The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - Suicidal Empathy Is Destroying America From Within (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_1020)

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00:01:00.460 All right, good morning, everyone, and welcome to a very, very special edition of the Dangerous

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00:01:21.420 share our content. We always appreciate that, but I don't want to waste any time. I want to get

00:01:26.460 dr sad in here right away what an honor what a privilege to have you on dr sad i can't tell you

00:01:32.020 what a fan i am we got your new book we're going to be talking about that you are absolutely at a

00:01:37.280 minimum the best looking voice in political and societal punditry so thank you for everything

00:01:43.020 that you do what an introduction and also your your clip my god it even makes me more desirous

00:01:51.120 to become american well i i'm you live here in the united states now right uh i mean right now

00:01:56.980 i am still in montreal because we're in the process of moving to to the united states but

00:02:01.440 very shortly i'll be joining your team i love it i love it we couldn't have a better american so

00:02:07.280 come on down here i can't wait to i don't know if you've you've picked out a spot but i'll tell

00:02:12.400 you if you're ever in the dc area i'd love to have you out here maybe we'll take you shooting

00:02:16.620 do something fun like that but uh we'd love to meet you in person i i'm looking at your uh that

00:02:22.480 gorgeous what is it a rifle is a sniper rifle what is that well we got all kinds of we got

00:02:28.420 all kinds of rifles sniper rifles hunting rifles you name it uh i'll show you how to use all of

00:02:33.920 them you just i'd love to just for you to know uh just for you to know this great story related

00:02:39.320 to guns when I first uh was being courted by uh Ole Miss uh you know to to eventually you know

00:02:46.760 accept the position down there uh the gentleman who was sort of the architect of originally

00:02:52.160 introducing me to the relevant Ole Miss people after I left from my original visit to Ole Miss

00:02:58.720 he sends me a clip he sends me a text where he is at a gun shop and he is demonstrating all the

00:03:07.220 different guns the pros and cons because he's going to gift me and my son our own shotguns

00:03:15.740 once we move to Ole Miss so I said you know what I think I want to move to Ole Miss if that's the

00:03:21.140 kind of guys there are there well you need to come down here to West Virginia it's beautiful

00:03:25.680 the gun laws are great they have constitutional carry you don't need any permission from the

00:03:30.380 government to do anything and you know you being in Montreal I think you're probably committing

00:03:33.760 like four felonies just being on a show where there's guns in the background so just talking

00:03:39.100 to you as a you clearly seem as a very toxic masculine male we don't we don't tolerate that 0.83

00:03:46.500 in Canada we want our men to be fully castrated you know I I had the uh pleasure to visit Quebec 0.90

00:03:53.760 last year and uh and I was actually going to a firearms manufacturer up there um and I will say

00:04:03.200 that there was a there was not a lot of toxic masculinity to say the least so you know i'm glad

00:04:10.000 you're coming down here i think you belong here you've always been uh had a place here in the

00:04:14.240 united states and we need more voices like yours we need to get jordan peterson down here as well

00:04:19.100 i don't know if he's still living in in canada or not no no he moved to arizona now so he's already

00:04:23.400 there yeah good good good um yeah so you know you have this new book out and i'll be honest with you

00:04:30.180 I got it about two weeks ago, and I plan to have this completely read through before this

00:04:34.560 interview, but some things happen.

00:04:36.020 I'm not all the way through there, but I have gone through this, and I've watched many of

00:04:40.600 your other interviews regarding suicidal empathy, and what a great topic, and what a great way

00:04:47.280 to describe what is happening not only here in the U.S., but I mean really globally, and

00:04:51.720 we definitely see it in Europe.

00:04:53.860 So talk a little bit about how you came up with this, and it is a tie-in from the parasitic 0.54

00:04:59.040 mind, folks.

00:04:59.580 if you haven't gotten both of these books, do yourself a favor, go to Amazon or wherever books

00:05:03.800 are sold and make sure you get one of these. What were the first things that kind of led you

00:05:10.500 down this route? Right. So I'm glad that you did the tie in with the parasitic mind because

00:05:16.180 really it is a one, two punchline. I first started noticing that, you know, very intelligent people

00:05:24.780 could believe truly hallucinatory things in my academic career because when I started when I

00:05:31.940 finished my PhD and I got my first professorship my goal was to incorporate evolutionary psychology

00:05:39.920 and evolutionary biology and studying human behavior in general and consumer behavior and

00:05:45.980 economic behavior in particular meaning that you can't fully understand why consumers behave the

00:05:53.120 way that they do if you don't ever invoke their biological heritage. How do our hormones affect

00:05:59.140 what types of food we're interested in eating? How does a woman's menstrual cycle affect the 0.98

00:06:05.780 way that she will beautify herself across the menstrual cycle? And so you can't really study

00:06:11.020 any species without invoking their unique biological heritage. But then I quickly realized

00:06:17.300 that within the social sciences, and I was housed in a business school, what made all those people

00:06:24.780 clearly walk, lock and step with each other is that they rejected the idea that biology matters

00:06:31.680 to human beings. Biology matters to every single other species except one, which somehow operates

00:06:38.400 outside of the biological realm. Or if they're going to be charitable, they can accept that

00:06:43.980 biology matters, but as long as it stops at the neck, meaning that we can use evolution to explain

00:06:50.620 why we have opposable thumbs. That's okay. But surely, Professor Saad, you're not saying that

00:06:55.680 the mind is due to evolution. That just seems like it's Nazi talk. And so that's when I first 0.79

00:07:03.580 sort of said, hmm, that seems strange. How could these people with all of these fancy titles before

00:07:08.860 and after their name, reject that human beings are a sexually dimorphic, sexually reproducing

00:07:15.460 species, which inherently means that there are evolutionary-based sex differences between men

00:07:21.540 and women. And so that was my first sort of epiphany. Okay, Houston, we have a problem. And

00:07:28.600 so then I've been a professor now for 32 years. And so I was swimming in the ecosystem of all of

00:07:35.740 these incredibly idiotic ideas that the rest of the world eventually found out about because 0.99

00:07:42.080 those bad ideas escaped from the lab and became our prime ministers and our journalists and our 1.00

00:07:48.320 filmmakers and our culture shapers and so on. But I was seeing it firsthand. I would receive grants

00:07:54.820 to evaluate that dealt with queer mathematics and queer architecture. What the hell is queer 1.00

00:08:01.380 mathematics mathematics is a closed axiomatic system that exists independently of whether 0.98

00:08:08.040 you're transgender or non-binary or gender fluid but anyways so that's when i first started seeing 0.61

00:08:14.580 this what a bigot you are i am a bigot uh which then led me to write the parasitic mind now let 0.92

00:08:23.060 me explain the one-two punch of the two books for human beings are both a thinking and a feeling 0.94

00:08:28.420 animal. So this idea that reason is more important than emotions is a false dichotomy. There are many

00:08:35.880 cases where my emotional system is invoked and it makes perfect evolutionary sense for that to

00:08:42.600 happen. If I'm doing a shortcut through an alley because it's going to shave off 15 minutes of my

00:08:48.840 walk to get home and I notice a bunch of young men that are loitering around, I will get an

00:08:53.920 autonomic affective response. My blood pressure will go up, my heart rate will go up, my breathing

00:09:00.100 will become shallower, because there is a fear inducing situation. Well, in that case, it made

00:09:05.620 perfect evolutionary sense for my affective system to be triggered. And in other cases, it should be

00:09:11.000 my cognitive system, my thought processes that should be triggered. If I'm trying to do well on

00:09:15.520 a calculus exam, it serves me no purpose to have my emotional system triggered. Okay, so that being

00:09:22.020 said, if I need to explain how human beings could be completely hijacked in their ability

00:09:29.780 to engage in critical thinking, I have to explain how your cognitive system is parasitized. That's

00:09:37.860 the parasitic mind. And then how your affective system is parasitized. That's suicidal empathy. 0.97

00:09:43.900 So that's the link. Yeah. So, you know, everything that I've glanced through the book and read

00:09:51.800 through i got about 30 pages or so into this and you're you're talking about a lot of things that

00:09:57.300 really come down to a lot of liberalism communism that's that's where this and i don't want to make

00:10:02.480 this political because it's not really but it is definitely some of the things that you're

00:10:06.700 discussing in this book are obviously adopted by a certain political uh sect of of what we have

00:10:14.480 here in both the united states and pretty much everywhere else and we see the detriment uh that

00:10:20.580 this is causing the damage that it's causing both. And right now, I can't think of a better example

00:10:25.520 of what's happening in Europe between we just had this report of, you know, these these rape games

00:10:31.180 that are, you know, politicians are doing nothing about and we're letting people even here in the

00:10:35.800 United States, we have, you know, these violent crimes. And then we have cashless bond that they're

00:10:43.260 just getting back out on the street and they're doing nothing about it. And it's because they are

00:10:47.340 so empathetic and sympathetic to the criminals to those that are victimizing others exactly right

00:10:55.100 so let me maybe this is the right moment to explain the difference between well-calibrated

00:11:01.180 empathy and suicidal empathy contrary to what many of my detractors have are saying all over

00:11:08.940 the internet and all of all kinds of articles i am not anti-empathy as a matter of fact empathy

00:11:15.820 is a perfectly laudable virtue by by the sheer fact that or the sheer recognition that we are

00:11:22.500 a social species so as a social species with a big prefrontal cortex it makes perfect evolutionary

00:11:28.440 sense for us to have evolved the capacity to be empathetic for you and i to have a meaningful

00:11:35.160 conversation i need to put myself in your mind you need to put yourself in mind that's called

00:11:39.620 cognitive or theory of mind so there is nothing wrong with well calibrated empathy we want our

00:11:45.940 physicians our therapists our veterinarians our spouses our best friends to be empathetic but

00:11:52.600 as i've i i repeatedly explained as aristotle explained to us several thousand years ago

00:11:59.500 in his nicomachean ethics when he talked about the golden mean too little of something is not good

00:12:05.360 too much of something is not good and let's apply it in the context of military which i believe is

00:12:11.280 your background he talked about if a soldier is completely lacking in courage he's a coward

00:12:17.320 that's not a good thing but if the soldier is so reckless in his you know over the top courage

00:12:23.660 that he suddenly is wiped out because he's engaging in senseless risk taking that's also

00:12:29.160 bad. There is some optimal temperance in the courage level that is optimal. That's also called

00:12:36.200 the inverted U-shape, meaning too little of something is not good, too much of something is

00:12:40.200 not good, and the optimal point of the curve is somewhere in the middle. And that mechanism

00:12:44.560 applies across countless settings, including empathy. If I have no empathy, that's a signature

00:12:51.300 of a psychopath. That's a bad thing. If I have too much empathy, if it hyperfires in the wrong

00:12:58.520 situations towards the wrong targets, I get the perfect cocktail for suicidal empathy.

00:13:05.660 Yeah. And again, we see the crime stats and just looking back, going all the way back,

00:13:11.340 really, I think a lot of this started in the 60s. Moving forward, we see a lot more of this

00:13:16.420 being introduced where we have convinced ourselves that there's been such a

00:13:21.720 a, uh, disparate application of justice that now we have to go the exact opposite way.

00:13:30.320 And for like, because people in the past have been treated wrongly, whether there's a skin

00:13:36.040 color, sexual orientation, religion, whatever else, this person here in front of me, I need

00:13:41.820 to remedy those past wrongs by allowing this person here in front of me to commit horrific

00:13:47.120 crimes or do other engage in other illegal activity without any consequences right and so

00:13:53.300 i'm going to address specifically the criminality example you gave and but then i'll give another

00:13:58.580 example from the university ecosystem i call these that kind of thinking blank slate felons

00:14:05.760 in suicidal empathy why do i do that because blank slate is a term that is used uh it's in in in lat

00:14:13.700 in latin you say tabula rasa empty slate it means that all human beings are born with empty slates

00:14:20.200 with with no biological imperatives and then it is only through the process of socialization

00:14:26.160 and the idiosyncrasies of their life trajectories that they end up where they end up which of course

00:14:31.780 is a completely false i mean the average three-day-old pigeon recognizes that this is false

00:14:36.880 but this is a parasitic ideas that i discuss in the parasitic mind it's called social constructivism

00:14:43.200 everything is a social construction to my earlier point nothing is biological now how do we apply 0.75

00:14:49.100 that to criminality if you internalize the following mindset which is that a black man 0.98

00:14:56.420 born in the united states is born in an irredeemably damaged soiled racist white supremacist society 0.98

00:15:05.340 he's already been existentially punished by the fact that he is born into such a terrible society

00:15:12.840 So then if the downstream effects of that terrible tragedy that he's born in the United States results in him committing felonies, surely you're not going to be a mean person and ascribe to him personal agency.

00:15:28.900 what you should be doing is giving him a second chance to build his life and by second chance

00:15:35.060 what i really mean is 197th chance because he's only committed 196 prior felonies or you know

00:15:44.160 interactions with the law shouldn't you be a kind person and give him another chance so

00:15:48.720 that's exactly how the parasitic idea of social constructivism results in the suicidally empathetic

00:15:56.960 position of soft on crime policies so that's one but now let me link what you just said

00:16:01.820 you know the idea of punishing or dealing with people today for sins that have happened in the

00:16:08.860 past that have nothing to do with the people today okay in academia there was a time a hundred years 1.00

00:16:15.260 ago where women were held back from entry into universities they weren't female physicians

00:16:24.200 they weren't female physicists and so on that's incontestable and it was true then we corrected

00:16:31.180 that so now let's look at data from the united states this is data probably maybe four or five

00:16:38.220 years ago and i only suspect that it's gotten worse so there's data from the u.s government

00:16:44.060 looking at across four educational attainment levels so an associate's degree so like half a

00:16:51.820 bachelor, a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, and a doctorate. So four levels of educational

00:16:58.940 attainment across five racial groups, black, white, Hispanic, whatever it is, indigenous,

00:17:05.940 whatever it is. So the matrix is basically a four by five matrix. And each of those 20 cells,

00:17:13.800 the government is going to calculate what is the ratio of men to women in that cell.

00:17:22.120 Meaning, if universities were a hotbed today of misogyny and patriarchy, we would expect each of 0.54

00:17:31.760 the 20 cells to have a different amount of men to women. Can I please ask you to guess what the data

00:17:41.220 shows of the 20 cells how many of the 20 cells do women outnumber men

00:17:47.300 10 i don't know 20 20 out of 20 cells so across every possible educational attainment

00:18:01.220 across every possible racial breakdown that the u.s government keeps women outnumber men 1.00

00:18:08.380 So 100 years ago, there was discrimination against women. We've so corrected for that problem

00:18:16.220 that we now have the opposite problem. But we certainly don't want to then correct

00:18:22.720 to a new reality by offering a new narrative. That's why it's important for me to receive

00:18:29.080 daily emails reminding me how to be a better ally to women in universities, even though my dean is 1.00

00:18:36.740 a woman. The vice provost is a woman. The chair of my department is a woman. The chair professors 1.00

00:18:42.780 in my department, this is my old university. I'm now living to Ole Miss. They're all women,

00:18:48.340 but I'm still lectured about how to be a better ally because we would never want facts to get

00:18:55.300 in the way of my preferred victimology narrative. Yeah, I mean, that's wild. And they're still

00:19:02.480 considered a, I don't know, protected class, a, you know, a minority, and we just got to pretend

00:19:09.060 that the numbers don't exist. And this goes back to what you're talking about. Like it's one thing

00:19:14.780 to, to have these discussions regarding abstracts, psychology, philosophy, but then when we start

00:19:23.880 getting into the hard sciences, now we're seeing that invade there. And one of the things that I

00:19:28.340 see on a regular basis is like people are no longer logical uh people are no longer like there

00:19:35.620 is no objective reality everything is relative and it started off with relative moralism and

00:19:41.760 now we have like just relative reality right like whatever i think is correct that's the way that

00:19:48.720 needs to be corrected it's clearly all of that is tied together talk to us a little bit about that

00:19:53.380 Yeah, so my truth is more important than the truth, right? So that's exactly relativism. This is why in the parasitic mind, I posited that the greatest, greatest in a devastating sense, the worst parasitic idea, the granddaddy of parasitic ideas is postmodernism, because it is exactly that framework that creates relativism across anything, right?

00:20:19.900 there are no objective truths other than the one objective truth that there are no objective truths

00:20:25.040 which already shows you how the whole edifice breaks down but now that applies everywhere

00:20:30.180 so for example in in the parasitic mind i talked about uh at one point going to visit a colleague

00:20:37.200 uh who was a professor then at carnegie mellon university and so he he was teaching a class or

00:20:45.600 something so i was on my own for a while i said oh let me go to the carnegie museum and so i headed

00:20:50.440 off to the carnegie museum and right there amongst other you know beautiful art was a blank canvas

00:20:57.540 as an art piece now of course i understood the nonsense that was promulgated there but because

00:21:04.100 i am who i am i demanded to see the curator of the museum because that pissed me off so then 0.94

00:21:10.420 they didn't send the curator they sent some other you know schmuck who said how can i help you sir 0.90

00:21:15.840 i said why did i pay money to come to see art and you put up this empty canvas oh but that that's 0.86

00:21:23.840 it's wonderful that you you asked this sir because that gives us an opportunity to have a discussion

00:21:29.880 because it's relative what you consider art by da vinci and by michael i may have a different

00:21:39.000 definition called an empty canvas or i can take as you probably know the the the scotch tape thing

00:21:44.500 and put the banana peel on it and that becomes a there's there was actually also an invisible

00:21:52.940 art exhibit this is not my satire you go to a place where you look at invisible art well that

00:22:02.760 perfectly makes sense if there is no such thing as reality let me give you another example music

00:22:08.900 is actually mathematical right we can study musicology by by actually mapping it onto

00:22:16.160 specific mathematical patterns well how about under relativistic music you could take a chimpanzee

00:22:24.780 make them do random noises and then people sit there at this beautiful symphony by the five 0.99

00:22:31.560 chimps but that is just equivalent to beethoven because who are you asshole to judge what is 0.99

00:22:38.120 really music. So that, because I can then do that, then there is no such thing as the scientific 0.96

00:22:44.680 method. There are just different ways of knowing. If our culture believes that the way that you

00:22:51.240 cure cancer is by doing tribal dances and invoking the gods of the clouds, then that's their way of 0.97

00:22:59.160 navigating science. Shut up, white racists, because we know that the scientific method is laced with 0.99

00:23:06.280 white supremacy so you're exactly right the relativistic framework is the catalyst that 1.00

00:23:14.500 then allows all the other nonsense to proliferate you know when we go back to even the 50s and 60s

00:23:21.100 we know that like especially the ussr was trying to seed uh communistic thoughts i mean they've

00:23:28.640 talked about this we have the naked communist that was read in front of congress and i don't

00:23:32.920 like 1963. We know what their goals are. And when you look at that, like this feels like that comes

00:23:40.860 from like, what is it? Is it the chicken and the egg? Are these ideas that are being presented

00:23:46.600 so that we will accept something that doesn't benefit us? And is it intentional? Is it a

00:23:53.700 psychological and cognitive manipulation? Or is this a product of something else?

00:24:00.360 yeah great question it's a bit of both so it's not as though all of these parasitic ideas that

00:24:07.680 eventually lead to suicidal empathy were all designed in a dr evil lab in davos right with 0.91

00:24:15.280 all of the world economic forum idiots right it's not that now some people will recognize that they 0.98

00:24:22.760 can use you know dysregulated empathy to you know to promote their political ideologies but really 0.97

00:24:30.420 it happened in a non-top-down design it was a bottom-up process and let me explain how it

00:24:37.200 happened each of these parasitic ideas were spawned originally on university campuses

00:24:44.860 by professors because as i like to always remind people it uniquely takes intellectuals to come up 0.99

00:24:52.740 with some of the most imbecilic ideas now why is that is it because they're dumb no it's because 0.99

00:24:58.220 their ideas are perfectly decoupled they're perfectly untethered to reality right so if I 1.00

00:25:07.420 am a professor with a wool jacket in the humanities I stand up on the pedestal and I say

00:25:13.720 men are women slavery is freedom well rather than being laughed out of the auditorium I get promoted

00:25:21.620 to be a tenured professor. Oh, wow. So the more nonsensical bullshit that I promulgate, 0.99

00:25:28.400 the higher in the academic ranking. There is no auto-corrective mechanism called reality. 0.99

00:25:35.300 Well, so all of those parasitic ideas originally began on university campuses for noble reasons.

00:25:43.220 But then in the service of that noble objective, if we have to rape and murder truth, so be it.

00:25:49.720 And let me give you a concrete example. Equity feminism is the idea that men and women should be treated equally under the law and there should be no institutional barriers for either sexes. Well, based on that tight definition of feminism, I think that both you and I would say, yeah, sign me up. I'm an equity feminist. 0.96

00:26:08.000 But radical feminists then came along and said, no, no, that's not enough. In order for us to squash the patriarchy, the misogyny, toxic masculinity, we now have to promulgate the idea that men and women are indistinguishable from each other. 0.82

00:26:26.400 And the fact that men might be better bench press more than women could not be due to evolved biological reasons.

00:26:35.840 It's social construction. It's because little Linda was taught to play with nurturance with with with dolls, 1.00

00:26:43.340 whereas Bubba, who ended up being the center for the University of Arkansas football team, was taught to play rough with guns and trucks. 0.89

00:26:51.960 That's what led to the downstream difference in in bench pressing. 1.00

00:26:55.500 So because the radical feminists thought that they were pursuing a higher noble goal, which is to create equality amongst the sexes, if we have to rape truth, so be it. 1.00

00:27:09.820 That's the same thing with transgender activism, right?

00:27:12.760 When I appeared in front of the Canadian Senate in 2017 and I warned and predicted every single thing that you subsequently saw, my point was, wait a second, I'm very socially liberal. 0.87

00:27:25.300 I don't give a damn what you do if you want to put a dress on or not.

00:27:29.720 But that doesn't mean that in granting you the right to be free of bigotry that I have 0.93

00:27:36.400 to murder truth in my classroom by saying, yeah, yeah, of course men too can menstruate.

00:27:42.200 Yes, yes, of course men too can bear children.

00:27:44.720 I can walk and chew gum at the same time.

00:27:47.320 I could want to aspire to have a society that is as free of bigotry as possible without

00:27:53.000 ever murdering truth whereas the very kind and empathetic professors don't believe that if we

00:27:59.800 have to murder truth for a nicer society so be it now are all these these ideas just simply

00:28:07.880 ideologically driven or is there a motive behind it and if so what do you think that motive is

00:28:15.420 well each of those parasitic ideas has a different motive so i just gave you the shift from equity 0.98

00:28:22.320 feminism to radical feminism stems from we really need to accelerate the squashing of the patriarchy

00:28:28.920 so we need to now promote this parasitic idea associated with radical feminism let's talk about

00:28:34.980 cultural relativism cultural relativism is the idea that it is wrong for you to ever judge the

00:28:43.680 practices and beliefs of another society so for example it this is this i discussed this in

00:28:50.520 social empathy when the american soldiers were seeing the practice of bachabazi in afghanistan

00:28:59.000 which is a beautiful and lovely and empathetic form of massive pedophilia of young boys because 0.95

00:29:07.080 as the beautiful afghani and islamic society explained to us women are for reproduction 1.00

00:29:13.240 little boys are for pleasure shut up racist don't you dare corporal with your bullshit american 1.00

00:29:21.400 values go impose your values on that other noble side they've got their own way of doing things 1.00

00:29:27.640 if they want to cut off the clitorises of five-year-old girls shut up racist now that 1.00

00:29:33.040 cultural relativistic parasitic idea comes actually from about a hundred years ago from a 0.99

00:29:41.680 professor of anthropology named Franz Boas. He thought, as an anthropologist, that it was very

00:29:49.780 dangerous to argue that there are human universals, that there is a biological heritage that ties all

00:29:57.160 people, because then there is all sorts of nefarious people who could misuse this knowledge.

00:30:02.860 For example, eugenicists argued, hey, there is a natural Darwinian struggle between people, and so

00:30:09.000 if we sterilize this group of people so that they don't reproduce, hey, that's okay. That's

00:30:13.920 Darwinian. Well, of course it isn't. It has nothing to do with Darwin, but they were misusing

00:30:18.580 evolutionary theory for their nefarious purposes. So this very kind and empathetic professor,

00:30:24.020 and I say this sarcastically, said, why don't we now create a new worldview where we argue that

00:30:30.900 there is no such thing as biology, there is no such thing as absolute moral truths, and that

00:30:37.720 hopefully that can protect the other, like the ones engaging in institutionalized pedophilia of

00:30:44.360 little boys. American soldiers, please do not intervene. It's much kinder to ensure that the

00:30:50.460 eight-year-old boys are sodomized by warlords. So to answer your question, it starts off from

00:30:59.140 an actual noble reflex, but it's extremely dangerous because truth should be a deontological

00:31:06.560 mechanism. And let me, forgive me for using these terms because it's important for your audience to

00:31:11.280 understand what they mean. In ethics, there are two different ethical systems. There's what's

00:31:17.020 called deontological ethics and consequentialist ethics. Deontological ethics are absolute

00:31:23.100 statements. So if I say it is never okay to lie, that would be a deontological statement. If I say

00:31:29.340 it is okay to lie to spare someone's feelings, for example, if my wife asks, do I look fat in those

00:31:35.740 jeans, then if I want to have a happy and long marriage, I will put on my consequentialist hat

00:31:41.780 and I say, no, no, you haven't looked, you've never looked more beautiful, even though I might

00:31:45.720 be fibbing a bit because I want to protect her feelings because I love her and I want to not

00:31:51.980 hurt her feelings. And for many things, we are all consequentialists. That's okay. But for certain

00:31:58.240 principles like freedom of inquiry, freedom of speech, presumption of innocence, those have to

00:32:06.260 be deontological. And it's quite fortuitous that given that tomorrow is the official 250-year

00:32:13.540 anniversary of the United States, what made the United States great, and hopefully will be for

00:32:19.920 another 250 years, is that there was a foundational bedrock of deontological principles that we all

00:32:28.040 agreed were divine and that we should never violate but then we allow the consequentialist

00:32:35.140 calculus to come into the shrine of deontological ethics and you end up with the nonsense that you

00:32:40.860 see today yeah you know one of the things i just can't get over when it comes to the left and this

00:32:47.960 ties right into that is you know this not accepting the difference between men and women

00:32:53.620 And, you know, we see this in our society where, again, we're trying to put women in

00:32:58.360 boys' sports and vice versa, and you see a lot more boys going into women's sports.

00:33:04.460 That seems to be the key. 1.00

00:33:05.700 And unfortunately, it does disenfranchise a lot of women.

00:33:09.480 The thing that really upsets me is the trying to devalue what women do and what women bring

00:33:17.580 to the table and not appreciating the differences between men and women.

00:33:21.180 There's things that women do that are, they're going to be able to do much better than I can

00:33:24.540 do the things that my wife, I, I love that she's a woman and that she can, and one of the best 0.92

00:33:29.180 things obviously is being able to have children and be able to raise children. Like, why don't

00:33:36.300 they accept the differences and just appreciate that? And then always trying to diminish. It's

00:33:43.180 like there's this, you know, there's this, uh, the society that's ran by men and that's evil. 0.99

00:33:51.300 But what we want is women to act exactly like men. And we completely dismissed the value that 0.80

00:33:57.680 women bring to the table and bring to our society, bring to our families. It's like, 1.00

00:34:02.220 that's not important at all. Right. Uh, look, and I'll answer it with an example that I know

00:34:08.600 you're obviously familiar with but that really speaks to the collective looms that the west

00:34:14.680 is is gripped under right now imagine that in the 21st century the latest addition to the supreme

00:34:24.740 court was asked in the confirmation hearing by a senator what is a woman and she was so lacking 0.99

00:34:36.560 in self-assuredness that rather than answering what kind of idiotic question is this of course 0.98

00:34:44.040 i know what it was now this is not just some abstract exercise you will be one of nine people 0.97

00:34:50.720 that will render judgments that will be very influential on the daily lives of these things

00:34:59.720 called what are these things called oh women right women but because you're not a biologist 1.00

00:35:07.320 as she explained to us she just i mean how the hell can i know what a woman is this is why by 0.83

00:35:12.480 the way and i'm gary this is really kataji brown the last i checked is a woman like i don't i don't

00:35:17.580 know that i don't know that because i'm i'm actually my phd is not in biology so i can't

00:35:21.700 make fair enough okay but this is why by the way when so now we're moving to mississippi and we

00:35:28.600 we have belgian shepherds before it was cool for every cool guy to own a malinois you can f off

00:35:35.220 with your joining the the train of malinois i've been a belgian guy for 40 years before all the

00:35:41.820 people were in diapers and didn't know what a belgian shepherd okay but that's a tangent so

00:35:45.540 we're getting our next round of belgian shepherds because our male and female unfortunately have

00:35:51.080 passed away. Now, given that I'm not a veterinarian, I don't know what constitutes a dog.

00:35:59.960 That's why I actually went to Libya and was actually going to pick a giraffe as my Belgian

00:36:08.000 shepherd. But it's only because a vet who is specializing in animals told me, no, no, no,

00:36:15.040 dr sad that's a giraffe it won't fit into your house that i then was channeled correctly to get

00:36:21.860 a belgian shepherd right so why am i saying this hyperbolic satire because that's literally what

00:36:28.440 it is until 15 minutes ago the 117 billion people that had existed on earth that by the way that's

00:36:36.640 a real estimate right there are real estimates for how many homo sapiens have existed since we

00:36:42.500 became a distinct species. The number is 117 billion. So until 15 minutes ago, all of our

00:36:50.560 ancestors, all 117 billion of them, seemed to have been able to really easily navigate through the

00:36:58.440 conundrum of identifying with whom they should mate. But 15 minutes ago, we lost that ability.

00:37:05.580 And that's why I always now make sure to always give my pronouns. Because if you look at me and

00:37:12.000 listen to me, you wouldn't otherwise know that I'm a man. Well, that speaks to your question.

00:37:19.060 That's what parasitic thinking is. Now, why do I use the term, and by the way, thank you so much

00:37:23.840 for granting me the forum to give these long-winded answers. Why do I use the parasitic

00:37:33.400 framework? So in nature, the field of parasitology is about studying host-parasite interactions,

00:37:40.760 and there are endless examples of that throughout all animal taxa. Here's an example. A tapeworm

00:37:48.040 parasitizes your intestinal tract, so that's a parasite, but a subfield of parasitology,

00:37:55.920 neuroparasitology, this is where the parasite needs to end up in the host's brain,

00:38:03.660 altering its circuitry to suit its interests. So the classic example that I give, but there are

00:38:10.220 many, many others, is the wood cricket. The wood cricket abhors water. It wants nothing to do with

00:38:16.560 water. But when it is parasitized by a hair worm, the hair worm needs for the wood cricket to jump 0.68

00:38:24.260 into water, commit suicide, hence suicidal empathy, because the hair worm can only complete its

00:38:32.400 reproductive cycle in water. So once that hapless, poor wood cricket has been parasitized by the

00:38:40.200 hairworm, it loses its most fundamental instinct of survival. And therefore, it happily jumps into

00:38:48.700 the water and it dies. Well, let's now apply it to human beings. Hashtag queers for Palestine,

00:38:56.460 and I am a queer woman. So I have a quote in the book where the street interviewer

00:39:04.700 goes up to a woman i think it was in manchester england at a free free palestine death to jews

00:39:10.780 the whole thing where he says to her oh you're you're all about free palestine yes yes do you

00:39:18.600 know what they do to gay people in palestine she goes i do know what they do i'm queer myself

00:39:23.740 and he says oh what what do you mean you're so how could you then be supporting the society 0.99

00:39:30.620 that would kill you. She goes, well, I don't care that they would kill me. I still think that they

00:39:36.340 are worthy of being defended. Well, that's a human wood cricket. That's a bipedal wood cricket.

00:39:43.640 She is saying that I'm happy to jump into the water and commit suicide for this higher noble 0.54

00:39:51.240 goal. So to wrap up this answer, when the people are doing what they're doing with all the trans 1.00

00:39:58.520 stuff, they're saying, I don't care that my 14-year-old daughter is going to be sharing the 0.98

00:40:08.260 showers with Bubba, who has a nine-inch penis, but yesterday called himself Linda, and therefore 0.99

00:40:16.560 he is just another little girl. So if my daughter has to go through this indignity of looking at 0.99

00:40:25.120 another girl who has a nine inch penis, that's okay because there is a higher goal, which is 0.99

00:40:30.900 I'm all for trans rights. Now, at the beginning of this, you talked about some of this stuff is 0.99

00:40:38.940 evolutionary and it's built into our brains. Well, you know, if we see that these things ultimately

00:40:45.080 lead to our demise, what is the evolutionary answer to that? Or I would even say being someone

00:40:52.160 that believes in creation uh you know even a god-given yes um you know uh like we're we're

00:40:59.560 trying to stay alive right so you know what is the answer like how does that play into it or is

00:41:04.600 that us completely overriding what is imprinted on our minds whether you believe it's from evolution

00:41:09.720 or god fantastic question and i appreciate your diplomatic uh way of framing that so that i could

00:41:16.720 answered in an evolutionary way or in a religious way well well done uh playing to your audience i

00:41:22.480 like it uh okay but here's although i'm not implying that all of your audience are creationists

00:41:27.580 i'm sure some i'm sure they're not exactly some are it's all good more importantly i know that i

00:41:32.800 know where you come from and how you're explaining this and i know that you you also kind of try to

00:41:37.300 explain things from a religious standpoint because they're no matter what you believe like like how

00:41:42.660 we ended up here there's some there's some there's some overlap there yeah very very well said okay

00:41:48.380 take for example for example healthy cells healthy cells have evolved to split divide

00:42:00.440 and multiply right you get an injury it's that mechanism that then allows the body to heal

00:42:07.560 itself. Cancer cells also divide and multiply. The difference between the two is that something

00:42:17.900 in an otherwise evolutionarily adaptive mechanism misfires in cancer. So if it is, for example,

00:42:30.360 you're smoking, there is DNA damage that's done to your lung cells that then causes the cancer

00:42:37.560 to spread in your lungs, and it doesn't stop the cell division. So maybe you're seeing where I'm

00:42:44.760 going with this. What started off as an adaptive evolutionary mechanism can become maladaptive

00:42:54.180 and fatal if something goes wrong with the process. Now, let me explain that mechanism

00:43:00.720 specifically as relating to suicidal empathy, because then it exactly answers the question

00:43:08.380 that you asked. Let's suppose you and I are at a party, and I just happen to notice that you are

00:43:17.040 incessantly sneezing in your time to have a bad cold. And then you come up to me and say,

00:43:22.740 hey, I just wanted to introduce myself. I love your work, right? Now, I had scanned the environment

00:43:27.560 for potential environmental threats. And I noticed that it seems like Gary has a pathogenic

00:43:34.560 infestation happening right now. I'd rather not pick up his cold. So after I politely shake your

00:43:40.340 hand, I head off into the bathroom and I wash my hands to hopefully free myself of your cold.

00:43:47.420 That was perfectly adaptive. I scanned the environment and I tended to the threat.

00:43:52.580 Now, when you have OCD and when you have a specific form of OCD called germ contamination fears, that warning flag that went up when I shook the hand of Gary, then I washed my hands, I'm infinitely stuck in that loop.

00:44:09.060 So I will now wash my hands for the next eight hours. I don't get to work, so I get fired. My skin starts falling off from my hands because it's in scalding hot water. What started off as a well calibrated adaptive mechanism misfired and led to a psychiatric condition.

00:44:31.680 So now I've given you two examples. One's from cell division, one from adaptive fear of germs to maladaptive psychiatric disorder, OCD. That's exactly what happens with empathy. Empathy within well-calibrated zones is perfectly adaptive. When it misfires in the ways that I mentioned before, well, you are the wood cricket that jumps into the abyss of infinite lunacy.

00:45:01.680 You don't want to be the wood cricket.

00:45:03.640 You don't want to be the wood cricket.

00:45:05.440 Yes, sir.

00:45:06.460 Let me ask you this.

00:45:07.480 You know, we're talking about some of these different ideologies and societal, what I would call societal perversions, and basically just a denial of the truth. 0.99

00:45:17.920 I would also, and you've talked a lot about this, but I would throw in with suicidal empathy and even, you know, the parasitic mind, what's going on with the spread of Islam itself? 0.87

00:45:30.940 talk to us a little bit about suicidal empathy when it comes to islam and the different factions 0.74

00:45:37.620 and the factors that play into what is happening here in the united states because this is one of

00:45:42.720 my biggest concerns we could talk about communism look i think i've been talking a lot about

00:45:46.760 psychological operations that are taking place on social media and i think what we see right now

00:45:51.120 is a convergence of you know chinese russian and these islamists that are working together to 0.89

00:45:58.480 under to to destroy the united states and there's lots of reasons behind that but one of the 0.98

00:46:06.160 vehicles that they're using for sure is islam yes so of all of the endless examples of suicidally 0.65

00:46:16.060 empathetic policies that i discuss in the book soft on crime policies transgender activism 0.88

00:46:21.880 climate alarmism uh you know diversity inclusion equity instead of democracy and 0.51

00:46:29.300 endless other examples nothing is more fatal as a manifestation of suicidal empathy as the open

00:46:37.660 border immigration policies because as the old adage says demography is truly destiny now what

00:46:47.180 makes and again tomorrow's 250th year anniversary of the united states what makes the united states

00:46:54.840 the united states is not because it it is uh it has two beautiful oceans on either side of its

00:47:01.720 country or that it has beautiful majestic colorado rockies what makes the united states the united

00:47:08.680 States is the set of foundational principles that created American exceptionalism. Now,

00:47:17.020 it really does take an immigrant such as myself, who has sampled from the buffets of other societies

00:47:24.680 out there, to then come to you and say, please don't take your liberties and freedoms for granted.

00:47:31.520 Don't assume that that's the default value everywhere. Really truly recognize that you do

00:47:37.560 have an exceptional society that's just a little bleep in the grand totality of human societies

00:47:45.200 now why am i saying all this because what then defines that american exceptionalism is that 0.74

00:47:51.840 all of the people who are called american they could be alien they could be transgender they

00:48:00.100 could be jewish they could be atheist they could be seventh-day adventists they all internalize

00:48:05.820 the foundational values that defines the United States. This is why, and you were so kind in your

00:48:12.700 introduction, I've always said I am the main American in the sense that I've internalized

00:48:20.240 all of the principles that define America. By the way, it's no coincidence that at Ole Miss,

00:48:27.900 here's what my official title is, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Declaration of

00:48:33.640 Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom. Why did the Lebanese, Jewish, Canadian

00:48:40.960 professor get that distinguished professorship? Because my entire life, I have exemplified those

00:48:48.360 American freedoms so that Ole Miss says, that's the American that we need, okay? Now, if you allow

00:48:55.960 entry into your country of millions of people who by definition, their identity is defined 0.98

00:49:05.620 as antithetical to each one of those American principles. Do you really need a fancy professor

00:49:13.520 to tell you what's going to happen downstream? So today you go, oops, Dearborn. Oh, but it's

00:49:21.740 just Dearborn. I live in Jackson Hole. I don't care. Oops, Patterson, New Jersey. Okay, fine.

00:49:29.320 So there's Dearborn and Patterson, New Jersey. But I live in Boulder, Colorado. Who cares?

00:49:35.360 Oops, Minnesota. Okay, so now there are three really bad places. But who cares? The US is such

00:49:41.340 a big country. Plus, we've got the Second Amendment. They can't mess with us. But guess 0.71

00:49:46.100 what with it with more and more time that you know ostrich mindset of burying your head in the sand 0.95

00:49:54.220 becomes more and more dangerous i mentioned earlier bachabazi with the afghanis and so on

00:50:01.140 let me mention another one from that region the taliban would tell all the american soldiers

00:50:08.180 you have all the watches but we have all the time in the world now that's a really important

00:50:15.860 statement, because it says that the civilizational war doesn't happen in 15 minutes. Sometimes

00:50:22.940 we'll come in and Islamize a society in five minutes. Sometimes it's in five hours. Sometimes 0.99

00:50:29.660 it's in 50 years. Sometimes it's in 500 years. But rest assured, we're going to get on that train

00:50:35.860 of Islamizing you. Today, there are 56 that are part of the OIC, Organization of Islamic Cooperation, 1.00

00:50:43.760 that are islamic that once upon a time had zero percent islam nothing zero and then one day 0.96

00:50:53.040 you closed your eyes and you opened your eyes and it was 99.9 islamic what happened to the 0.84

00:51:00.740 other people where did they go iraq had a huge christian community where is it within my lifetime 0.87

00:51:09.180 I'm born in Lebanon. Arabic is my mother tongue. Within my lifetime, Lebanon was a Christian

00:51:15.080 country. Within my lifetime, it's now a Muslim country. It used to be 65% Christian. It's now

00:51:21.480 the exact opposite. It didn't take 500 years. It's within my lifetime. Egypt used to be Coptic

00:51:28.600 Christian. There are 10% Cops today. Syria used to have a huge... So what happened to all the 1.00

00:51:34.360 Christians in the Middle East? We don't know. They just magically disappeared. Probably they

00:51:38.780 were islamophobic so the united states by virtue of the fact that it is a huge country with a huge

00:51:47.420 population everyday people are unable to connect the dots but the dots are going to come for you

00:51:55.060 right so the exact same people that in canada told me 20 years ago oh come on stop with your 0.98

00:52:01.460 hyperbolic stuff nothing's going to happen in canada with the jews today they all write to me 0.98

00:52:06.660 sometimes privately, sometimes publicly, and go, oops, you were right, we should have listened to 1.00

00:52:11.460 you. Even government officials write to me and say that. So that's the problem with Islam. That

00:52:17.820 doesn't take away from the fact, I hate to always have to preface this and repeat this, but

00:52:22.000 for the slow folks in the back row, let me repeat it. This is not an indictment on individual

00:52:27.180 Muslims. There are very nice Muslims, very mean Muslims. There are very nice Jews, very mean Jews. 0.97

00:52:32.680 but islam is a set of ideas that is either congruent with american ideals or incongruent 1.00

00:52:39.740 to know which one of these two it is because otherwise you won't be celebrating the next

00:52:45.140 250 years in the same country no i agree and the same thing goes with communists or socialists

00:52:50.400 there's some really nice well-intended communists or socialists but we understand or at least most

00:52:54.600 americans should understand even though that that kind of even even that belief that communism is a

00:53:00.440 destroyer of worlds. If you want less freedom, less quality of life, go with communism. And

00:53:05.060 that of itself, in of itself, is a absolute product of suicide empathy, at least selling

00:53:12.540 it to people, for people to adopt it. That's what they have to participate in. Now, since it is the

00:53:18.200 250th anniversary of the greatest country on earth, I want to talk a little bit about the

00:53:23.560 intentional destruction of patriotism. And when I think about patriotism, I think about a confidence

00:53:29.080 and belief in the principles on which our country was founded.

00:53:34.520 And those have been under attack.

00:53:36.340 And what people want us to do is to shy away from that, to convince us that really the

00:53:41.380 greatest country on earth that was founded using the greatest principles ever put into

00:53:47.500 founding documents and applied at scale, they want us to believe that those are inherently

00:53:52.560 evil.

00:53:53.040 And what that allows us to do is it allows us to say, you know what, maybe we should just

00:53:58.040 sit back and really contemplate the validity of some of these other ideas that have failed time

00:54:05.860 and time again. And there is an attack on, and I was having this conversation with someone the

00:54:11.540 other day, and they were talking about all these different subversive ideas and tactics and things

00:54:16.680 that are being shoved down our throats through social media, through society, everything else.

00:54:20.740 And I was like, you know what? The number one solution to that is patriotism. Because people,

00:54:27.060 if you were genuinely proud of your country and proud of our history you would reject these ideas

00:54:33.540 outright because you like it's been proven like we know what america is and was and still is but

00:54:40.260 i feel like we're on the decline because we're allowing some of these other ideas to come in

00:54:44.740 and pollute what is just a wonderful system it's not perfect there is no perfect system but man

00:54:49.780 it's as close to perfect as it gets exactly and look if you were to go see a therapist and said

00:54:57.060 I hate myself. I hate everything about me. When I look at myself in the mirror,

00:55:02.780 I see a disgusting creature. Then the therapist would say, oh boy, we have a problem here. Let's 0.85

00:55:08.200 see if we can come up with a set of intervention tools to make you see that you're actually a

00:55:13.580 worthy individual. So at the individual level, if I engage in orgiastic self-loathing,

00:55:19.940 it is okay for me to go see a therapist to remedy that. But if I engage in existential

00:55:26.940 self-loathing at the nation level, then that is considered progressive at American universities,

00:55:34.260 right? So you may or may not have seen the satirical clips that I do where I start

00:55:38.580 self-flagellating myself, right? Well, why do I do that? But by the way, first, humor and satire

00:55:44.860 is an incredibly powerful means to communicate with people. So to all of my astoundingly

00:55:49.960 imbecilic professorial colleagues who say, but that's unbecoming of a professor. No, I get a 1.00

00:55:56.040 million times more my message across than you will ever do, precisely because I recognize that I can

00:56:02.740 communicate using different modalities to reach different people. It's precisely that that causes

00:56:08.280 me great pride when I receive the fan email from the soldier, from the corrections officer,

00:56:15.840 from the trucker, because I'm not just trying to speak to five other highfalutin guys in the ivory

00:56:22.840 tower i'm in the battle of changing people's mindsets about important ideas so i love when

00:56:30.580 the trucker writes to me and says oh my god you had me in stitches when you were making fun of

00:56:34.800 this or that okay so having said that how does it make sense to have a society that defines itself

00:56:43.260 as being the most enlightened the more it hates itself right so by the way this is exactly why

00:56:51.280 That's actually so profound, what you just said. That is almost the metric at which it is decided whether we are an enlightened society. The more that we realize we suck, the more enlightened that we are.

00:57:04.540 Exactly right. But thank you for saying that. So in this book right here, in my happiness book, which is the book that was between parasitic mind and suicidal empathy, I review a lot of research that looks at happiness and political orientation. 0.98

00:57:21.800 and it turns out that the research is unequivocal it's been replicated many many times conservatives

00:57:29.320 score much higher on happiness than progressives and so i offer what i think is a very plausible

00:57:35.400 explanation for this you know unequivocal finding and it's the following conservatives wake up in

00:57:42.640 the morning and by the definition of the word conservative they feel that there are values

00:57:47.540 worth conserving. So they want to have more children because they want to have their

00:57:52.900 descendants conserve those values. So I wake up in the morning. Yeah, it's not a perfect society,

00:57:58.800 but it's the best one. Thank God that I live in the United States. And I kind of shake my hands

00:58:04.380 in anticipation of the looming day that's here. The progressive wakes up in the morning filled

00:58:10.660 with existential angst. I live on stolen land. I committed genocide against the indigenous people.

00:58:16.600 There is a daily genocide of trans people. Black people can't even walk on the street. As LeBron James explained to us, he is scared to go to the Staples Center because he's going to be randomly killed by racist cops that are coming straight from the KKK. 1.00

00:58:33.880 hey, and I'm transphobic and I'm Islamophobic. There's nothing in my society that is worth 0.82

00:58:39.520 conserving. That's why I'm filled with anger and rage. That's why just around the corner,

00:58:45.580 if I could burn down the current system, I will finally get to Unicornia. So there you have it.

00:58:52.780 So it is astounding to me that you have now in the United States, two parties,

00:58:59.000 you know republicans and democrats and increasingly so the democrats are defined

00:59:05.900 as viable candidates the more hatred they spew towards the united states that's not a viable

00:59:13.940 longitudinally plausible reality you better nip it in the bud but that's why i'm coming to ole

00:59:21.120 miss to educate educate the future generations about how gorgeous your country is and hopefully

00:59:26.960 mine soon well we can't wait to have you but you know you did remind me i completely forgot my with 0.99

00:59:32.720 my opening statement introduction i forgot to do landing knowledge and i apologize you're an asshole 0.93

00:59:39.060 sir to all the disenfranchised natives out there that i forgot to tell you that my land is was your 0.77

00:59:47.440 land and then i took it from you uh i i know you only you committed an hour for us and we appreciate

00:59:53.240 so much time uh do you have a couple of minutes just take some questions from the viewers out

00:59:56.900 there let's do it all right uh if you were an extremely wealthy elite that is part of an ancient

01:00:04.040 family of elites what might you do to control the population sum it up with disconnect people

01:00:09.440 from the truth i think that's more of a statement than a question can you please ask him about

01:00:16.240 living in lebanon and how he escaped oh yes so i was born in 1964 in lebanon i was part of a very

01:00:26.040 very minuscule remaining group of Lebanese Jews and oftentimes people who don't know the area

01:00:33.600 think oh you mean so your mother was Jewish but your dad was Muslim no no no Lebanese Jews are

01:00:40.380 indigenous to the region just like there are Iraqi Jews and Egyptian Jews and Israeli Jews

01:00:46.580 and Algerian Jews those are called Mizrahi Jews meaning Jews from that land which is now Arabic

01:00:53.940 speaking Islamic clan. Much of my extended family had already left Lebanon prior to the start of the

01:01:01.760 Lebanese Civil War in 1975, because apparently they had read the warning signs on the walls,

01:01:07.660 but my parents hadn't, in part because they were very well entrenched within Lebanese society,

01:01:14.200 they were successful business people, and so on. Then the Lebanese Civil War broke out in 1975.

01:01:19.800 it unfortunately became impossible to be jewish under imminent daily threat of execution we went

01:01:27.600 through some very very bad ordeals in lebanon what you see today in television is called my childhood 0.78

01:01:35.220 my parents were kidnapped by fatah they some really bad things happened to them but luckily

01:01:42.140 they were able to be freed and so we escaped by the skin of our teeth actually i've told the story

01:01:49.520 both you know publicly and also i discuss it in the parasitic mind in chapter one

01:01:54.520 we literally the day that we escaped lebanon my parents had to hire plo militia

01:02:04.780 palestinian with the the full what you see today isis is called my childhood who came over and the

01:02:13.480 reason why we had to hire specifically plo militia is because the lebanese airport the

01:02:20.380 beirut international airport was surrounded by palestinian refugee camps where the roadblocks

01:02:28.600 for you to be able to then access the airport were manned by plo militia and if if they were

01:02:37.020 uh you know if they had any animus towards you it wasn't going to end up well for you

01:02:41.820 And so we took a gigantic risk in that we actually, from what I understand, I was only 11 years old at that point, you know, they were paid off to actually protect us on the way to the airport, get us to the airport.

01:02:56.600 Now, imagine that as you're taken by those guys with big machine guns, you literally don't know whether they're going to take you to a ditch and blow your brains.

01:03:08.980 They didn't.

01:03:10.040 They were honorable.

01:03:10.840 And so this is what I explained to people. Muslims were keen on killing us. And it was Muslims that also, in this case, freed us. So there's nice and mean Muslims, just like nice and mean in any group. But Islam is not a great thing. So we ended up escaping by the skin of our teeth. 1.00

01:03:28.400 the second that the airline pilot announced that we had cleared the lebanese airspace my mother put

01:03:39.180 it's not this one because this one i bought it recently in in israel she took out a star of

01:03:46.400 david put it around my neck and said now you can wear uh this and not no longer have to hide your

01:03:54.440 identity so it wasn't a cakewalk in lebanon but that's exactly the reason why i then come out to

01:04:01.060 the west and say guys please don't sleep on the job defend your liberties and freedom there's

01:04:06.900 always some nasty folks coming to take it away from you absolutely the parasitic mind helped 0.88

01:04:13.200 me articulate to my circle why despite placing third in the oppression olympics black female 1.00

01:04:18.760 by the way that's one of the reasons uh to to that lady's uh lovely comment this is what one 0.97

01:04:28.120 of the reasons why it's difficult for for people to cancel me because i always tell them if you

01:04:34.500 want to play victimology poker you better know who you're playing against because i'm surely

01:04:40.900 likely to outrank you and right i didn't need to be jesse smollett and manufacture a victimology

01:04:48.140 narrative my victimology narrative is my wife's talking about uh my victimology narrative

01:04:53.900 stands as the champion so i appreciate that lady's comment uh last question i have for you

01:05:00.640 and i'll let you get out of here but you know one of the things i constantly see on social media

01:05:04.720 is and it really bugs me because i think it's a it's a trick that a lot of people are falling for

01:05:11.360 and you hear different versions of this starve the grift let it die whatever it is but it's this

01:05:17.980 idea that if you just let these poisonous people or poisonous ideas, if you just don't bring

01:05:24.460 attention to them and leave them alone, they'll fade out on their own. What is your advice to that?

01:05:30.700 And what are your kind of final parting words for everybody out there? What can they do besides

01:05:36.520 read your books and become educated about this? What should they be doing at a personal level to

01:05:41.720 stop these this these mind viruses from spreading well so but to your first part of your question

01:05:48.780 which is what why can't we just ignore it it will go away uh try that strategy if your physician

01:05:54.720 tells you you've got a really virulent nasty cancer and then get back to me and tell me if

01:05:59.360 you just ignore it and engage in positive thinking hopefully that pancreatic cancer will go away

01:06:04.000 so definitely don't do that uh i mean there are many many prescriptions but i maybe will give

01:06:10.600 one that I think resonates the most with people. So in chapter eight, the last chapter of the

01:06:15.380 parasitic mind, I offer a call to actions, the most famous of which has become the call where

01:06:23.880 I ask people to activate your inner honey badger. And the reason why I use that specific animal,

01:06:31.080 the African honey badger, is because the honey badger has been literally ranked as the most

01:06:38.540 ferocious and fiercest animal in the animal kingdom and there's a lot of fierce animals in

01:06:43.620 the animal kingdom and the reason why it is so fierce is because despite the fact that it's the

01:06:48.440 size of a you know small to medium-sized dog when it walks and a bunch of adult lions pass by

01:06:56.260 they cross to the other side of the street and they go i'm sorry boss i didn't mean to interrupt

01:07:00.800 you during your stroll in the african savannah but why how could that be because it is astoundingly

01:07:07.120 ferocious right it it really walks the tallest even though it now people say well what do you

01:07:13.520 mean are you saying that activate your inner honey badgers you should be violent no of course that's

01:07:17.940 what I'm saying is when you have a set of foundational principles that you think are

01:07:24.680 worthy of defending then be a honey badger in defending them so what does that mean effectively

01:07:30.260 when you're sitting at the pub and one of your friends says something that is absolutely insane 1.00

01:07:36.980 take the opportunity to engage in a dialogue and challenge them you don't have to be an asshole 0.99

01:07:42.300 nobody's saying be mean or insulting when your professor says oh it's absolutely true that men 0.99

01:07:48.400 can menstruate then be sufficiently armed and courageous to stand up and say professor what

01:07:54.000 what do you mean by men can menstruate explain that to me like i'm a five-year-old so don't

01:07:59.800 diffuse the responsibility on a few broad shoulders right a lot of i'll give you a great example to

01:08:06.340 that which this will be the first time that i explain it i say it publicly so you're getting

01:08:10.160 an exclusive i receive i receive so usually the the most common email i receive from fans

01:08:16.060 is dear dr sad very very nice words for a few paragraphs and then the last sentence

01:08:22.840 is if you decide to read this letter on your show please don't mention my name and so then i write

01:08:30.080 back i go dear mr so-and-so thank you for your very kind words i'm very touched by them

01:08:35.060 don't you think that the last sentence in your email is precisely why we are in this current

01:08:41.080 position now and that oftentimes will get them to think oh my god you're right well just a few

01:08:46.820 days ago I received an email from a professor who was saying hey I appreciate how much you love

01:08:55.000 Lionel Messi and you're so right he is the greatest soccer player ever and here's some

01:09:00.600 additional data whatever he laid out a whole case for you know why it is absolutely the case that

01:09:07.040 Lionel Messi is the greatest player and then guess what his last sentence of his email was Gary

01:09:13.360 what's that if you decide to you know read this email on your show please don't mention my name

01:09:23.540 now why am I saying this to you Gary why are you getting this exclusive 1.00

01:09:27.560 he wasn't telling me i agree with you that islam is dangerous but i'm afraid of muslims so 0.99

01:09:36.320 therefore please don't mention my name he so lacked courage that he wasn't willing to have 0.99

01:09:44.540 his name associated with the fact that he had an opinion about who was the greatest soccer player

01:09:53.540 ever i mean is there a greater manifestation of cowardice than being so what are you afraid of

01:10:02.820 you're afraid that maybe the next guy who serves as an editor to a journal that you're sending

01:10:09.260 your paper to might be a ronaldo fan and if you were to god forbid be known as someone who sent

01:10:16.820 got sad an email about messy he might be to what extent can your cowardice go well it apparently

01:10:24.960 it can go to that extent so what i implore people to do is if the silent majority all of whom

01:10:33.260 detest this stuff but are all cowed into silence for their own idiosyncratic reasons 0.98

01:10:39.960 were to stand up tall and say basta no more we're done with this bullshit the problem will go away 0.99

01:10:48.220 by next tuesday but the monsters are counting on the fact that each of us will diffuse the 1.00

01:10:54.940 responsibility onto god sad so that the monster pac-man can come and keep eating us activate

01:11:01.640 your inner honey badger and we will have another 250 years to celebrate the united states that's

01:11:07.900 right. Well, you know, our founders were willing to risk their lives, their fortunes, their

01:11:13.160 reputations, their honor to fight for this country. And right now we're just too afraid to get some

01:11:20.200 mean comments back when lives are being perpetuated and we're not, we're like, we're scared to

01:11:25.380 challenge them. Folks, like we can't, with what's going on here in the United States and really the

01:11:30.300 world on social media, like we can give lies and false narratives no quarter. Like we should be

01:11:36.700 attacking those at every chance because it will metastasize. And you as Americans,

01:11:42.500 you need to have the courage because it's your duty to challenge those. And if you get a couple

01:11:48.760 thumbs downs or some mean comments back, you'll survive. And matter of fact, it's going to

01:11:54.100 embolden you. You're going to continue to develop a muscle that will embolden you like, nope,

01:11:59.280 this is what's going to happen. You got to be the tenacious honey badger and fight back in this

01:12:04.160 because guess what?

01:12:05.180 If you don't do it,

01:12:07.020 our future is going to be much worse

01:12:09.020 for your kids and grandkids.

01:12:10.900 And now, Dr. Seth,

01:12:13.160 thank you so much for coming on.

01:12:14.560 I appreciate your wisdom so much

01:12:17.180 and for what you do.

01:12:18.240 And I am so happy

01:12:19.260 that you are coming to America.

01:12:22.060 Can't wait.

01:12:22.840 Can't wait.

01:12:23.660 Well, listen, you don't go anywhere,

01:12:25.060 but everybody else, folks,

01:12:26.080 thank you for tuning in today.

01:12:27.320 Please, number one,

01:12:28.620 feel free to cut this up

01:12:29.760 if you're content creators.

01:12:30.900 Cut this up.

01:12:31.660 Spread it everywhere.

01:12:32.680 do whatever you want with it. You have my full permission, but make sure that you share this

01:12:37.780 content. It is so important. It's one of the most important messages of our lifetime. And it is the

01:12:42.980 message that will preserve this Republic for another 250 years. So thank you for tuning in.

01:12:47.960 I wish all of you to have a wonderful and safe 4th of July. And until next time, stay armed,

01:12:53.600 stay ready, and we'll talk to you soon.

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The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - July 10, 2026

Suicidal Empathy Is Destroying America From Within (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_1020)

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