The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - December 11, 2024


Prosecuting Heroes and Lionizing Assassins - Suicidal Empathy (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_765)

Topics
suicidal empathy
Hosted by
Gad Saad
Mentioned
Saad Daniel Penny Richard Ramirez Charles Manson Donald Trump Ted Bundy Gadzat Luigi
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Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

136.88

Word count

406

Sentence count

50

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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In this episode, Dr. Saad Gadzat and global ambassador at Northwood University, evolutionary behavioral scientist and best-selling author of The Parasitic Mind, Saad discusses the psychology behind why women are attracted to Daniel Penny.

Transcript

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00:00:00.120 Visiting professor and global ambassador at Northwood University, evolutionary behavioral scientist and best-selling author of The Parasitic Mind, Gadzat is here.
00:00:10.260 All right, Dr. Saad, let's start with the people who are attracted to this alleged murderer. What motivates that?
00:00:20.740 So I think it's a misfiring of the attraction to the bad boy archetype.
00:00:25.920 As you mentioned earlier, there are some women who will wait in line to get a shot at meeting Ted Bundy or Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker, or Charles Manson. 0.99
00:00:35.720 So it is evolutionarily appropriate for some women to be attracted to the bad boy type. 0.99
00:00:42.440 But in this case, it's an exaggeration of that attraction.
00:00:47.060 And so I think that's exactly what's happening here.
00:00:48.880 He is the damaged guy, which through my guiding love, I could reform him, which is basically the narrative of every romance novel that's ever been written.
00:00:58.800 Save the bad boy, right, and turn him into a good guy.
00:01:01.980 Only you can do it.
00:01:03.320 Tell me about the people that feel like this was some righteous act of vengeance against American capitalism.
00:01:11.240 Yeah, I mean, it's unbelievable that the left can lionize this guy while, as you said, prosecute Daniel Penny, right?
00:01:21.060 So you are prosecuting heroism.
00:01:23.900 You're pathologizing masculinity.
00:01:27.040 But you are lionizing vigilante justice.
00:01:30.900 A society that gets all of these factors confused is in a death spiral.
00:01:35.580 So thank God that Donald Trump won, because hopefully he could fix some of these problems.
00:01:40.260 So what sets that in motion, where you're trying to tear down masculinity and heroism, and you're trying to elevate vigilante justice?
00:01:49.660 I mean, in this case, the calculus of being attracted to Luigi and prosecuting Daniel Penny is exactly the idea behind my next book, which is suicidal empathy.
00:02:02.020 Empathy is a beautiful thing, and it makes evolutionary sense that we've evolved that emotion as a social species.
00:02:07.980 But when it misfires, when it is misguided, when you care more about Guatemalan illegal immigrants than American vets, when you care more about a vigilante killer than a marine hero, then maybe you need to take some classes with Professor Saad to set you straight.
00:02:25.480 Well, I'm titillated about this next book already.
00:02:28.340 So we'll have to have you back.
00:02:30.080 Dr. Saad, thanks as always.
00:02:31.940 Cheers.
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