The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - Parasitic Ideas + Suicidal Empathy = Death of the West - Heterodox Conference (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

00:00:00.000 let's let's move forward so the title of uh of the panel is plus exclusion or true belief now

00:00:09.360 i've been told to keep intros to a bare minimum um gad said is our first speaker uh who has 20

00:00:16.000 minutes uh to present on parasitic ideas i was still 25 throughout

00:00:21.200 parasitic ideas and suicidal empathy are killing the west as many of you know

00:00:36.320 gad is an evolutionary behavioral scientist uh professor of marketing author of the parasitic

00:00:42.720 mind and a forthcoming book uh which i think everybody's very excited about suicidal

00:00:48.000 empathy of course you probably listen to the sad truth the podcast and if you're like me you see

00:00:52.960 him popping up on your youtube feed every five minutes but make sure you check out his youtube

00:00:58.320 channel again the floor is yours for 25 minutes well it's nice to meet some people in person that i only

00:01:11.520 know through the online meetings so great to meet you i'll be on a second box i can appear through

00:01:16.880 45 minutes apologies to the few people who were at yesterday's event i was told that very there'd be

00:01:22.480 a very very little overlap between yesterday's audience and today's audience so if some of my

00:01:28.960 incredibly funny jokes of yesterday really yesterday apologies but usually the tedium effect for humor

00:01:35.280 takes a while to take hold so hopefully you'll still find me funny and hopefully in-house thing so

00:01:41.040 what i'd like to talk about today is what's the parasitic mind and suicidal empathy and let me

00:01:46.480 contextualize what is the kind of unifying uh narrative behind these two books so if i want if i wish to

00:01:54.000 fully zombify a human being i need to do two things i need to precipice their cognitive system

00:02:01.280 hence the parasitic mind but i also then need to zombify or parasitize your emotional system and

00:02:08.800 suicidal empathy i'll spend much of the time talking about parasitic mind and then i'll give you a few hints of

00:02:14.800 uh social uh social empathy so bear with me so there are two great wars that i have faced in my life

00:02:21.440 the first war the one uh from my childhood the lebanese civil war uh had i had a bit more time i would

00:02:27.360 have talked a bit more about it because there are some really interesting lessons that we can think

00:02:31.920 say from my childhood in terms of relumacy that we see today and then the second great war is the war on

00:02:38.400 reason science logic common sense that i've experienced or witnessed for 31 years as a

00:02:44.640 professor and it is particularly something that i've witnessed because in my own research

00:02:50.720 i applied evolutionary psychology and evolutionary biological principle in studying human behavior in

00:02:56.400 general consumer behavior and economic behavior in particular now that to me seems like a very obvious

00:03:02.320 proposition that of course human beings consume consumers employers employees are biological agents

00:03:08.720 but to most of my social scientist colleagues that's crazy talk to most of my colleagues in the

00:03:14.400 business school that's crazy so i originally saw many of these parasitic ideas which subsequently people

00:03:20.400 refer to as focus and i saw them very early in my career in mid 90s and so what i'll do is i'll just

00:03:27.760 i'll skip all the level of stuff i'll just mention this slide i'm gonna leave from concordia university

00:03:36.480 because it became too dangerous for me as a uh outspoken jewish professor to be a concordia university for

00:03:45.120 for those of you who think that whichever university you're at there's this laden with jew hatred it is

00:03:51.520 child's play compared to concordia university concordia university has been referred to colloquially as

00:03:56.960 gaza university for well over 20 years so someone with my crowbar has a very hard time walking on

00:04:03.840 campus so i would have to go in to future lectures surrounded by security visit in the 21st century

00:04:10.080 in montreal canada so you can try to ignore the problem but the problem's not going to go away

00:04:15.360 this is an actual photo of the swap police the montreal city swap police that is there to protect

00:04:22.320 jewish students to go into the building this is the reality that we're seeing now i said that one

00:04:30.320 of the wars i faced was the the war in the the nisa award and i alluded to my scientific court i just

00:04:37.520 want to mention a few examples of the evolution psychology research that i've done and i think most

00:04:42.400 of you will nod and say yeah that makes perfect sense but if you saw the number of desk projections i

00:04:47.120 had received from journals because i was arguing that human beings are biological beings you simply

00:04:53.200 wouldn't believe it and so i'll just give you two examples of research i've done in one set of studies

00:04:57.760 we looked at how imbuing men with high status via specific products so we actually brought men had them

00:05:06.160 drive either a force and i tell people that the real accomplishment of that study was to try to

00:05:12.240 convince a grant aid agency to give you money so that you could rent a porsche over the weekend

00:05:18.480 and we did and so we brought people to the lab had them drive either a porsche or a beaten up old car

00:05:24.640 either in downtown montreal which is a lek which is a zoological term where you can sort of peacock or on

00:05:31.440 a semi-deserted highway and the dependent measure was salivary assays so that we could then watch what

00:05:37.040 happens here endocrinological system uh when you are either viewed with a social win or social loss

00:05:42.480 not surprisingly to anybody in this room you put young men in a porsche and the endocrinological

00:05:47.120 system explodes so that was the first set of studies the second set of studies we looked at what

00:05:52.480 happens to women's beautification practices across the menstrual cycle and so we measured women across

00:05:59.840 35 continuous days because 35 days covers on average all menstrual cycle lives on average about 28

00:06:06.880 days and we saw as exactly what it predicted that during the maximally fertile phase of the menstrual

00:06:13.120 cycle this is when when this above em and judafide installs the most this is when they wear the

00:06:17.760 stilettos this is when they walk with uh you know the sweat pass this is when they wear makeup when

00:06:23.360 they're more scantily quiet and exactly the same way in a homologous way how other female species do it

00:06:29.360 in their own ways with advanced species so it should be a no-brainer that biology should be relevant

00:06:34.560 and expanding human behavior but the parasitized degenerates in academia thought that it was

00:06:40.480 completely ridiculous that i would be applying biology now they're coming around to saying oh

00:06:45.040 yeah i guess you were maybe right right and so this is so the parasitic mind is really a book that i've

00:06:50.640 been writing in my head for 30 plus years even though officially it came out in 2020. so there are

00:06:58.480 so let me now explain the neural personological framework there are basically two sets of pathogens

00:07:05.680 that really affect the human condition the first one you're all familiar with it's the viruses the

00:07:14.880 fungi the parasites the bacteria that have killed untold millions billions of people around the world

00:07:21.440 throughout history but then i argue of course that there's a second class of pathogens parasitic ideas idea

00:07:28.160 pathogens that also destroy our capacity to think to engage in critical thinking and so on and so

00:07:37.200 just to give you a bit of a background to how i got that idea i started with mercy myself and the

00:07:41.920 parasitology literature which is the study of uh host parasite interactions but of course parasites

00:07:50.640 and say in the human context can go to different organs in your body so a tapeworm compressifies your

00:07:56.560 intestinal tract a neural parasite though needs to end up in your brain altering your neuronal circuitry to

00:08:04.560 suit its reproductive interests typically and so i'll give you a few examples i won't go through all of

00:08:09.520 these but in the top one you see a spider uh wasp that it stings the much larger spider rendering it fully

00:08:18.640 zombified but fully alive uh pulls it to its burrow lays its eggs on it and then as the eggs hatch it then

00:08:28.080 they eat it in vivo and so you could think of political correctness as the spider wasp's thing right

00:08:34.400 because it leads us quietly at me click the abyss of infinite donacy yes yes men too can menstruate yes yes

00:08:41.680 right and so it's the exact same mechanism you have become zombified you have become

00:08:46.960 precipice so yes i mean it's a metaphor but it it literally is what is happening to your capacity to

00:08:54.400 reason because until 15 minutes ago the 117 billion people that have existed on earth were able to fully

00:09:01.600 navigate through the penundrum of what constitutes the male and female phenotype but after you take a

00:09:06.720 course and women's study at oberland you're no longer able to pat that's a very very difficult

00:09:12.400 decision but every one of our ancestors seem to have been able to navigate through the civil problem

00:09:18.240 i'll just skip to the wood cricket because this has become a viral term that i the people have

00:09:24.880 adopted from me when i call someone for example a wood cricket jew so the wood cricket abhors water this is

00:09:32.480 this met right here if i want hockey to do with water but when it is parasitized by a hair worm the hair

00:09:39.200 worm needs the wood cricket to jump into water in order for it to complete its reproductive cycle so

00:09:45.280 when a wood cricket is parasitized in this manner it willfully will commit suicide in the service of

00:09:51.680 the hair worm so now you can start seeing how parasitic mime and suicidal empathy start going together

00:09:57.680 so let's look at some wood crickets in the human form squares for palestine at the griffith

00:10:04.320 manifestation as i explained that yesterday's uh talk in london uh if you're queer more power to you

00:10:12.080 great if that's how you present yourself to the world then the decision becomes if i am queer should i

00:10:19.680 put my eggs in supporting tel aviv which is one of the most queer friendly cities in the world or should i put

00:10:26.160 my eggs in defending a society where they've come up with a really innovative form of some virgin

00:10:31.440 therapy it's a gravity based and we call you off the roof pop and then the problem is solved with

00:10:39.040 your queers right but of course when you're queers for palestine it's all about gaza jewish anna epstein

00:10:46.240 is a wood critic jew because she decided at boston university to when after the hamas folks uh did

00:10:53.440 a little uh sortie into uh southern israel uh to rip down the posters of the infants the jewish infants

00:11:02.240 so imagine what her moral compass must look like in saying that never mind this wasn't that she pulled

00:11:09.120 down the poster of a young man who could have been in the ibf she was very gleefully and proudly pulling

00:11:15.440 down the photos of the four months old and six month old babies and she's jewish now had she been in at

00:11:20.800 the nova festival she would have ended up in the same situation as the rest of people who were there

00:11:25.600 but she's more enlightened empathetic and progressive again and then the third example that uh he's going

00:11:32.480 to be very famous because he's going to be in the first chapter of of suicidal empathy is a norwegian

00:11:38.000 man who had been sodomized by a somali immigrant and after the somali immigrant served a very like sentence

00:11:45.760 because in norway they're much kinder than the rest of the world uh you don't want to punish

00:11:51.680 criminals you want to rehabilitate and reintegrate them to society very quickly

00:11:56.400 he was going to be deported back to somalia and that created huge amount of emotional emotional

00:12:03.120 existential angst in the rate p because then using maslow's term i'm using maslow's term the somali

00:12:11.760 sodomizer could not be fully self-actualized into the issue so there's that issue but he felt

00:12:17.120 guilty that the somali rapist would not be fully flourishing that is not an evolutionary reflex that

00:12:24.640 most of us have been in doubt with this is khalenitzan jewish khalenitzav with cricket jirup khalenitzan

00:12:33.200 who was doing her phd at hebrew university and who was trying to identify uh the rampant rape

00:12:43.360 of palestinian women by ibf soldiers that that was her work in hypothesis uh to her utter dismay when

00:12:50.960 she found out that she couldn't identify a single base even after speaking with all of the palestinian

00:12:57.280 women uh it turns out that that didn't dissuade her from her sort of meta uh conclusion which is

00:13:04.960 that the idf soldiers are truly evil well how could it be that they are evil if none of them had raped

00:13:10.880 anybody well it's because the idf soldiers so dehumanize so other palestinian women that they're

00:13:18.000 not even worthy of being raped so she found a way to take not a single instance of rape as a

00:13:25.200 manifestation of her working hypothesis that the idf soldiers are truly diabolical that's what parasitic

00:13:31.840 thinking looks like so what are manifestations of ideological parasites well all of these you've

00:13:41.360 probably heard of them by now but of course the granddaddy of them uh is post-modernism because that

00:13:47.120 is the one that allows many of the other parasitic ideas to flourish there are no objective truths other

00:13:53.280 than the one objective truth but there are no objective truths if that's true then men can be

00:13:57.920 women cup is down left is right slavery is freedom and so on and so forth right and so post-modernism is

00:14:04.560 truly a form of intellectual nihilism what i call intellectual terrorism right if if the 9-11 hijackers

00:14:14.000 uh flew uh planes onto the uh the buildings uh post-modernists fly planes of bullshit into our end of

00:14:22.240 the pacific reason let me give you a few examples from uh canada recent ones uh and i'm only using

00:14:30.960 examples from canada because i'm canadian uh university of waterloo which is one of our top engineering

00:14:38.000 computer science schools had a call because of course everybody's now woken up to artificial intelligence

00:14:44.000 even though i'm called to say that i was studying artificial intelligence in the mid-1980s as a

00:14:49.600 mathic computer science student uh and so if you look at the and by the way these are these are

00:14:54.960 endowed professorships that are endowed by the canadian government so they're the most prestigious

00:15:00.720 uh chair professorships and so you would really think that this is where maybe we we are really

00:15:05.600 looking for excellence and it's it's truly a people's of meritocracy well let's look at the first this

00:15:11.680 this is this is not shard sapphire this is literal right i'm taking a screenshot of the actual call

00:15:17.600 so for the first position all areas of artificial intelligence are open the cause open draw only to

00:15:24.240 qualified individuals who self-identify as women transgender gender fluid the non-binary or fruit spirit

00:15:30.640 now this is so at yesterday's event sort of the the working uh question was is woke dead no it's not in

00:15:38.080 canada this is at my own university although i'm currently a visiting professor of the united states

00:15:44.720 but my home university uh concordia university uh the bottom one is a project that's funded by our

00:15:52.000 taxpayers uh that stopped to or seek students i think it's still ongoing seeks to decolonize light

00:16:00.000 right the physics of light you know the one where many physicists have won nobel prizes on but they all

00:16:05.840 suffer from something called original dermatological sin here they are white and so we can't fully trust

00:16:12.080 their their knowledge their epistemology and so we're going to now indigenize the study of light and

00:16:17.760 the taxpayers that's made up but that wasn't enough and so we came up with a five-year program

00:16:23.840 the five-year strategic plan of kubbcora university the number one ish is to decolonize and indigenize the

00:16:30.800 entire curriculum so it doesn't matter what you're teaching so i i study psychology of

00:16:36.240 decision making consumer psychology evolutionary psychology i would have to do a good faith effort

00:16:43.200 into decolonizing all those fields and indigenizing now you know why i'm by the room of taxes

00:16:53.040 uh this usually the setup of the story is quite funny but i i'm i'm worried about the time so i'll kind

00:16:58.160 of summarize it very quickly i in 2002 i had a conversation with uh the date of one of my

00:17:05.440 doctoral students who had just defended his phd and i found out that she was studying was a graduate

00:17:11.200 student in women's studies cultural anthropology and post-modernism to which i answer the ah so the

00:17:18.960 holy trinity of motion and and so i i had asked her you know are there any universal truths and she said

00:17:28.000 no and so what you're seeing here the slides i asked her if is it not true that only women

00:17:33.360 bear children within homo sapiens this is in 2002 so this is well before the transgender activism

00:17:38.880 and she said no because there's a japanese tribe on some japanese island where within the mythological

00:17:44.560 realm it is the men who bear children so by you keeping us barefoot and pregnant this is it this is

00:17:49.440 what you do so after i recovered from the mini stroke i had this thing i then asked her is it not true that

00:17:56.000 the sun rises in the east and sets in the west so there she went to she pulled out ja perry dog and

00:18:01.040 she said what do you mean by east and west and what do you mean by the sun that which you call the sun

00:18:05.280 i might call dancing hyena i said well fine the dancing hyena rises up the east and sets in the west

00:18:11.520 i said i don't play those label games now why why is always repeated the calvastro perfectly encapsulates

00:18:18.400 what happens to the human mind one once it is exposed to these it's kind of completely darwinian

00:18:25.840 there is no there's no epistemological exit from all this bullshit if we can't agree 23 years ago that

00:18:32.880 only women their children there's a thing called the sun uh then where do we go from there so i could have

00:18:38.880 told you every single thing that we see today 25 years ago if people had here to listen

00:18:44.240 uh here actually this is a couple of slides that i didn't mention much yesterday well i'd like to

00:18:51.920 think i've said a couple of new things today from yesterday uh so social constructivism and biophobia

00:18:57.280 are two quite academic parasitic ideas well biophobia is the field of reading biology to explain human

00:19:03.360 behavior and so if these are actual market actual market things where the very clever and progressive uh

00:19:10.240 toy company reverse the typical roles right and so typically the argument is that toy preferences are

00:19:17.120 socially constructed and so if i want to demonstrate that this is simply not true how would i go about

00:19:24.080 demonstrating that in other words how can i build a network of evidence that is so unassailable that you

00:19:31.200 have to concede that so far truth is on my side so the next slide is actually a really important one and i

00:19:37.280 hope that you know sort of people uh take it and apply to their own hearings of research so this is

00:19:43.200 called a normal life network of cumulative evidence in the center i'm trying to prove to you that uh

00:19:49.440 there is a sex specificity to corey preferences that is uh certainly sexually biaborate and then it

00:19:55.680 discuss what what would be the biological or evolutionary reasons for that but if i wanted to convince

00:20:00.240 you of that how would i go about doing that well that's i won't go through the entire network but i'll go

00:20:05.120 through enough of it but demonstrate this incredibly powerful epistemology so i can get you data from

00:20:10.800 developmental psychology where i can show you that children who are too young to yet be socialized

00:20:17.520 already exhibit those sex specific core preferences so that already is incredibly powerful it's it's a

00:20:24.160 it's a nail it it's a in your coffin but i'm not going to stop there i can get you data from other

00:20:30.400 species from vervet monkeys from rhesus monkeys and from chimpanzees showing you that their infants

00:20:35.840 exhibit the exact same sex specificity i can get you data from uh pediatric endocrinology where little

00:20:44.320 girls who suffer from congenital adrenal hyperplasia which masculinizes the behavior of little girls and

00:20:50.560 then morphological teachers i can show you that girls who suffer from that condition have an exact reversal

00:20:56.400 of their tort references they become they get to those of boys oh but professor sad you're you're

00:21:01.360 talking about western cultures oh no i can get your data from sub-saharan africa that have absolutely

00:21:07.600 nothing to do with the west where they have the exact same tort references oh but professor sad this is all

00:21:13.040 current time period oh okay i can get you data from 2500 years ago where on ancient funerary monuments

00:21:20.880 uh they they're showing kids playing an exact pick with the exact same types of toys as they do today

00:21:26.080 so i've gotten you data from across cultures across time periods across species across methodologies

00:21:32.080 across disciplines across dependent measures all of which point to the veracity of my position

00:21:38.880 so one of the reasons i think that i haven't been so uh is because i always build my requisite

00:21:47.600 from a logical network so if i go into an arena and many times i go into very hostile arenas and if

00:21:53.280 i've already built the normal logical network with luck to you if you wish to debate it so it's kind

00:21:57.680 of hard to cancel me if i've got this back in the up and so i would certainly uh implore you to sort

00:22:03.920 of develop that methodology within your overall debates let's talk quickly about ostrich parasitic syndrome

00:22:11.600 ostrich parasitic syndrome is something that i discussed in chapter six of uh the parasitic mind

00:22:16.720 which is basically of course i mean the ostrich doesn't literally do that but it's become a

00:22:21.840 metaphor for wanting to ignore reality which is exactly one of the battlefield conditions of someone

00:22:28.400 who is precipice and so here what i've got now this number keeps changing this is as up about a couple

00:22:34.640 weeks ago 47 506 terror attacks by the beautiful and peaceful religion of islam since 9 11 alone in 70

00:22:44.560 countries and i can get you data that's even more the number is bigger than that from academic sources

00:22:51.200 that are left-leaning so you certainly can't you couldn't say it's because it's zionist god who's

00:22:56.080 coming up with this data right so i can triangulate the veracity of that now in nearly every single

00:23:03.120 one of those cases the perpetrators will tell you exactly why they're doing it and they will evoke their

00:23:08.960 faith as to why they're doing it but uh the bien pensant and academia the good thinkers the politically

00:23:16.160 correct folks that are much more highfalutin and have a progressive list and know much better than you

00:23:21.600 can you have explained to us all these other reasons some of them by the way some of my colleagues here are

00:23:27.920 friends with uh i won't hold them against them uh but let me just show you a few uh i'll mention the same

00:23:34.720 ones as yesterday but i did have chosen other one look at the well the third one i'm really worried

00:23:39.920 about because my son who's 13 has been playing video games and so i'm really really worried that

00:23:45.360 he's up to being now recruited by isis as a levagese jew uh the fourth one is a really really good one

00:23:53.280 very uh progressive analysis it it turns out that many of the attackers in brussels i think it was brussels

00:24:01.120 uh they found out that it's because it could well be that during their teenage years they hadn't been

00:24:07.120 exposed to enough uh art good art and so for example i as i explained yesterday at the the event

00:24:14.560 my wife and i are insidious and ensuring that you know our children are exposed to shagal the body

00:24:20.400 gliani to picasso to climp because otherwise their chances of being recruited by isis and the moslem

00:24:26.560 brotherhood is really really hot and then of course uh bill nye who is you have to take him

00:24:32.240 seriously because he wears both eyes plus he has the science guy in his title so he must be a serious

00:24:37.120 thinker explain to us that the bataklan attack in paris where nearly 200 people were mulled down like

00:24:44.480 little insignificant mosquitoes was not due because of them screaming allahu akbar and then saying a

00:24:50.080 whole bunch of other incantations from islam it's actually due to climate change and by the way

00:24:55.040 if any of you don't believe any of this you would read the parasitic one and see those references

00:24:59.840 so a human being to many of which many millions of people follow argued with great emboldened sense of

00:25:08.480 epistemological security that it was climate change that caused muhammad to do it that's what

00:25:14.320 the rest of the prime looks like here i've got uh because we're in britain i thought that i would bring

00:25:21.360 this example up i also did yes i guess i'm just going to read a few mains uh which you'll appreciate

00:25:27.360 because given the paravik my mother found you'll get that extra double row pronunciation you have

00:25:32.720 muhammad there is one haslam you got abdul rahman you've got nahman muhammad you've got wikas mahmoud

00:25:39.520 you've got muhammad ifrass muhammad azim manzoor hassan muhammad hakram so i put it out on twitter and i said i

00:25:48.800 don't i'm not really sophisticated enough to understand if there is some kind of unifying

00:25:52.880 theme across these funny doers and i got back as a serious answer by thousands of people

00:26:00.800 yes jew this proves that it is the jews who did it you know how it's the jews because who controls

00:26:08.320 britain's immigration policy it's the jews it turns out also that the jews control the immigration policy

00:26:14.160 of italy of spain of sweden and as i mentioned that yesterday's party i'm the king of the jews

00:26:19.840 and if i've never been invited to any of those meetings but this is what happens to a person it

00:26:24.880 might let me just briefly i'm a bit over time but i'll try to wrap it up suicidal empathy then

00:26:31.920 extends the story and let me explain the framework of suicidal empathy there are many psychiatric

00:26:39.040 disorders which are only psychiatric disorders because they become hyperactive or hypoactive

00:26:45.200 right so pseudobulbar affect is where you start laughing hysterically as you saw in the joker

00:26:51.840 well laughter actually has some evolutionary signatures but not in the way that occurs with

00:26:57.600 pseudobulbar affect right crying could be an adaptive mechanism but it's not good when crying comes

00:27:04.080 at inopportune times when you shouldn't be crying so it's not that empathy is a wrong thing right

00:27:10.400 empathy is actually a an evolutionary based virtue it is part of what oils our sociality so empathy is

00:27:18.480 great suicidal empathy is when it is targeting the wrong people at the wrong time at the wrong place

00:27:24.560 and so once the soup that once the empathy and how do you miss buyers you end up with a slew of

00:27:30.400 domestic and foreign policies that are exactly what we're seeing in the west so fasten your seat belt

00:27:36.480 for the next book so i'll just very quickly i had a whole bunch of other slides i'll end it with the

00:27:42.080 two final slides so how to save our universities and i'm going to specifically focus on these two

00:27:47.280 slides because we're at an academic conference number one pursue knowledge unencumbered by ideological

00:27:53.440 activism no knowledge is forbidden if it is honestly pursued using the scientific method freedom of

00:28:00.000 speech freedom of inquiry and the pursuit of truth are deontological principles don't adhere to a

00:28:05.200 consequentialist ethics when it comes to these kinds of principles no more identity politics and

00:28:10.240 all that bullshit no more coddling of the culture of offense and the ethos of perpetual victimhood

00:28:16.160 a just society is rooted in the ethos of ameritocracy uh i see steven vicker here and i know that

00:28:23.040 people wilson was at his university yeah steven uh you know wilson famously said he recently

00:28:28.640 passed away he's a social hand expert uh where social ads are communistic when he was asked professor

00:28:34.880 wilson what are your comments or what are your views on socialism slash communism he said great idea

00:28:40.880 wrong species right we saw the full genetic history of a species matters it makes sense for us to be

00:28:46.480 communistic if we're social ads not as much if we are human beings uh promote an ethos of intellectual

00:28:52.880 political diversity of course you all know this already all ideas beliefs and ideologies are open

00:28:59.280 to ridicule and criticism one of the things that i do in my work let me just skip here

00:29:04.560 that i want to read you this quote and then i'll wrap up with the things that i'll be done how much

00:29:09.520 truth is contained if something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and

00:29:13.680 then watching to see how much joking around it it can take for truth is a matter that can stand mockery that

00:29:19.840 is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it whatever cannot stand satire is false any of you

00:29:26.160 who follow me know that i am a a very uh ardent user of ridiculous sarcasm mockery not because i can't

00:29:34.800 put on a professorial hat but because sarcasm is actually terribly affected in getting the point

00:29:41.520 crossed especially when you're dealing with ludicrous ideas so let me wrap up with the list of things to

00:29:47.120 save the west and i'll see the floor number eight promoted ethos of interdisciplinarity consilience

00:29:53.520 and methodological pluralism number nine which is really important because most academics are part

00:30:00.320 of the new species that i have uh discovered they're called the invertebrate castrati they have neither

00:30:06.880 nor testicles and that is absolutely true okay uh so encourage bold thinking academia should be about

00:30:13.920 the forming of intellectual navy seals and not being counters there there is no group that is more

00:30:19.200 cowardly than academics i guarantee you i promise you despite the fact that institutionally they should

00:30:25.680 be the most courageous because technically we have this thing called fenure it doesn't stop the fact that

00:30:30.240 if i go boo they all run away number 10 strike the right balance between specialization and generalization

00:30:37.040 number 11 remove the stifling stifling bureaucracies in academia so for example now if i want to run a study

00:30:43.920 i'm way more afraid of going through the institutional review board than actually doing the study because

00:30:49.680 it had heretic me 474 years to go through all of the degenerate bullshit that they put in group and then

00:30:56.400 finally science reason logic and a commitment to evidence-based thinking trump ideology hurt feelings

00:31:02.800 fascial anti-science and for intellectual gibberish thank you very much

00:31:12.400 so we go to our questions and discussion we're going to make rewrote our second speaker

00:31:19.520 the second speaker is going to speak on wapeness is a smoke screen for class as the mini

00:31:32.240 video batches most uh known for her two books both of which i'm ready to say red uh second class how

00:31:39.760 elites portrayed america's working men and women which uh has been everywhere recently and i'm i was

00:31:46.800 pleased to join back during the discussion about that recently in the us and bad news how woke media

00:31:53.280 is undermining democracy how the media class uh has basically lost the plot actually the forest u.s

00:31:59.760 my first book is my better book not least because zap bolberg and massard algarbi are quoted at

00:32:12.400 length and they're the just parts of it and makes us far better than my second book but my second book

00:32:17.440 is a more important one because it's about the american working class who is the american working

00:32:21.920 class and we still have access to the american dream um which is the question you should be asking um

00:32:29.920 hence the title my talk that wokeness is a smoke screen for class um i've only been here for about

00:32:35.920 24 hours but um everyone talks to me about these rape gangs um i obviously found out about them actually

00:32:43.840 because elon musk tweeted about them um i'm very focused on my own country i'm a huge patriot and really

00:32:50.960 only care about america but some of them shouldn't admit uh so he tweeted about them and so suddenly

00:32:56.560 everybody in my country was talking about these grooming gang gangs um and lost in the conversation

00:33:01.840 was the fact that he only tweeted about them to distract from the fact that he had majorly pissed off

00:33:07.120 the maca base that he had now joined by saying that we should be importing um exponentially more h1b

00:33:14.720 visa holders which make the lightning very angry because the old point of the magra movement

00:33:20.880 is seeking working class people a shot at the american jury which of course is you know

00:33:26.400 completely contradictory to bringing in lots of people to work in these white-collar jobs

00:33:31.440 from other countries who are going to do them for much less um and i think that's kind of like a

00:33:35.760 nice um metonymy for how i see the whole anti-walt movement which is that it's a little bit of

00:33:41.520 abstraction from a much more important economic question you know i usually say something that i hope

00:33:47.600 doesn't offend you i usually say something like it would have been fine if wokeness had just sort of

00:33:51.920 sprayed in academia you know um you guys probably don't think that's fine but it would have been

00:33:56.800 sort of fine and in a much more general sense it wouldn't have exploded and the reason that it

00:34:01.760 exploded out of university unlike a lot of the other crazy idea that you know cooked up over you know

00:34:07.840 the last centuries is because it was very much in the economic interests of the elites

00:34:14.240 to divert attention from the real divide which is the class divide and talk about these racial or

00:34:19.360 gender categories the thing that i'm going to say here that's probably less popular is that the

00:34:23.840 anti-walt movement is doing a very similar thing it's very much in the interests of some elites to be

00:34:29.520 woe and it's very much in the interest of other elites to be anti-woe because of course it allows them

00:34:34.880 to be the true nature of everything um and i think that that mindset is equally on both sides of it um

00:34:45.920 so we had this great plot last night um i gotta tell you there's i didn't realize there was something

00:34:50.720 better than being applauded by a root full of people and it's actually being booed by a root full of

00:34:55.040 people after you tell them that you can't just denaturalize citizens because they happen to be muslims

00:35:02.160 and and this is something i mean the shock on my face um a young orthodox jewish boy i'm an orthodox

00:35:10.320 jew a young orthodox jewish boy stood up and said no we are guests in this country in a pristine british

00:35:15.840 accent and i'm telling you this because i will be haunted by that for a very long time it's horrifying

00:35:22.000 the idea that the citizens of your country are somehow guests because of their faith my country was

00:35:28.880 founded on the opposite of that and so if that's the end game of the anti-woe stuff i will be your

00:35:34.800 enemies um all right um why why is woke peace a smokescreen for class um it's related to this

00:35:42.880 question of why woke peace is dying in a very big way in america because we are in the midst of a

00:35:48.240 populist revolt against the elites very much because of donald trump who represented

00:35:55.600 uh the mavo movement which is itself a massive multi-racial populist working class agenda and

00:36:02.080 here i divert from eric to me class is very much about education not about income what we've seen

00:36:08.400 in the united states over the last 50 years is a political realignment of around class to where it

00:36:14.880 used to be that the republicans were sort of the party of wealthy and triple down economics and all this

00:36:19.840 stuff and the democrats represented labor and now the working class votes for mad are for trump it's

00:36:25.200 not really republicans i could talk about that that's interesting um and meanwhile the rich now are

00:36:29.680 mostly democrats most rich people are part of democrats and this realignment means that the

00:36:35.600 democratic party is now an uneasy coalition between very poor people who rely on government benefits

00:36:41.840 and very wealthy educated people and it is the working class where the hardest working americans who

00:36:46.800 have been cut out of the prosperity um what happened over the last 50 years was um the democrats built an

00:36:54.320 economy that was an upward transfer of wealth from labor into the pockets of the educated so in the

00:37:01.440 70s which was the sort of high watermark for a working class purchasing power the largest share of the

00:37:06.880 wealth in my country was in the middle class people who worked in factories were middle class at a middle

00:37:11.840 class standard of living and that's not separable from the fact that 25 of our economy the largest

00:37:17.760 share was in manufacturing which is of course why tariffs are so important because they're bringing

00:37:22.320 back that manufacturing today the largest share of our economy 20 is financed in real estate meaning

00:37:28.880 it's in the hands of the asset rich and top 10 which is not the billionaires it's the people

00:37:36.320 hash room control over 60 percent of the gdp and the way that they did that was through successive

00:37:44.240 policy decisions that took money from their working class neighbors and put it in their own pockets for

00:37:50.240 example having a very lax immigration agenda so for elites immigration is about culture for working

00:37:57.520 class people it's about economics it's about having a tight labor market if you control separation or a very

00:38:04.960 um wise labor market where you can ask for fewer wages and in fact those wages that you can no

00:38:10.800 longer command because your elite neighbor who's a doctor who's married to a professor who needs

00:38:16.240 child care so that they can both work um they can now pay somebody from haiti and they don't have

00:38:21.200 to give them health care and they don't have to pay them a living wage so immigration is a really big

00:38:25.120 part of how the elites basically it means it's actual wage theft it is a plundering of people who work

00:38:33.440 much harder than them and they accepted them to accept it and then they'll show you these slides

00:38:38.960 sorry i'm on the slide but they'll show you these slides that show that you know homes today have

00:38:43.920 you know much more homes have air conditioning than they did in the 70s like the expectation of what

00:38:49.840 their neighbors should suffice with and be satisfied with compared to how they are living is godless

00:38:56.640 and it's why people were so angry it's where the populist revolt came from very very bloodless i mean it's a

00:39:03.280 very chill they just voted for the person that the elites hate more than anybody else on the planet

00:39:09.040 and the reason they hate him is because he was trying to do right by the electorate um so immigration

00:39:15.120 um free trade is another one of the ways in which the elites um under the working class in the middle

00:39:21.600 class they defunded vocational training so it used to be that a child an amerify young man who maybe has

00:39:27.840 the uh a character traits that god was talking about not great at sitting you know for long periods of

00:39:34.000 time not super great at you know following instructions from people or um you know being

00:39:40.000 submissive to authority had a great avenue into the middle class because in their high school they would

00:39:45.040 be taught how to weld um and and that would be funded by democrats because they decided everyone

00:39:50.560 should go to college of course college being the number one predictor for whether you're a democrat

00:39:54.800 right um so we basically had this economy that was in the by the same people who were claiming to be

00:40:03.840 on the side of the little guy and on the side of labor and on the side of the working class were

00:40:09.440 actually um navigating politically and economically in this way that was stealing from their neighbors who

00:40:19.760 they were pretending to represent and to stand for and on the other side you had the gop before trump

00:40:26.560 which was very much geared towards the rich the triple down economics the country clubs is very pro

00:40:32.320 corporation um and i think when you look at why the woke ideology became so popular not just in the academy

00:40:44.480 but as zach has showed so well filtered through the media and then became utterly mainstream among the

00:40:52.400 college educated in america the 30 percent of americans who have that degree the 20 who work in the

00:40:58.160 knowledge industry and the 10 who are in the top 10 in the elites the reason it took hold was because

00:41:04.160 it was a perfect alibi for the sin that they were committing against their neighbors it was a justification

00:41:12.400 for the shipping of men's jobs men's jobs in manufacturing overseas to china to build up china's

00:41:19.040 middle class so that when those men objected they said oh um that's your toxic masculinity speaking

00:41:26.880 that you think you should have the right to use your physical body to feed your family and to protect

00:41:31.840 your wife and your children and the racial moral panic happened in a very similar way when working

00:41:37.680 class people said wait a minute why are we we worked so hard and you sold our future our children's

00:41:42.960 future out to our greatest adversaries they said oh well you're racists and and when they said well

00:41:49.120 you opened the border and now suddenly i was a janitor used to be able to i used to own a home my kids

00:41:55.280 now have no hope of ever achieving what i did um because there's now millions more people working in five

00:42:01.840 very specific industries by the way the vast majority of the people working those industries are still

00:42:06.160 americans there are no jobs that americans don't want to do when they objecting to that they said

00:42:11.920 how dare you you are racist for wanting to have a national border we have so much we're the richest

00:42:18.080 country on the planet how dare you deprive the global indigent of a shot at the american dream

00:42:26.560 these unbelievably wealthy people who were controlling sixty percent of the gbp said to

00:42:31.600 people whose children were dying of fentanyl overdoses because they have no picture in this

00:42:35.760 country so of course the you see how the the language of wokeness which basically says there's

00:42:42.480 no right versus wrong there's no nation state there's no concept of citizenship or what we owe each

00:42:48.640 other or noblesse oblige maybe i owe something to this country that means so wealthy wokeness is

00:42:54.560 basically saying we're row away the distinction between right versus wrong and instead we're going to

00:42:59.520 have a distinction between powerful versus powerless oh how do you know who has power in which situation

00:43:04.320 oh we'll use skin color it's so easy it's so obvious you're doing gender it's so obvious right

00:43:09.200 and then and then instead using that as a shorthand for virtue um they don't mean it what they meant

00:43:16.000 for to do was on to hide their crimes against their neighbors um i think a lot of the data backs this up i i

00:43:23.680 for my second second book second class i traveled around the country i interviewed hundreds of working

00:43:28.640 class people from all political backgrounds they had a very unified way of seeing the world whether

00:43:33.440 they voted republican democrat they were actually quite unified and and very emotionally unified very

00:43:38.800 emotionally attached to this country the polarization that we see is like an utterly elite phenomenon

00:43:43.920 there's no issue that they really disagreed on they were the conservatives were very pro-gay

00:43:49.200 and the and the democrats were very very anti-trans like that kind of a thing they all thought there

00:43:55.440 was tons of abuse and welfare and did not want more welfare but they wanted to tax the rich including

00:44:00.400 the republicans the conservatives so the working class in america is very very united around a whole

00:44:05.280 bunch of issues they are economically copulist they're anti-war and they're socially moderate

00:44:10.000 um which of course is the agenda that that got dumb trump into the white house um and and the opposition

00:44:15.600 to him is so much about that if you think back to 2018 um the bottom 25 percent of wage earners i'm not

00:44:24.240 talking about the poor again i'm talking about the working class people who work bottom 25 of wage

00:44:29.600 earners saw four percent wage increase and the top 25 only saw a 2.5 wage increase which means that trump

00:44:36.960 was the first president to shrink the income gap in about 60 years and this is the kind of thing that

00:44:44.000 nobody talked about it because of course republicans didn't care and democrats don't want to give him

00:44:48.160 any credit for it but the policies here that he is enacting in the name of working class people are

00:44:53.200 going to continue to unify working class people and bring them together but also they are weakening

00:44:58.560 the elites and you're seeing this thing is more on harvard to where you know aside from just like

00:45:04.960 the amazing service to the united states of exposing the fact that two billion dollars in your taxpayer dollars

00:45:11.600 are going to educate xi jinpi's daughter and other you know future abstract jokes of the chinese

00:45:16.960 communist party um it the the the that is class warfare on behalf of a forgotten elected ignored

00:45:24.720 working class who deserved a lot better um so i think that a lot of the in in america it feels to me

00:45:31.120 like a lot of the wokeness is sort of fading because the economic prospects of the working

00:45:37.040 class are improving and it was the the economic prospects of the working class that wokeness

00:45:42.560 uh became popularized in order to conceal um thank you very much i'm sorry if i affect you

00:45:53.280 let's open up for some questions and discussion if we could turn the lights back on as well

00:45:58.320 and just look at one of the organizers i'm afraid my eyesight is terrible so i'm just going to point

00:46:02.960 at people check from the blazer shop over there okay yeah so i i i have a question uh the last speaker

00:46:10.080 there i'm actually here to set it to this side one than you may likely possibly because in this country

00:46:18.080 i think class is a and they're right you know i grew up in i grew up beside wales so classes never

00:46:24.240 have you know on other places i hate it hate the backdrop but um one of one of the i i've

00:46:32.720 happened to agree that i think that a lot of work was a was a smokescreen um that in a way was it was

00:46:40.720 a method of containing a genuine authentic left that was arising there in the in the late 2000s

00:46:48.880 but then funnily enough when you get capitalism they've got this way of containing things and you

00:46:56.480 had this whole thing of work capitalism or corporate wokeness uh which then somehow can date contain all

00:47:04.000 of any of the any of the kind of dissident energy that wokeness mayor may have had my question for

00:47:10.800 you is uh you know you're kind of uh painting mega as this authentic working-class movement but i've

00:47:18.320 already started to see like i remember there was that big campaign against bud light and then bud like

00:47:24.080 really cynically they they started changing the messaging on the advertising and it's like

00:47:28.640 oh you know bud light we we support the veterans um so i'm just i'm just wondering what kind of uh

00:47:36.080 protections could be in place for mega as a phenomena being co-opted by capital c capital by the

00:47:43.520 corporations and essentially just becoming like another kind of fake thing like like when it was so

00:47:50.320 great we just take your question we'll take a bunch uh we just take one over here as well yeah

00:47:55.840 behind you yeah uh thank you um i think the two questions i have are directed striking the brief

00:48:04.560 yep two very brief questions started together yeah authoritarian i'm a bit of a ask question

00:48:13.120 authoritarian as well so it's a there's this word buzzing around i think kind of eric used it as

00:48:20.720 well it's called data and i'm very very suspicious of data but it wasn't that long ago when we were

00:48:28.160 locked up in our homes because the data told us we had to be locked up in our homes so i think it's a

00:48:34.800 real danger that in defending science and defending rational thought that we end up reinventing their

00:48:44.160 version of scientism and so less data please um the second very quick question is

00:48:55.280 saving the university uh why uh i think we should bury it myself because it seems to be the key driver

00:49:03.200 uh the key institutional mechanism by a lot of this erosion of western culture uh is occurring so

00:49:11.840 why why save the university okay great why save the university do we have a mic for the speakers

00:49:18.160 yeah uh why save the university why should we have faith in science is MAGA be co-opted

00:49:23.680 question i mean i can answer the why save the university the class stuff uh there are a lot of

00:49:38.080 things that are wrong with the university as i mentioned in my talk all of the parasitic ideas

00:49:43.520 originally extend from the university ecosystem there are also the measurable good that comes out of

00:49:49.840 universities right so if i were to take a percentage of all the professors and all of the students

00:49:56.320 who go about their business doing great stuff as a proportion of the people who are espousing and

00:50:01.520 promulgating and being parasitized by this nonsense the ratio is still very favorable so i don't think we

00:50:08.000 need to you know nuclear bomb these adversities we need to simply find a way to conoculate people against

00:50:15.280 some of these dreadful ideas now if these ideas do cause you know it in you know in ordinate the

00:50:22.640 mark of the average downstream right at times they also become prime ministers of countries justin

00:50:29.280 brutal who is both the exemplar of parasitic thinking and of suicide so i'm not uh minimizing the

00:50:37.840 extent of this person i use obviously i i cook the book but it would be silly to say let's just

00:50:43.520 newt the whole thing now by the way just as a final point there are also attempts to create new

00:50:49.680 institutions uh from the ground up uh and hoping to hopefully not make the same mistakes as the

00:50:55.920 existing universities but i think it would be maybe a bit harsh to say let's get rid of the whole intro

00:51:00.320 of us i'm with you i think they're worthless anything get rid of them

00:51:07.440 i i think even the sciences are so corrupted by the process of getting things published

00:51:12.480 like i i'm with you um on the mat i mean my god could you even imagine a corporate america

00:51:20.000 wanting to co-op the tariffs i would be dancing for joy like this is a real materialist agenda that's

00:51:26.400 putting running in the pockets of working class people everyone is welcome if walmart instead of

00:51:31.600 being like we're going to raise taxes said you know what we're going to eat this as an act of

00:51:35.440 patriotism because we are asking working class people to eat the cost so that their children will have a

00:51:40.880 better life by the way something they're happy to do because as one truck driver explained to me last

00:51:45.760 week you know sacrificing for my kids is what it means to be working class you know and and we're

00:51:52.080 not going to ask the elites to do the same thing we're not going to ask corporate america to do the

00:51:55.200 same thing there have been um i think it was gm said you know yeah we're going to take down our

00:52:00.240 projected profits from 15 billion to 10 billion that's tariffs for you baby that's great that's that's

00:52:06.560 you know if they want to they want to metabolize the maga agenda i could not be happier if private

00:52:12.080 the organizations want to donate to policing the poor it could be great there's there's very little

00:52:16.640 that can be actually co-opted because it's not a symbolic movement it's just good obvious policy

00:52:23.440 that was democratic policy to put money in the pockets of working-class people for a hundred years

00:52:28.560 you know having a strong button the illegal border crossings are down to three a day like it's

00:52:34.720 i don't see how you really co-opt that it's just good policy for a nation but um i take your point

00:52:41.040 okay let's get some questions we've got one up in the corner we've got two up in the corner

00:52:46.880 we're gonna make our way around the hallway let's keep the questions brief yeah

00:52:52.560 and they are definitely very much really entertaining as well as you boy the short question is in this

00:52:59.200 country our politicians despise the working class and the door work universities your suggestions

00:53:10.320 so in my country that was true until a certain person came along who had just a very obvious love

00:53:17.920 of the people um you have to shame them about it you have it has to be relentless shame about having

00:53:25.600 contempt for people who work so much harder than us and have so much less to show for it just

00:53:32.400 relentless shame and stop asking about the woke stuff like it you know what are you going to do

00:53:38.560 to make housing more affordable what are you going to do to protect the product of the labor of the

00:53:43.840 working man and woman i think it's it's just like relentless shaming them out of their contempt there was a

00:53:49.760 question just in front over here and then we're going to come down the pillow uh to synthesize

00:53:56.960 something wait a little isn't the progressive ideology really reacting to classes of socialism on

00:54:01.600 the left the left reinvention itself by creating endless victim groups the neurodiverse uh ethnic

00:54:06.880 minorities women etc this also then generates group beat of the bureaucratic class with forced hr codes

00:54:12.400 who have to be graduates that creates the new left uh 21st century and the new right is populous

00:54:18.560 quite fighting against it the problem seems to be that there is a different split between the

00:54:24.800 within the new right between people think the state should be used to support the working class and

00:54:29.360 create a new group that the state back and there's some more classical liberal people who beat that

00:54:33.680 the problem is that the government has got fewer bigger because i thought lots of renowns was great

00:54:38.080 but isn't the problem the state's bigger than its regulatory share of state spending so it's weird

00:54:43.040 to then say the problem is that our state is not big enough when it's never been larger i'll answer

00:54:47.840 very briefly uh donald trump has done something i've never seen done before which is he's combined

00:54:52.160 very pro-worker things like closing the border wall street hates that and tariffs wall street hates

00:54:57.520 that in fact wall street donated more to the democrat candidate than to donald trump for three

00:55:01.520 terms and three cycles in a row so the rich have solidly picked the democrats donald trump has come

00:55:06.960 combined just specifically and i don't know if this would work for the uk contacts unfortunately i'm

00:55:12.480 very boldly ignorant so then he thinks i'm my own country but um the he combined that with very pro

00:55:17.680 business stuff like massive massive deregulation cheap energy and uh slashing the corporate tax rate

00:55:24.960 they're now negotiating whether you know raising taxes on the wealthy should be part of the pro worker

00:55:29.920 stuff or they should slap taxes on the wealthy put that in the pro business side i think they should

00:55:33.840 put in the labor side but so he's combined massive deregulation and pro business goodies with the more pro

00:55:41.360 labor stuff he's not actually trying to they're not doing a good enough job of of you know controlling

00:55:45.760 the deficit but they're also not trying to give the job of increasing the fortunes of the working

00:55:53.360 class to the government in fact he's trying to make industry pay for it with the tariffs he just went on

00:55:59.600 this trick he got six trillion dollars committed to man building manufacturing back in the united states

00:56:05.200 so he's trying this thing out of can we get private industry to pay for the things that they made go

00:56:13.120 basically awry in our economy i don't know if it'll work but i think that that dichotomy like in america

00:56:19.520 the sort of classical liberal thing is very much just like a some play thing of bill heats it does not

00:56:24.720 have any just like libertarianism it does not have a foothold there's no constituency that it represents

00:56:30.640 just before we come to helen i was going to come in on the mouse i mean i i was just going to say

00:56:36.240 that a lot of the questions uh allude to sort of a top-down process whereby you know there are evil

00:56:44.720 puppeteers of one political persuasion or another that are doing this stuff uh in order to for whatever

00:56:51.440 purpose does it have and maybe there is a bit of truth to that but i believe i think i believe it

00:56:59.600 it's quite clear that a lot of these parasitic ideas and suicidal empathy stem from a frailty of

00:57:07.360 the architecture of the human mind and frailty in our emotional system to be hijacked and so many of

00:57:14.960 these parasitic ideas did not start off you know with any uh specific political downstream effect whether

00:57:23.680 it be class-based or so you know franz boas and his friends uh were the originators of cultural

00:57:31.760 relativism and the reason why they thought that was a good idea is because if you would argue that

00:57:37.840 biology is relevant in explaining human behavior all sorts of political cretins might misuse it so now

00:57:44.720 let's create new edifices of knowledge in anthropology in economics in sociology uh where biology ceases to

00:57:52.960 matter so that so the origins of cultural relativism which now finds itself in many of our policy

00:58:00.480 decisions had nothing to do with sort of a top-down willful manipulation of the people so i think it

00:58:07.840 would be incorrect to presume that all of this bad thinking stems from nefarious folks in the background

00:58:14.880 that are doing their alterings helen i think then about one thing that that i would like to talk

00:58:23.040 about is how to really kind of solidify or concretize the language that's going on here so i see a lot of

00:58:32.640 things that will shift here when we're talking for example about a calcitic mind virus how are we going to

00:58:40.000 be careful that this does not fly into the whole sort of like fragility they were as i'm i'm when it

00:58:46.480 used to be so but this is my whitelist speaking i need to dismantle my whitelist decolonize my thinking

00:58:52.960 people for detoxifying their masculinity how can we be certainly written back well you would think like

00:58:58.000 that because you've been parasitized parasitized by a a woke mind bar as i have been apparently and i'm

00:59:03.760 accused of this more often now and also did the concept of elites and how can we make sure that this

00:59:10.800 doesn't go the same way as a privilege whereas if you are disagreeing with me there will be grounds

00:59:17.520 on which you can found to be privileged and that to explain it whereas if you if you're agreeing with

00:59:23.040 me then then you're not getting in that because when i'm hearing that for example the richest man in the world

00:59:29.440 runs the largest social media platform and the president of the united states are not idiots i i

00:59:35.280 feel we're kind of losing all um all handwritten come and i'm not just cool so a great question if

00:59:42.640 i can just abuse my position gap what's the intersection between the parasitic mind and social

00:59:49.360 status because in britain when i think about what you you've been saying like pretty much of it if i

00:59:55.360 look at say a political party like the conservative party before a party much of their refusal to take

01:00:01.280 on weakness or radical coercivism i would argue has been rooted more in their desire to as they see it

01:00:07.600 uphold their social status among certain elite communities to not get dragged into the low status

01:00:13.440 culture wars rather than perhaps their thinking being hijacked by a particular mindset rob henderson

01:00:22.080 among others have made this point about social status so we can add that in too uh and and how

01:00:27.520 we define the elites uh as well about you sort of like ask the first question figure uh i mean i think

01:00:33.120 there is a very tight definition of what constitutes a person an idea uh so it's not jack that he died

01:00:39.040 could be whatever you want it to be uh but that said so to your point about incorporating political

01:00:44.720 elements um i never argue although i i don't mean to abide that we've insinuated this that it's only people on

01:00:51.680 the left that could be parasitized by specific satellite meters it turns out that the parasitic ideas

01:00:56.720 that i talk about in the book it's all stem from the left because they all stem from academia and most

01:01:02.560 academics happen to be on the left but people on the right could also be fully parasitized so let me

01:01:08.400 give you an example from my own work evolution is much more likely to be rejected by people on the right

01:01:16.240 for whatever reasons that they hold if it wears my guy if darwin's right and so on evolutionary psychology

01:01:24.720 which is the application of evolution to the study of the human mind is much more likely to be rejected

01:01:30.080 by people on the left so again many of the discussions here and i'm not exactly sure why are

01:01:35.440 always revolving around a political party and class warfare and so on i'm talking about an endemic

01:01:42.400 feature and frailty in the architecture of the human mind that makes it role to to be parasitized by

01:01:50.880 alluring ideas that are fully decoupled from reality and it's not difficult to demonstrate what

01:01:57.360 constitutes a parasitic idea when six foot four john with a nine inch penis becomes elating tomorrow when

01:02:04.880 he's called linda that's a parasitic idea it doesn't take much to understand what is the semantic contours of

01:02:11.360 that that i look as a person who calls myself a maga lefty i have the distinct pleasure of rejecting both

01:02:20.880 evolution and evolutionary it's a possible drawing for the first human picture

01:02:28.960 has rejected us she wasted 31 years

01:02:34.800 so uh how to define elites in my book um second class i when i where i argue that the class divine of

01:02:40.560 america is the most salient feature um i i define working class as somebody who works full-time in

01:02:47.360 an industry that does not require skills you would have learned uh in in college and university and

01:02:53.360 who's been locked out of the top 20 this is a the of all sociological definitions the one that

01:02:59.920 correlated them the most strongly with the downward mobility i was trying to describe and also with how

01:03:05.200 people see themselves um in terms of the elites i mean i i like i i totally hear what you're saying but

01:03:11.600 if if people are in the top 10 i think we would all agree like they're and especially if that top 10

01:03:17.760 is controlling such a disproportionate share of the gdp at that point that and and that is correlated with

01:03:25.280 having one or two degrees we're talking about um a very specific coterie um that that's very i think

01:03:32.000 easy to measure of course you know elon musk the you know richest man on the planet on trump very very

01:03:37.360 wealthy but what i what i found just this is obviously not scientific but from my qualitative

01:03:42.880 analysis of interviewing people working class people very much don't see um billionaires as

01:03:48.640 anathema to their interests they often see them as jobs creators and admire them very much and want

01:03:53.520 to be like them so they don't see that as what they do see these kind of like um the people that

01:03:59.920 you know the wokes as very much anathema to their interests um as having controlled an unfair share

01:04:06.480 of the pie which i think the the research that just that pure economic raw research shows is very much

01:04:13.360 true and sees them as constantly looking down on them and sneering at them and while elites look at

01:04:19.920 trump and they see he doesn't really care about the working class working class people see him in his

01:04:25.200 tie putting on a mcdonald's apron and they feel like he respects what i do like it's that they see

01:04:32.320 him in a in a truck and they say i mean i'm just this is how it's red and i understand that so people

01:04:38.480 who are not in that it doesn't quite make sense people really struggle to understand that but i think

01:04:44.240 from a purely like the resentment of the top 10 percent has for the top one percent it far outstrives

01:04:51.040 the resentment that working class people seem to have at least in america for billions there's a

01:04:55.680 lot of healthy respect for capitalism okay the last questions at the top are the last things between

01:05:01.760 uh now and a coffee break so let's keep really efficient and the answers as well okay my question

01:05:07.760 for each of you is what's the right number so botcha what's the right number for integrates that a country

01:05:15.360 should allow here between zero and 100 and is there some rationalness uh based on some moral

01:05:21.120 principles uh that we could arrive at you get what's the right percentage of tax on your books

01:05:27.920 noticed you you complained on that's you putting me in a bad one but let me just say brother i feel your

01:05:34.800 pain i'll feel your pain in other words uh you know is there some progress we could make to make

01:05:41.040 irrational arguments about political questions like that or is it just whoever's in power gets to

01:05:47.840 make those things what's the right number uh it's less than 58 percent and actually 58 percent only

01:05:57.280 constitutes the two taxes of the federal and provincial provincial on the 42 percent that are allowed to

01:06:04.800 keep then they take 15 sales tax my spend and then property tax and then school tax and

01:06:10.880 so on so by the end of the year i'm left at roughly maybe 30 percent of my income 30 so if we put

01:06:18.480 that in terms of from january 1st how long do i worry for free for the government until i get my escape

01:06:25.680 velocity it's around september so from january to september i animusly and i become slightly free

01:06:34.240 starting in september so i don't know what the exact number is but it's a lot less than whatever it is now

01:06:39.440 that's why in the current folks who is out of empathy i have a whole section on parasitic taxation

01:06:44.800 i think that's why so many brits are moving to dubai

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Parasitic Ideas + Suicidal Empathy = Death of the West - Heterodox Conference (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_854)

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