00:26.520 oh we want
01:00:27.360 to make them
01:00:27.700 the 51st state
01:00:28.560 I said
01:00:28.880 do you really
01:00:29.200 want to add
01:00:29.620 all those provinces
01:00:30.480 as blue states
01:00:31.420 that's probably
01:00:31.880 not the best idea
01:00:32.780 maybe we get
01:00:33.820 Alberta out of it.
01:00:34.680 You know it's funny
01:00:35.140 that you say this
01:00:35.600 because when
01:00:36.360 Donald Trump
01:00:37.060 won his second term
01:00:38.560 I put out a tweet
01:00:40.020 I don't remember
01:00:40.460 the exact words
01:00:41.140 so I'm paraphrasing
01:00:41.840 I said
01:00:42.700 dear
01:00:43.380 and I tagged him
01:00:44.540 dear Donald Trump
01:00:45.460 as a Canadian
01:00:47.200 I can assure you
01:00:48.360 that somewhere
01:00:49.320 between four to eight
01:00:50.740 soldiers from
01:00:51.800 the United States
01:00:52.580 should be able
01:00:53.300 to conquer Canada
01:00:54.160 in a week or two
01:00:54.940 so I mean
01:00:57.500 it is so
01:00:58.560 unbelievably clear
01:01:00.000 that I'm being facetious
01:01:01.300 my university
01:01:03.120 received
01:01:03.840 I don't know
01:01:04.260 hundreds of letters
01:01:05.800 saying that
01:01:06.940 I should be fired
01:01:08.220 because I was
01:01:09.620 treasonous
01:01:10.460 and calling
01:01:11.160 for a military coup
01:01:12.820 against Canada
01:01:13.900 this is the state
01:01:15.860 that we're in
01:01:16.540 amazing
01:01:17.460 I look at
01:01:19.080 the Sydney Sweeney
01:01:20.840 ad for a second
01:01:21.780 and you look
01:01:22.940 at something like
01:01:23.520 that and you go
01:01:24.060 oh the 80s are back
01:01:25.060 or the 90s are back
01:01:26.160 and maybe this is
01:01:26.940 a return to normal
01:01:27.860 where you see
01:01:28.360 the average person
01:01:29.440 looks at that
01:01:30.140 and says
01:01:30.820 well this is marketing
01:01:31.780 you're trying to sell
01:01:32.460 jeans and we know
01:01:33.280 what sells
01:01:33.920 but then I look
01:01:35.640 at the 12%
01:01:36.640 yes there was a poll
01:01:37.660 done by YouGov
01:01:38.760 on this
01:01:39.420 who said that
01:01:40.380 the ad was
01:01:41.040 glorifying Nazism
01:01:43.260 and eugenics
01:01:44.280 do you think
01:01:45.460 that if the average
01:01:46.140 person
01:01:46.460 we talk about
01:01:46.860 the silent majority
01:01:47.760 all the time
01:01:48.400 do you think
01:01:48.760 that's the key
01:01:49.400 to victory
01:01:49.900 because you look
01:01:50.440 at all people
01:01:50.840 who went and
01:01:51.240 bought jeans
01:01:51.820 or the stock
01:01:52.900 price going up
01:01:53.740 and do you think
01:01:54.480 that if more people
01:01:55.120 actually stepped up
01:01:55.960 that might be
01:01:56.420 the solution
01:01:56.820 yeah 100%
01:01:57.920 I mean one of the
01:01:58.840 reasons why
01:01:59.660 I'm so active
01:02:00.680 in the public arena
01:02:01.760 right
01:02:02.020 I mean I
01:02:02.780 for all of the fame
01:02:05.300 and notoriety
01:02:06.080 and so on
01:02:06.620 it's also very difficult
01:02:07.940 to be me
01:02:08.560 on a daily basis
01:02:09.280 I receive endless hate
01:02:10.700 I have to walk around
01:02:12.000 with protection
01:02:12.640 I can't walk
01:02:13.460 into campus
01:02:14.140 so there are a lot
01:02:15.220 of costs
01:02:15.880 that I incur
01:02:17.260 beyond just the fact
01:02:18.800 that oh I'm protected
01:02:19.820 by tenure
01:02:20.460 right
01:02:20.920 I can't ever show
01:02:22.140 photos of my children
01:02:23.480 or wife
01:02:24.140 that's why you never
01:02:25.180 see any
01:02:25.660 and yet I do it
01:02:27.620 precisely to your point
01:02:29.260 because I'm always
01:02:30.540 trying to help people
01:02:32.780 catch courage
01:02:34.080 courage is contagious
01:02:36.260 right
01:02:36.660 I get a lot of people
01:02:37.900 who write to me
01:02:38.560 and say you know
01:02:39.240 after watching
01:02:40.360 X number of videos
01:02:42.120 of yours
01:02:42.660 I've decided to speak
01:02:44.120 out at the school
01:02:45.380 meeting
01:02:46.020 or at the
01:02:46.680 against my professor
01:02:47.980 who was espousing
01:02:48.880 some nonsense
01:02:49.360 so the reality
01:02:50.460 is that
01:02:50.980 so when I'm
01:02:52.940 when I put on
01:02:53.560 my optimistic hat
01:02:54.620 I say
01:02:55.220 we can easily
01:02:56.820 win this battle
01:02:57.600 because the silent
01:02:58.780 majority
01:02:59.240 is truly
01:03:00.360 way ahead
01:03:02.480 in the lead
01:03:03.000 in terms of
01:03:03.480 it's more than
01:03:04.500 88 to 12 percent
01:03:05.860 almost everybody
01:03:07.020 that I speak
01:03:07.640 to
01:03:07.860 hates this stuff
01:03:09.560 but
01:03:10.020 the silent
01:03:11.060 the loud
01:03:12.060 minority
01:03:12.680 are the ones
01:03:13.620 who keep
01:03:14.320 the rest of us
01:03:15.040 in check
01:03:15.480 so if
01:03:16.260 I can
01:03:16.660 get people
01:03:17.260 to light
01:03:17.840 their courage
01:03:18.640 the fire
01:03:19.120 under their feet
01:03:19.900 then I think
01:03:20.680 we can solve
01:03:21.180 this problem
01:03:21.580 by next Tuesday
01:03:22.220 the problem
01:03:22.880 is that
01:03:23.860 you know
01:03:24.340 there's the
01:03:24.700 seven deadly sins
01:03:25.700 well I've always
01:03:26.740 said that
01:03:27.200 we need to add
01:03:27.880 an eighth sin
01:03:28.720 called cowardice
01:03:29.800 it is unbelievable
01:03:31.460 how frightened
01:03:33.120 people are
01:03:34.380 of their shadow
01:03:35.140 it's and
01:03:35.920 especially in
01:03:36.900 academia
01:03:37.500 where you would
01:03:38.700 have thought
01:03:39.280 that having
01:03:40.300 tenure
01:03:40.840 is precisely
01:03:42.160 the mechanism
01:03:43.040 that protects
01:03:43.860 you from being
01:03:44.500 fired
01:03:44.860 that's why
01:03:45.720 you have
01:03:46.260 tenure
01:03:46.560 so that
01:03:46.940 you could
01:03:47.200 speak freely
01:03:47.900 and that
01:03:48.620 yet most
01:03:49.200 people
01:03:49.680 overestimate
01:03:51.220 the disastrous
01:03:52.380 consequences
01:03:53.220 of not being
01:03:54.000 invited to the
01:03:55.060 cool kids party
01:03:55.900 so even though
01:03:57.060 privately they might
01:03:58.060 say to me
01:03:58.480 you know I agree
01:03:59.120 with you
01:03:59.380 I hate Justin
01:04:00.120 Trudeau
01:04:00.540 they will never
01:04:01.420 post it
01:04:02.160 because all of
01:04:03.220 their faculty
01:04:03.800 members love
01:04:04.620 Justin Trudeau
01:04:06.040 so you have
01:04:07.380 to kind of
01:04:07.760 break out of
01:04:08.340 your apathy
01:04:08.940 and your cowardice
01:04:09.780 and hopefully
01:04:10.580 there'll be better
01:04:11.460 days in the future
01:04:12.160 do you think
01:04:13.280 anybody in this
01:04:13.940 room should send
01:04:14.520 their kids
01:04:14.940 to college
01:04:15.500 I do
01:04:17.480 I do
01:04:17.940 I don't think
01:04:18.900 that universities
01:04:19.620 are irrevocably
01:04:21.180 damaged
01:04:21.600 I think
01:04:22.160 the key
01:04:25.000 is to make
01:04:26.020 sure that you
01:04:26.740 spend your time
01:04:27.840 wisely in
01:04:28.580 university
01:04:29.060 so don't
01:04:30.060 take
01:04:30.460 you know
01:04:31.100 underwater
01:04:31.800 lesbian dance
01:04:33.000 therapy
01:04:33.500 don't do
01:04:35.320 this kind
01:04:35.660 of stuff
01:04:35.960 study
01:04:36.820 neuroscience
01:04:37.500 and study
01:04:38.460 you know
01:04:39.280 it's a whole
01:04:41.940 bunch of stuff
01:04:42.360 whatever I say
01:04:43.820 somebody's going
01:04:44.320 to be offended
01:04:44.860 you could even
01:04:45.620 study Shakespeare
01:04:46.640 but it wedded
01:04:48.520 to reason
01:04:49.340 right
01:04:49.700 rather than
01:04:51.500 decolonize
01:04:52.840 all authors
01:04:53.940 who happen
01:04:54.500 to be
01:04:55.000 straight white
01:04:55.960 men
01:04:56.240 right
01:04:56.420 so make
01:04:57.720 sure to
01:04:58.500 have your
01:04:59.460 kids
01:04:59.880 attend the
01:05:01.020 right
01:05:01.300 university
01:05:01.660 by the way
01:05:02.100 the reason why
01:05:02.860 I chose
01:05:03.360 the two
01:05:03.720 universities
01:05:04.180 that I've
01:05:04.520 been doing
01:05:04.800 visiting
01:05:05.100 professorships
01:05:05.740 at
01:05:06.020 the last
01:05:06.620 two years
01:05:07.080 is precisely
01:05:08.120 because they
01:05:08.800 imbue
01:05:09.360 the types
01:05:10.120 of values
01:05:10.700 that I
01:05:11.080 would want
01:05:11.460 my kids
01:05:11.920 to attend
01:05:12.620 that university
01:05:13.240 and so
01:05:14.060 pick your
01:05:14.780 schools carefully
01:05:15.460 and I think
01:05:16.000 it'll be all
01:05:16.400 fine
01:05:16.620 you talk a lot
01:05:17.640 in your book
01:05:18.120 about social
01:05:19.140 contagion
01:05:19.900 idea pathogens
01:05:21.280 right
01:05:21.620 and we see
01:05:22.940 that happening
01:05:23.360 in high schools
01:05:24.020 we see that
01:05:24.560 happening in
01:05:25.020 middle schools
01:05:25.540 we see that
01:05:26.040 happening
01:05:26.340 everywhere
01:05:26.660 what are
01:05:27.060 some tools
01:05:27.540 people can
01:05:28.040 use
01:05:28.320 to combat
01:05:29.260 that
01:05:29.600 when the
01:05:30.020 schools
01:05:30.260 have their
01:05:30.620 kids
01:05:31.000 for eight
01:05:31.880 or more
01:05:32.300 hours a
01:05:32.760 day
01:05:32.940 just be
01:05:34.520 involved
01:05:34.860 there's
01:05:35.340 no magic
01:05:36.520 recipe
01:05:36.800 so I'll
01:05:37.080 give you
01:05:37.240 an example
01:05:37.680 this is a
01:05:39.420 story about
01:05:39.780 my daughter
01:05:40.280 so I
01:05:41.280 think she
01:05:41.580 was maybe
01:05:41.960 in grade
01:05:42.440 five or
01:05:43.100 six
01:05:43.600 her
01:05:44.520 science
01:05:45.840 teacher
01:05:46.780 had put
01:05:47.820 up
01:05:48.240 sort of
01:05:49.400 a moniker
01:05:49.960 of
01:05:50.520 hashtag
01:05:51.340 BLM
01:05:52.080 or whatever
01:05:52.780 it was
01:05:53.180 at the
01:05:53.420 time
01:05:53.660 around
01:05:54.160 2020
01:05:54.620 2021
01:05:54.940 and I
01:05:56.200 wrote
01:05:56.620 a very
01:05:57.060 polite
01:05:57.480 but honey
01:05:58.480 badgerish
01:05:59.320 type of
01:06:00.100 email
01:06:00.500 to the
01:06:01.500 principal
01:06:02.120 saying
01:06:02.820 look I'm
01:06:03.320 a university
01:06:03.940 professor
01:06:04.440 and I
01:06:05.200 don't walk
01:06:05.680 into a
01:06:06.060 classroom
01:06:06.420 and espouse
01:06:07.040 my political
01:06:07.620 beliefs
01:06:07.960 if I'm
01:06:08.340 tasked with
01:06:09.620 teaching
01:06:09.960 evolutionary
01:06:10.480 psychology
01:06:11.080 I talk
01:06:11.900 about
01:06:12.120 evolutionary
01:06:12.500 psychology
01:06:12.920 there's a
01:06:13.340 place for
01:06:13.680 me to
01:06:13.900 talk about
01:06:14.400 Justin Trudeau
01:06:15.340 and Donald
01:06:15.720 Trump
01:06:15.980 and it's
01:06:16.280 not when
01:06:16.600 I'm teaching
01:06:16.960 evolutionary
01:06:17.400 psychology
01:06:17.920 and that's
01:06:18.680 why I'm
01:06:18.920 very disciplined
01:06:19.580 in my
01:06:20.000 pedagogic
01:06:20.740 pursuits
01:06:21.160 and so
01:06:22.380 your science
01:06:23.420 teacher should
01:06:23.980 not have
01:06:24.440 this bullshit
01:06:24.940 BLM
01:06:25.460 and free
01:06:25.800 Palestine
01:06:26.220 and so on
01:06:26.720 and guess
01:06:27.360 what
01:06:27.600 she took
01:06:28.600 it down
01:06:28.980 right
01:06:29.500 now it
01:06:30.220 might be
01:06:30.680 because
01:06:31.120 I happen
01:06:32.220 to be
01:06:32.620 God
01:06:32.920 sad
01:06:33.200 and maybe
01:06:33.600 she's a
01:06:34.000 bit worried
01:06:34.460 that given
01:06:35.320 my reach
01:06:35.900 I might
01:06:36.220 cause a
01:06:36.620 hole
01:06:36.780 but even
01:06:37.660 if you
01:06:37.940 have a
01:06:38.260 small voice
01:06:38.840 don't
01:06:39.120 underestimate
01:06:39.660 the power
01:06:40.300 of your
01:06:40.620 voice
01:06:40.900 not everybody
01:06:41.840 has Joe
01:06:42.500 Rogan's reach
01:06:43.220 and not
01:06:43.560 everybody has
01:06:44.200 Elon Musk's
01:06:44.900 reach
01:06:45.060 but don't
01:06:46.020 think that
01:06:46.520 your voice
01:06:46.960 doesn't matter
01:06:47.520 your voice
01:06:48.080 your voice
01:06:48.540 and your
01:06:48.780 voice
01:06:49.000 and suddenly
01:06:49.440 we get
01:06:50.100 rid of the
01:06:50.460 idea pathogens
01:06:51.160 we go to
01:06:52.220 the text line
01:06:52.920 and we take a
01:06:54.360 look and I see
01:06:54.860 a lot of listeners
01:06:55.420 of the Ari Hoffman
01:06:56.180 show out there
01:06:56.700 because I've seen
01:06:57.200 a lot of these
01:06:57.580 questions before
01:06:58.380 this is a good
01:06:59.540 one
01:06:59.780 how does one
01:07:00.680 have empathy
01:07:01.260 for the people
01:07:01.800 in Gaza
01:07:02.340 without embracing
01:07:03.600 a parasitic
01:07:04.300 version of
01:07:04.860 supporting Hamas
01:07:05.860 well
01:07:07.840 a child
01:07:11.540 who doesn't
01:07:12.660 know about
01:07:13.300 the ideological
01:07:14.080 commitments
01:07:14.720 of Israel
01:07:16.000 or Palestine
01:07:16.760 is worthy
01:07:18.040 of our empathy
01:07:18.860 right
01:07:19.200 I was that
01:07:20.340 child
01:07:20.760 growing up
01:07:21.320 in Lebanon
01:07:21.720 and I didn't
01:07:23.100 deserve to die
01:07:24.000 because I was
01:07:25.100 born into
01:07:25.560 this group
01:07:26.100 or that group
01:07:26.740 so it is
01:07:27.820 perfectly natural
01:07:28.720 for us to see
01:07:29.520 any dreadful
01:07:30.720 image of
01:07:31.360 innocent people
01:07:32.120 being killed
01:07:32.620 on either side
01:07:33.420 and feel empathy
01:07:34.480 for them
01:07:34.900 but I don't
01:07:37.040 have empathy
01:07:37.860 for the
01:07:38.580 ideological
01:07:39.200 commitments
01:07:39.960 that the
01:07:41.140 Palestinian
01:07:41.600 societies
01:07:42.340 have consistently
01:07:43.340 taken
01:07:43.880 right
01:07:44.340 they have
01:07:45.600 received
01:07:46.220 I don't know
01:07:46.860 the exact
01:07:47.220 number
01:07:47.520 but certainly
01:07:48.100 hundreds of
01:07:48.860 billions of
01:07:49.380 dollars
01:07:49.720 over the
01:07:50.660 past
01:07:51.140 since 1948
01:07:52.380 to have been
01:07:53.560 able to build
01:07:54.520 a paradise
01:07:55.700 on the
01:07:56.400 Mediterranean
01:07:56.820 sea
01:07:57.960 hundredfold
01:07:59.480 over
01:07:59.860 but they
01:08:00.680 made the
01:08:01.160 ideological
01:08:01.660 commitment
01:08:02.240 that there
01:08:03.020 was no
01:08:03.500 greater thing
01:08:04.360 that they
01:08:04.680 can do
01:08:05.200 than to
01:08:06.280 eradicate
01:08:06.980 those pesky
01:08:07.960 Jews
01:08:08.360 that lived
01:08:08.880 next door
01:08:09.440 so I
01:08:10.680 have
01:08:11.100 infinite
01:08:11.920 empathy
01:08:12.460 to individual
01:08:13.520 innocent
01:08:14.040 Palestinians
01:08:14.620 and zero
01:08:15.820 empathy
01:08:16.300 to the
01:08:17.540 ideological
01:08:18.360 forces
01:08:19.100 that organize
01:08:20.340 Palestinian
01:08:20.880 society
01:08:21.420 follow-up
01:08:22.520 question to
01:08:23.020 that one
01:08:23.460 and this
01:08:24.160 one
01:08:24.300 I'm
01:08:24.440 very
01:08:24.720 interested
01:08:25.140 in
01:08:25.280 your
01:08:25.420 take
01:08:25.640 on
01:08:25.780 because
01:08:25.940 I
01:08:26.040 know
01:08:26.160 how
01:08:26.280 I
01:08:26.460 would
01:08:26.600 answer
01:08:26.840 this
01:08:27.060 one
01:08:27.240 but
01:08:28.080 why
01:08:28.580 the
01:08:28.740 hatred
01:08:28.960 for the
01:08:29.360 Jews
01:08:29.640 specifically
01:08:30.300 that's a
01:08:31.160 great question
01:08:31.600 it's a
01:08:32.360 long answer
01:08:33.280 but I'll
01:08:33.660 I'll give you
01:08:35.260 one particular
01:08:36.420 answer that
01:08:37.100 comes from
01:08:37.920 my
01:08:38.900 psychological
01:08:39.960 training
01:08:40.500 so
01:08:42.460 a very
01:08:44.360 powerful
01:08:44.900 effect
01:08:45.420 in psychology
01:08:46.180 is known
01:08:46.760 as the
01:08:47.080 self-serving
01:08:47.680 bias
01:08:48.140 the
01:08:48.880 self-serving
01:08:49.540 bias
01:08:50.080 refers to
01:08:50.920 how
01:08:51.220 people
01:08:51.780 attribute
01:08:52.920 causality
01:08:53.720 to their
01:08:54.320 life events
01:08:55.260 so
01:08:55.700 people
01:08:56.480 tend to
01:08:56.880 attribute
01:08:57.280 successes
01:08:57.860 internally
01:08:58.560 and failures
01:09:00.080 externally
01:09:00.780 right
01:09:01.500 so
01:09:01.780 I did
01:09:02.660 very well
01:09:03.240 on the
01:09:03.520 exam
01:09:04.000 because
01:09:04.660 I'm
01:09:04.900 very
01:09:05.200 smart
01:09:05.540 and I
01:09:05.820 studied
01:09:06.080 hard
01:09:06.360 that's
01:09:06.620 an
01:09:06.760 internal
01:09:07.100 attribution
01:09:07.680 if I
01:09:08.460 did
01:09:08.620 poorly
01:09:08.900 on the
01:09:09.200 exam
01:09:09.500 I
01:09:10.120 did
01:09:10.320 very
01:09:10.600 poorly
01:09:10.860 on
01:09:11.020 the
01:09:11.140 exam
01:09:11.480 because
01:09:11.960 Professor
01:09:12.420 Saad
01:09:12.860 is a
01:09:13.300 mean
01:09:13.820 bastard
01:09:14.360 Jew
01:09:14.740 right
01:09:15.320 so
01:09:15.720 I'm
01:09:15.900 attributing
01:09:16.400 failures
01:09:16.920 externally
01:09:17.500 now
01:09:18.340 imagine
01:09:18.960 if
01:09:19.560 all
01:09:20.360 of
01:09:20.560 my
01:09:20.800 failures
01:09:21.420 can
01:09:22.000 be
01:09:22.360 readily
01:09:23.240 attributed
01:09:24.600 to an
01:09:25.520 external
01:09:26.020 agent
01:09:26.580 called
01:09:26.960 the
01:09:27.140 diabolical
01:09:27.840 Jew
01:09:28.180 it rained
01:09:29.300 today
01:09:29.740 it's the
01:09:30.400 Jews
01:09:30.660 fault
01:09:31.040 I didn't
01:09:32.240 get the
01:09:32.740 loan
01:09:33.000 from the
01:09:33.420 bank
01:09:33.700 who
01:09:34.260 controls
01:09:34.720 the
01:09:34.900 banks
01:09:35.160 the
01:09:35.340 Jews
01:09:35.600 your
01:09:36.220 son
01:09:36.500 is
01:09:36.640 addicted
01:09:36.960 to
01:09:37.240 pornography
01:09:37.800 who
01:09:38.660 controls
01:09:39.340 pornography
01:09:40.000 the
01:09:40.280 Jews
01:09:40.580 of course
01:09:41.220 these
01:09:41.600 things
01:09:41.820 might
01:09:42.040 objectively
01:09:42.520 not
01:09:42.800 be
01:09:42.980 true
01:09:43.340 but
01:09:43.860 it
01:09:44.000 becomes
01:09:44.360 very
01:09:44.720 easy
01:09:45.220 to
01:09:45.480 attribute
01:09:45.900 all
01:09:46.340 of my
01:09:46.680 personal
01:09:47.320 and collective
01:09:48.280 failures
01:09:48.840 on one
01:09:49.380 group
01:09:49.620 but the
01:09:49.960 next question
01:09:50.500 that then
01:09:50.820 begs to be
01:09:51.220 asked
01:09:51.420 but why
01:09:52.460 should the
01:09:52.980 Jew be
01:09:53.500 the one
01:09:54.360 that we
01:09:54.700 attribute
01:09:55.020 all those
01:09:55.480 failures
01:09:55.820 and here
01:09:56.440 there's a
01:09:57.160 very easy
01:09:57.700 answer
01:09:58.160 and that
01:09:59.160 is that
01:09:59.560 Jewish people
01:10:00.800 have always
01:10:01.780 held the
01:10:02.300 status
01:10:02.720 of what
01:10:03.520 Amy Chua
01:10:04.220 who's the
01:10:04.840 mentor of
01:10:05.640 J.D.
01:10:06.480 Vance
01:10:06.740 she's the
01:10:07.180 law professor
01:10:07.760 at Yale
01:10:08.160 and a
01:10:09.080 friend of
01:10:09.380 mine
01:10:09.580 she calls
01:10:11.260 Jews
01:10:12.640 among other
01:10:13.380 people
01:10:13.740 minority
01:10:17.180 I can't
01:10:19.640 remember
01:10:19.780 the exact
01:10:20.060 meaning
01:10:20.400 they're a
01:10:21.680 very small
01:10:22.400 group
01:10:22.960 within a
01:10:24.460 much larger
01:10:25.180 society
01:10:25.800 yet they
01:10:26.480 are over
01:10:27.160 represented
01:10:27.840 in their
01:10:28.680 success
01:10:29.220 it's not
01:10:30.320 only Jews
01:10:30.900 that have
01:10:31.360 this quality
01:10:32.060 but certainly
01:10:33.440 Jews have
01:10:34.540 had it
01:10:35.100 more often
01:10:35.980 than any
01:10:36.440 other group
01:10:37.000 across more
01:10:38.360 societies than
01:10:39.120 any other
01:10:39.540 group
01:10:39.820 right
01:10:40.040 so
01:10:40.620 anywhere
01:10:41.720 you go
01:10:42.440 you look
01:10:43.200 at who's
01:10:43.940 leading in
01:10:44.440 academia
01:10:44.920 I mean
01:10:45.260 Jews
01:10:45.820 have won
01:10:46.860 nearly 25%
01:10:48.200 of Nobel
01:10:48.860 prizes
01:10:49.360 they make
01:10:50.300 up 0.2%
01:10:52.200 of all
01:10:52.900 people
01:10:53.240 right
01:10:53.940 and there's
01:10:55.340 a reason
01:10:55.740 why learning
01:10:56.840 is so important
01:10:57.520 for the Jewish
01:10:58.040 cause
01:10:58.220 but we don't
01:10:58.800 have to talk
01:10:59.180 about it
01:10:59.460 here
01:10:59.600 and so
01:11:00.400 it becomes
01:11:01.280 very easy
01:11:02.200 when I'm
01:11:02.860 consistently
01:11:03.580 failing
01:11:04.160 in my
01:11:04.560 endeavors
01:11:05.020 to look
01:11:05.920 at this
01:11:06.320 minuscule
01:11:06.960 group of
01:11:07.640 assholes
01:11:08.180 over there
01:11:08.740 who are
01:11:09.660 the head
01:11:10.540 of the
01:11:11.580 bank
01:11:12.480 the head
01:11:13.180 of the
01:11:13.720 philanthropy
01:11:14.140 group
01:11:14.660 the wealthiest
01:11:15.540 guys
01:11:15.940 there must
01:11:17.120 be something
01:11:17.800 satanic
01:11:18.640 and evil
01:11:19.680 about them
01:11:20.320 that they
01:11:20.880 are consistently
01:11:21.880 on top
01:11:22.580 despite the
01:11:23.460 fact that
01:11:23.880 they are so
01:11:24.360 minuscule
01:11:24.960 therefore
01:11:25.860 that proves
01:11:26.660 my point
01:11:27.180 that they
01:11:27.720 are satanic
01:11:28.420 and hence
01:11:29.180 it serves
01:11:30.020 my self-serving
01:11:31.140 bias
01:11:31.540 I think
01:11:32.900 this is my
01:11:33.540 favorite question
01:11:34.460 from the audience
01:11:35.160 today
01:11:35.480 I'm going to
01:11:36.300 read it verbatim
01:11:37.020 we have a few
01:11:37.740 young women
01:11:38.380 in the audience
01:11:39.020 here
01:11:39.300 who have
01:11:40.060 spoken up
01:11:40.460 to protect
01:11:40.980 female athletes
01:11:41.880 competing against
01:11:42.760 males who identify
01:11:43.780 as girls
01:11:44.400 they've taken
01:11:45.600 a lot of
01:11:46.220 backlash
01:11:46.800 what kind of
01:11:47.700 advice would
01:11:48.200 you offer
01:11:48.600 them
01:11:48.860 keep going
01:11:49.680 keep speaking
01:11:50.400 truth
01:11:50.780 Riley Gaines
01:11:52.220 I mean
01:11:53.040 it's great
01:11:54.440 that Riley Gaines
01:11:55.840 has the voice
01:11:56.540 that she has
01:11:57.160 and that she's
01:11:57.620 a honey badger
01:11:58.240 but imagine
01:11:59.240 for a second
01:11:59.740 stop back
01:12:00.500 and think
01:12:00.920 in the 21st
01:12:03.420 century
01:12:04.020 a woman
01:12:05.820 is getting
01:12:07.060 all these
01:12:07.780 accolades
01:12:08.660 for telling
01:12:09.860 the world
01:12:10.660 that it is
01:12:11.400 unfair
01:12:12.200 in women's
01:12:13.440 sports
01:12:13.980 to have
01:12:15.040 men compete
01:12:16.160 in those
01:12:16.620 sports
01:12:16.920 what a hero
01:12:18.020 right
01:12:18.540 I'm not
01:12:19.460 minimizing
01:12:20.800 it really
01:12:21.880 did take
01:12:22.380 courage
01:12:22.660 on her
01:12:22.920 part
01:12:23.080 but imagine
01:12:23.680 how
01:12:24.180 parasitized
01:12:25.060 and let me
01:12:26.040 put this
01:12:26.520 in context
01:12:26.980 this is an
01:12:28.060 actual number
01:12:28.780 the estimate
01:12:29.540 of the number
01:12:30.260 of humans
01:12:31.040 that have
01:12:31.440 lived
01:12:31.800 since
01:12:32.460 Homo sapiens
01:12:33.160 came to be
01:12:33.720 is about
01:12:34.420 117 billion
01:12:35.820 people
01:12:36.280 okay
01:12:36.660 so until
01:12:38.320 15 minutes
01:12:39.280 ago
01:12:39.680 the 117
01:12:41.220 billion people
01:12:42.060 that have
01:12:42.380 ever existed
01:12:43.180 seem to be
01:12:44.420 able to fully
01:12:45.260 understand
01:12:45.880 the very
01:12:46.480 complicated
01:12:47.100 conundrum
01:12:47.720 of identifying
01:12:48.920 who is
01:12:49.360 male and
01:12:49.900 female
01:12:50.260 it turns out
01:12:51.020 that each
01:12:51.480 one of your
01:12:51.920 ancestors
01:12:52.440 was able
01:12:53.140 to exactly
01:12:53.900 understand that
01:12:54.640 but now
01:12:55.340 we need
01:12:55.740 Riley Gaines
01:12:56.500 to explain
01:12:57.040 to us
01:12:57.460 that it
01:12:57.880 is unfair
01:12:58.460 that is
01:12:59.680 exactly
01:13:00.260 why the
01:13:00.900 parasitic
01:13:01.400 mind
01:13:01.740 has so
01:13:02.480 resonated
01:13:02.980 because it
01:13:03.600 takes a
01:13:04.160 zombified
01:13:04.780 mind
01:13:05.200 to be able
01:13:06.280 to be
01:13:06.760 discussing
01:13:07.480 such issues
01:13:08.340 in the
01:13:08.700 21st century
01:13:09.500 professor
01:13:10.720 thank you
01:13:11.180 so much
01:13:11.660 for joining
01:13:12.040 us today
01:13:12.480 really appreciate
01:13:13.100 that
01:13:13.580 and remember
01:13:19.260 you can get
01:13:19.840 professor
01:13:20.260 sadd's book
01:13:21.100 out in the
01:13:21.980 lobby
01:13:22.340 the parasitic
01:13:23.100 mind
01:13:23.500 all right
01:13:25.040 fantastic