00:04:59.580if you haven't gotten both of these books, do yourself a favor, go to Amazon or wherever books
00:05:03.800are sold and make sure you get one of these. What were the first things that kind of led you
00:05:10.500down this route? Right. So I'm glad that you did the tie in with the parasitic mind because
00:05:16.180really it is a one, two punchline. I first started noticing that, you know, very intelligent people
00:05:24.780could believe truly hallucinatory things in my academic career because when I started when I
00:05:31.940finished my PhD and I got my first professorship my goal was to incorporate evolutionary psychology
00:05:39.920and evolutionary biology and studying human behavior in general and consumer behavior and
00:05:45.980economic behavior in particular meaning that you can't fully understand why consumers behave the
00:05:53.120way that they do if you don't ever invoke their biological heritage. How do our hormones affect
00:05:59.140what types of food we're interested in eating? How does a woman's menstrual cycle affect the0.98
00:06:05.780way that she will beautify herself across the menstrual cycle? And so you can't really study
00:06:11.020any species without invoking their unique biological heritage. But then I quickly realized
00:06:17.300that within the social sciences, and I was housed in a business school, what made all those people
00:06:24.780clearly walk, lock and step with each other is that they rejected the idea that biology matters
00:06:31.680to human beings. Biology matters to every single other species except one, which somehow operates
00:06:38.400outside of the biological realm. Or if they're going to be charitable, they can accept that
00:06:43.980biology matters, but as long as it stops at the neck, meaning that we can use evolution to explain
00:06:50.620why we have opposable thumbs. That's okay. But surely, Professor Saad, you're not saying that
00:06:55.680the mind is due to evolution. That just seems like it's Nazi talk. And so that's when I first0.79
00:07:03.580sort of said, hmm, that seems strange. How could these people with all of these fancy titles before
00:07:08.860and after their name, reject that human beings are a sexually dimorphic, sexually reproducing
00:07:15.460species, which inherently means that there are evolutionary-based sex differences between men
00:07:21.540and women. And so that was my first sort of epiphany. Okay, Houston, we have a problem. And
00:07:28.600so then I've been a professor now for 32 years. And so I was swimming in the ecosystem of all of
00:07:35.740these incredibly idiotic ideas that the rest of the world eventually found out about because0.99
00:07:42.080those bad ideas escaped from the lab and became our prime ministers and our journalists and our1.00
00:07:48.320filmmakers and our culture shapers and so on. But I was seeing it firsthand. I would receive grants
00:07:54.820to evaluate that dealt with queer mathematics and queer architecture. What the hell is queer1.00
00:08:01.380mathematics mathematics is a closed axiomatic system that exists independently of whether0.98
00:08:08.040you're transgender or non-binary or gender fluid but anyways so that's when i first started seeing0.61
00:08:14.580this what a bigot you are i am a bigot uh which then led me to write the parasitic mind now let0.92
00:08:23.060me explain the one-two punch of the two books for human beings are both a thinking and a feeling0.94
00:08:28.420animal. So this idea that reason is more important than emotions is a false dichotomy. There are many
00:08:35.880cases where my emotional system is invoked and it makes perfect evolutionary sense for that to
00:08:42.600happen. If I'm doing a shortcut through an alley because it's going to shave off 15 minutes of my
00:08:48.840walk to get home and I notice a bunch of young men that are loitering around, I will get an
00:08:53.920autonomic affective response. My blood pressure will go up, my heart rate will go up, my breathing
00:09:00.100will become shallower, because there is a fear inducing situation. Well, in that case, it made
00:09:05.620perfect evolutionary sense for my affective system to be triggered. And in other cases, it should be
00:09:11.000my cognitive system, my thought processes that should be triggered. If I'm trying to do well on
00:09:15.520a calculus exam, it serves me no purpose to have my emotional system triggered. Okay, so that being
00:09:22.020said, if I need to explain how human beings could be completely hijacked in their ability
00:09:29.780to engage in critical thinking, I have to explain how your cognitive system is parasitized. That's
00:09:37.860the parasitic mind. And then how your affective system is parasitized. That's suicidal empathy.0.97
00:09:43.900So that's the link. Yeah. So, you know, everything that I've glanced through the book and read
00:09:51.800through i got about 30 pages or so into this and you're you're talking about a lot of things that
00:09:57.300really come down to a lot of liberalism communism that's that's where this and i don't want to make
00:10:02.480this political because it's not really but it is definitely some of the things that you're
00:10:06.700discussing in this book are obviously adopted by a certain political uh sect of of what we have
00:10:14.480here in both the united states and pretty much everywhere else and we see the detriment uh that
00:10:20.580this is causing the damage that it's causing both. And right now, I can't think of a better example
00:10:25.520of what's happening in Europe between we just had this report of, you know, these these rape games
00:10:31.180that are, you know, politicians are doing nothing about and we're letting people even here in the
00:10:35.800United States, we have, you know, these violent crimes. And then we have cashless bond that they're
00:10:43.260just getting back out on the street and they're doing nothing about it. And it's because they are
00:10:47.340so empathetic and sympathetic to the criminals to those that are victimizing others exactly right
00:10:55.100so let me maybe this is the right moment to explain the difference between well-calibrated
00:11:01.180empathy and suicidal empathy contrary to what many of my detractors have are saying all over
00:11:08.940the internet and all of all kinds of articles i am not anti-empathy as a matter of fact empathy
00:11:15.820is a perfectly laudable virtue by by the sheer fact that or the sheer recognition that we are
00:11:22.500a social species so as a social species with a big prefrontal cortex it makes perfect evolutionary
00:11:28.440sense for us to have evolved the capacity to be empathetic for you and i to have a meaningful
00:11:35.160conversation i need to put myself in your mind you need to put yourself in mind that's called
00:11:39.620cognitive or theory of mind so there is nothing wrong with well calibrated empathy we want our
00:11:45.940physicians our therapists our veterinarians our spouses our best friends to be empathetic but
00:11:52.600as i've i i repeatedly explained as aristotle explained to us several thousand years ago
00:11:59.500in his nicomachean ethics when he talked about the golden mean too little of something is not good
00:12:05.360too much of something is not good and let's apply it in the context of military which i believe is
00:12:11.280your background he talked about if a soldier is completely lacking in courage he's a coward
00:12:17.320that's not a good thing but if the soldier is so reckless in his you know over the top courage
00:12:23.660that he suddenly is wiped out because he's engaging in senseless risk taking that's also
00:12:29.160bad. There is some optimal temperance in the courage level that is optimal. That's also called
00:12:36.200the inverted U-shape, meaning too little of something is not good, too much of something is
00:12:40.200not good, and the optimal point of the curve is somewhere in the middle. And that mechanism
00:12:44.560applies across countless settings, including empathy. If I have no empathy, that's a signature
00:12:51.300of a psychopath. That's a bad thing. If I have too much empathy, if it hyperfires in the wrong
00:12:58.520situations towards the wrong targets, I get the perfect cocktail for suicidal empathy.
00:13:05.660Yeah. And again, we see the crime stats and just looking back, going all the way back,
00:13:11.340really, I think a lot of this started in the 60s. Moving forward, we see a lot more of this
00:13:16.420being introduced where we have convinced ourselves that there's been such a
00:13:21.720a, uh, disparate application of justice that now we have to go the exact opposite way.
00:13:30.320And for like, because people in the past have been treated wrongly, whether there's a skin
00:13:36.040color, sexual orientation, religion, whatever else, this person here in front of me, I need
00:13:41.820to remedy those past wrongs by allowing this person here in front of me to commit horrific
00:13:47.120crimes or do other engage in other illegal activity without any consequences right and so
00:13:53.300i'm going to address specifically the criminality example you gave and but then i'll give another
00:13:58.580example from the university ecosystem i call these that kind of thinking blank slate felons
00:14:05.760in suicidal empathy why do i do that because blank slate is a term that is used uh it's in in in lat
00:14:13.700in latin you say tabula rasa empty slate it means that all human beings are born with empty slates
00:14:20.200with with no biological imperatives and then it is only through the process of socialization
00:14:26.160and the idiosyncrasies of their life trajectories that they end up where they end up which of course
00:14:31.780is a completely false i mean the average three-day-old pigeon recognizes that this is false
00:14:36.880but this is a parasitic ideas that i discuss in the parasitic mind it's called social constructivism
00:14:43.200everything is a social construction to my earlier point nothing is biological now how do we apply0.75
00:14:49.100that to criminality if you internalize the following mindset which is that a black man0.98
00:14:56.420born in the united states is born in an irredeemably damaged soiled racist white supremacist society0.98
00:15:05.340he's already been existentially punished by the fact that he is born into such a terrible society
00:15:12.840So 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.
00:15:28.900what you should be doing is giving him a second chance to build his life and by second chance
00:15:35.060what i really mean is 197th chance because he's only committed 196 prior felonies or you know
00:15:44.160interactions with the law shouldn't you be a kind person and give him another chance so
00:15:48.720that's exactly how the parasitic idea of social constructivism results in the suicidally empathetic
00:15:56.960position of soft on crime policies so that's one but now let me link what you just said
00:16:01.820you know the idea of punishing or dealing with people today for sins that have happened in the
00:16:08.860past that have nothing to do with the people today okay in academia there was a time a hundred years1.00
00:16:15.260ago where women were held back from entry into universities they weren't female physicians
00:16:24.200they weren't female physicists and so on that's incontestable and it was true then we corrected
00:16:31.180that so now let's look at data from the united states this is data probably maybe four or five
00:16:38.220years ago and i only suspect that it's gotten worse so there's data from the u.s government
00:16:44.060looking at across four educational attainment levels so an associate's degree so like half a
00:16:51.820bachelor, a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, and a doctorate. So four levels of educational
00:16:58.940attainment across five racial groups, black, white, Hispanic, whatever it is, indigenous,
00:17:05.940whatever it is. So the matrix is basically a four by five matrix. And each of those 20 cells,
00:17:13.800the government is going to calculate what is the ratio of men to women in that cell.
00:17:22.120Meaning, if universities were a hotbed today of misogyny and patriarchy, we would expect each of0.54
00:17:31.760the 20 cells to have a different amount of men to women. Can I please ask you to guess what the data
00:17:41.220shows of the 20 cells how many of the 20 cells do women outnumber men
00:17:47.30010 i don't know 20 20 out of 20 cells so across every possible educational attainment
00:18:01.220across every possible racial breakdown that the u.s government keeps women outnumber men1.00
00:18:08.380So 100 years ago, there was discrimination against women. We've so corrected for that problem
00:18:16.220that we now have the opposite problem. But we certainly don't want to then correct
00:18:22.720to a new reality by offering a new narrative. That's why it's important for me to receive
00:18:29.080daily emails reminding me how to be a better ally to women in universities, even though my dean is1.00
00:18:36.740a woman. The vice provost is a woman. The chair of my department is a woman. The chair professors1.00
00:18:42.780in my department, this is my old university. I'm now living to Ole Miss. They're all women,
00:18:48.340but I'm still lectured about how to be a better ally because we would never want facts to get
00:18:55.300in the way of my preferred victimology narrative. Yeah, I mean, that's wild. And they're still
00:19:02.480considered a, I don't know, protected class, a, you know, a minority, and we just got to pretend
00:19:09.060that the numbers don't exist. And this goes back to what you're talking about. Like it's one thing
00:19:14.780to, to have these discussions regarding abstracts, psychology, philosophy, but then when we start
00:19:23.880getting into the hard sciences, now we're seeing that invade there. And one of the things that I
00:19:28.340see on a regular basis is like people are no longer logical uh people are no longer like there
00:19:35.620is no objective reality everything is relative and it started off with relative moralism and
00:19:41.760now we have like just relative reality right like whatever i think is correct that's the way that
00:19:48.720needs to be corrected it's clearly all of that is tied together talk to us a little bit about that
00:19:53.380Yeah, 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?
00:20:19.900there are no objective truths other than the one objective truth that there are no objective truths
00:20:25.040which already shows you how the whole edifice breaks down but now that applies everywhere
00:20:30.180so for example in in the parasitic mind i talked about uh at one point going to visit a colleague
00:20:37.200uh who was a professor then at carnegie mellon university and so he he was teaching a class or
00:20:45.600something so i was on my own for a while i said oh let me go to the carnegie museum and so i headed
00:20:50.440off to the carnegie museum and right there amongst other you know beautiful art was a blank canvas
00:20:57.540as an art piece now of course i understood the nonsense that was promulgated there but because
00:21:04.100i am who i am i demanded to see the curator of the museum because that pissed me off so then0.94
00:21:10.420they didn't send the curator they sent some other you know schmuck who said how can i help you sir0.90
00:21:15.840i said why did i pay money to come to see art and you put up this empty canvas oh but that that's0.86
00:21:23.840it's wonderful that you you asked this sir because that gives us an opportunity to have a discussion
00:21:29.880because it's relative what you consider art by da vinci and by michael i may have a different
00:21:39.000definition called an empty canvas or i can take as you probably know the the the scotch tape thing
00:21:44.500and put the banana peel on it and that becomes a there's there was actually also an invisible
00:21:52.940art exhibit this is not my satire you go to a place where you look at invisible art well that
00:22:02.760perfectly makes sense if there is no such thing as reality let me give you another example music
00:22:08.900is actually mathematical right we can study musicology by by actually mapping it onto
00:22:16.160specific mathematical patterns well how about under relativistic music you could take a chimpanzee
00:22:24.780make them do random noises and then people sit there at this beautiful symphony by the five0.99
00:22:31.560chimps but that is just equivalent to beethoven because who are you asshole to judge what is0.99
00:22:38.120really music. So that, because I can then do that, then there is no such thing as the scientific0.96
00:22:44.680method. There are just different ways of knowing. If our culture believes that the way that you
00:22:51.240cure cancer is by doing tribal dances and invoking the gods of the clouds, then that's their way of0.97
00:22:59.160navigating science. Shut up, white racists, because we know that the scientific method is laced with0.99
00:23:06.280white supremacy so you're exactly right the relativistic framework is the catalyst that1.00
00:23:14.500then allows all the other nonsense to proliferate you know when we go back to even the 50s and 60s
00:23:21.100we know that like especially the ussr was trying to seed uh communistic thoughts i mean they've
00:23:28.640talked about this we have the naked communist that was read in front of congress and i don't
00:23:32.920like 1963. We know what their goals are. And when you look at that, like this feels like that comes
00:23:40.860from like, what is it? Is it the chicken and the egg? Are these ideas that are being presented
00:23:46.600so that we will accept something that doesn't benefit us? And is it intentional? Is it a
00:23:53.700psychological and cognitive manipulation? Or is this a product of something else?
00:24:00.360yeah great question it's a bit of both so it's not as though all of these parasitic ideas that
00:24:07.680eventually lead to suicidal empathy were all designed in a dr evil lab in davos right with0.91
00:24:15.280all of the world economic forum idiots right it's not that now some people will recognize that they0.98
00:24:22.760can use you know dysregulated empathy to you know to promote their political ideologies but really0.97
00:24:30.420it happened in a non-top-down design it was a bottom-up process and let me explain how it
00:24:37.200happened each of these parasitic ideas were spawned originally on university campuses
00:24:44.860by professors because as i like to always remind people it uniquely takes intellectuals to come up0.99
00:24:52.740with some of the most imbecilic ideas now why is that is it because they're dumb no it's because0.99
00:24:58.220their ideas are perfectly decoupled they're perfectly untethered to reality right so if I1.00
00:25:07.420am a professor with a wool jacket in the humanities I stand up on the pedestal and I say
00:25:13.720men are women slavery is freedom well rather than being laughed out of the auditorium I get promoted
00:25:21.620to be a tenured professor. Oh, wow. So the more nonsensical bullshit that I promulgate,0.99
00:25:28.400the higher in the academic ranking. There is no auto-corrective mechanism called reality.0.99
00:25:35.300Well, so all of those parasitic ideas originally began on university campuses for noble reasons.
00:25:43.220But then in the service of that noble objective, if we have to rape and murder truth, so be it.
00:25:49.720And 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
00:26:08.000But 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
00:26:26.400And the fact that men might be better bench press more than women could not be due to evolved biological reasons.
00:26:35.840It's social construction. It's because little Linda was taught to play with nurturance with with with dolls,1.00
00:26:43.340whereas 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
00:26:51.960That's what led to the downstream difference in in bench pressing.1.00
00:26:55.500So 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
00:27:09.820That's the same thing with transgender activism, right?
00:27:12.760When 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
00:27:25.300I don't give a damn what you do if you want to put a dress on or not.
00:27:29.720But that doesn't mean that in granting you the right to be free of bigotry that I have0.93
00:27:36.400to murder truth in my classroom by saying, yeah, yeah, of course men too can menstruate.
00:27:42.200Yes, yes, of course men too can bear children.
00:27:44.720I can walk and chew gum at the same time.
00:27:47.320I could want to aspire to have a society that is as free of bigotry as possible without
00:27:53.000ever murdering truth whereas the very kind and empathetic professors don't believe that if we
00:27:59.800have to murder truth for a nicer society so be it now are all these these ideas just simply
00:28:07.880ideologically driven or is there a motive behind it and if so what do you think that motive is
00:28:15.420well each of those parasitic ideas has a different motive so i just gave you the shift from equity0.98
00:28:22.320feminism to radical feminism stems from we really need to accelerate the squashing of the patriarchy
00:28:28.920so we need to now promote this parasitic idea associated with radical feminism let's talk about
00:28:34.980cultural relativism cultural relativism is the idea that it is wrong for you to ever judge the
00:28:43.680practices and beliefs of another society so for example it this is this i discussed this in
00:28:50.520social empathy when the american soldiers were seeing the practice of bachabazi in afghanistan
00:28:59.000which is a beautiful and lovely and empathetic form of massive pedophilia of young boys because0.95
00:29:07.080as the beautiful afghani and islamic society explained to us women are for reproduction1.00
00:29:13.240little boys are for pleasure shut up racist don't you dare corporal with your bullshit american1.00
00:29:21.400values go impose your values on that other noble side they've got their own way of doing things1.00
00:29:27.640if they want to cut off the clitorises of five-year-old girls shut up racist now that1.00
00:29:33.040cultural relativistic parasitic idea comes actually from about a hundred years ago from a0.99
00:29:41.680professor of anthropology named Franz Boas. He thought, as an anthropologist, that it was very
00:29:49.780dangerous to argue that there are human universals, that there is a biological heritage that ties all
00:29:57.160people, because then there is all sorts of nefarious people who could misuse this knowledge.
00:30:02.860For example, eugenicists argued, hey, there is a natural Darwinian struggle between people, and so
00:30:09.000if we sterilize this group of people so that they don't reproduce, hey, that's okay. That's
00:30:13.920Darwinian. Well, of course it isn't. It has nothing to do with Darwin, but they were misusing
00:30:18.580evolutionary theory for their nefarious purposes. So this very kind and empathetic professor,
00:30:24.020and I say this sarcastically, said, why don't we now create a new worldview where we argue that
00:30:30.900there is no such thing as biology, there is no such thing as absolute moral truths, and that
00:30:37.720hopefully that can protect the other, like the ones engaging in institutionalized pedophilia of
00:30:44.360little boys. American soldiers, please do not intervene. It's much kinder to ensure that the
00:30:50.460eight-year-old boys are sodomized by warlords. So to answer your question, it starts off from
00:30:59.140an actual noble reflex, but it's extremely dangerous because truth should be a deontological
00:31:06.560mechanism. And let me, forgive me for using these terms because it's important for your audience to
00:31:11.280understand what they mean. In ethics, there are two different ethical systems. There's what's
00:31:17.020called deontological ethics and consequentialist ethics. Deontological ethics are absolute
00:31:23.100statements. So if I say it is never okay to lie, that would be a deontological statement. If I say
00:31:29.340it is okay to lie to spare someone's feelings, for example, if my wife asks, do I look fat in those
00:31:35.740jeans, then if I want to have a happy and long marriage, I will put on my consequentialist hat
00:31:41.780and I say, no, no, you haven't looked, you've never looked more beautiful, even though I might
00:31:45.720be fibbing a bit because I want to protect her feelings because I love her and I want to not
00:31:51.980hurt her feelings. And for many things, we are all consequentialists. That's okay. But for certain
00:31:58.240principles like freedom of inquiry, freedom of speech, presumption of innocence, those have to
00:32:06.260be deontological. And it's quite fortuitous that given that tomorrow is the official 250-year
00:32:13.540anniversary of the United States, what made the United States great, and hopefully will be for
00:32:19.920another 250 years, is that there was a foundational bedrock of deontological principles that we all
00:32:28.040agreed were divine and that we should never violate but then we allow the consequentialist
00:32:35.140calculus to come into the shrine of deontological ethics and you end up with the nonsense that you
00:32:40.860see today yeah you know one of the things i just can't get over when it comes to the left and this
00:32:47.960ties right into that is you know this not accepting the difference between men and women
00:32:53.620And, you know, we see this in our society where, again, we're trying to put women in
00:32:58.360boys' sports and vice versa, and you see a lot more boys going into women's sports.
00:33:05.700And unfortunately, it does disenfranchise a lot of women.
00:33:09.480The thing that really upsets me is the trying to devalue what women do and what women bring
00:33:17.580to the table and not appreciating the differences between men and women.
00:33:21.180There's things that women do that are, they're going to be able to do much better than I can
00:33:24.540do the things that my wife, I, I love that she's a woman and that she can, and one of the best0.92
00:33:29.180things obviously is being able to have children and be able to raise children. Like, why don't
00:33:36.300they accept the differences and just appreciate that? And then always trying to diminish. It's
00:33:43.180like there's this, you know, there's this, uh, the society that's ran by men and that's evil.0.99
00:33:51.300But what we want is women to act exactly like men. And we completely dismissed the value that0.80
00:33:57.680women bring to the table and bring to our society, bring to our families. It's like,1.00
00:34:02.220that's not important at all. Right. Uh, look, and I'll answer it with an example that I know
00:34:08.600you're obviously familiar with but that really speaks to the collective looms that the west
00:34:14.680is is gripped under right now imagine that in the 21st century the latest addition to the supreme
00:34:24.740court was asked in the confirmation hearing by a senator what is a woman and she was so lacking0.99
00:34:36.560in self-assuredness that rather than answering what kind of idiotic question is this of course0.98
00:34:44.040i know what it was now this is not just some abstract exercise you will be one of nine people0.97
00:34:50.720that will render judgments that will be very influential on the daily lives of these things
00:34:59.720called what are these things called oh women right women but because you're not a biologist1.00
00:35:07.320as she explained to us she just i mean how the hell can i know what a woman is this is why by0.83
00:35:12.480the way and i'm gary this is really kataji brown the last i checked is a woman like i don't i don't
00:35:17.580know that i don't know that because i'm i'm actually my phd is not in biology so i can't
00:35:21.700make fair enough okay but this is why by the way when so now we're moving to mississippi and we
00:35:28.600we have belgian shepherds before it was cool for every cool guy to own a malinois you can f off
00:35:35.220with your joining the the train of malinois i've been a belgian guy for 40 years before all the
00:35:41.820people were in diapers and didn't know what a belgian shepherd okay but that's a tangent so
00:35:45.540we're getting our next round of belgian shepherds because our male and female unfortunately have
00:35:51.080passed away. Now, given that I'm not a veterinarian, I don't know what constitutes a dog.
00:35:59.960That's why I actually went to Libya and was actually going to pick a giraffe as my Belgian
00:36:08.000shepherd. But it's only because a vet who is specializing in animals told me, no, no, no,
00:36:15.040dr sad that's a giraffe it won't fit into your house that i then was channeled correctly to get
00:36:21.860a belgian shepherd right so why am i saying this hyperbolic satire because that's literally what
00:36:28.440it is until 15 minutes ago the 117 billion people that had existed on earth that by the way that's
00:36:36.640a real estimate right there are real estimates for how many homo sapiens have existed since we
00:36:42.500became a distinct species. The number is 117 billion. So until 15 minutes ago, all of our
00:36:50.560ancestors, all 117 billion of them, seemed to have been able to really easily navigate through the
00:36:58.440conundrum of identifying with whom they should mate. But 15 minutes ago, we lost that ability.
00:37:05.580And that's why I always now make sure to always give my pronouns. Because if you look at me and
00:37:12.000listen to me, you wouldn't otherwise know that I'm a man. Well, that speaks to your question.
00:37:19.060That's what parasitic thinking is. Now, why do I use the term, and by the way, thank you so much
00:37:23.840for granting me the forum to give these long-winded answers. Why do I use the parasitic
00:37:33.400framework? So in nature, the field of parasitology is about studying host-parasite interactions,
00:37:40.760and there are endless examples of that throughout all animal taxa. Here's an example. A tapeworm
00:37:48.040parasitizes your intestinal tract, so that's a parasite, but a subfield of parasitology,
00:37:55.920neuroparasitology, this is where the parasite needs to end up in the host's brain,
00:38:03.660altering its circuitry to suit its interests. So the classic example that I give, but there are
00:38:10.220many, many others, is the wood cricket. The wood cricket abhors water. It wants nothing to do with
00:38:16.560water. But when it is parasitized by a hair worm, the hair worm needs for the wood cricket to jump0.68
00:38:24.260into water, commit suicide, hence suicidal empathy, because the hair worm can only complete its
00:38:32.400reproductive cycle in water. So once that hapless, poor wood cricket has been parasitized by the
00:38:40.200hairworm, it loses its most fundamental instinct of survival. And therefore, it happily jumps into
00:38:48.700the water and it dies. Well, let's now apply it to human beings. Hashtag queers for Palestine,
00:38:56.460and I am a queer woman. So I have a quote in the book where the street interviewer
00:39:04.700goes up to a woman i think it was in manchester england at a free free palestine death to jews
00:39:10.780the whole thing where he says to her oh you're you're all about free palestine yes yes do you
00:39:18.600know what they do to gay people in palestine she goes i do know what they do i'm queer myself
00:39:23.740and he says oh what what do you mean you're so how could you then be supporting the society0.99
00:39:30.620that would kill you. She goes, well, I don't care that they would kill me. I still think that they
00:39:36.340are worthy of being defended. Well, that's a human wood cricket. That's a bipedal wood cricket.
00:39:43.640She is saying that I'm happy to jump into the water and commit suicide for this higher noble0.54
00:39:51.240goal. So to wrap up this answer, when the people are doing what they're doing with all the trans1.00
00:39:58.520stuff, they're saying, I don't care that my 14-year-old daughter is going to be sharing the0.98
00:40:08.260showers with Bubba, who has a nine-inch penis, but yesterday called himself Linda, and therefore0.99
00:40:16.560he is just another little girl. So if my daughter has to go through this indignity of looking at0.99
00:40:25.120another girl who has a nine inch penis, that's okay because there is a higher goal, which is0.99
00:40:30.900I'm all for trans rights. Now, at the beginning of this, you talked about some of this stuff is0.99
00:40:38.940evolutionary and it's built into our brains. Well, you know, if we see that these things ultimately
00:40:45.080lead to our demise, what is the evolutionary answer to that? Or I would even say being someone
00:40:52.160that believes in creation uh you know even a god-given yes um you know uh like we're we're
00:40:59.560trying to stay alive right so you know what is the answer like how does that play into it or is
00:41:04.600that us completely overriding what is imprinted on our minds whether you believe it's from evolution
00:41:09.720or god fantastic question and i appreciate your diplomatic uh way of framing that so that i could
00:41:16.720answered in an evolutionary way or in a religious way well well done uh playing to your audience i
00:41:22.480like it uh okay but here's although i'm not implying that all of your audience are creationists
00:41:27.580i'm sure some i'm sure they're not exactly some are it's all good more importantly i know that i
00:41:32.800know where you come from and how you're explaining this and i know that you you also kind of try to
00:41:37.300explain things from a religious standpoint because they're no matter what you believe like like how
00:41:42.660we ended up here there's some there's some there's some overlap there yeah very very well said okay
00:41:48.380take for example for example healthy cells healthy cells have evolved to split divide
00:42:00.440and multiply right you get an injury it's that mechanism that then allows the body to heal
00:42:07.560itself. Cancer cells also divide and multiply. The difference between the two is that something
00:42:17.900in an otherwise evolutionarily adaptive mechanism misfires in cancer. So if it is, for example,
00:42:30.360you're smoking, there is DNA damage that's done to your lung cells that then causes the cancer
00:42:37.560to spread in your lungs, and it doesn't stop the cell division. So maybe you're seeing where I'm
00:42:44.760going with this. What started off as an adaptive evolutionary mechanism can become maladaptive
00:42:54.180and fatal if something goes wrong with the process. Now, let me explain that mechanism
00:43:00.720specifically as relating to suicidal empathy, because then it exactly answers the question
00:43:08.380that you asked. Let's suppose you and I are at a party, and I just happen to notice that you are
00:43:17.040incessantly sneezing in your time to have a bad cold. And then you come up to me and say,
00:43:22.740hey, I just wanted to introduce myself. I love your work, right? Now, I had scanned the environment
00:43:27.560for potential environmental threats. And I noticed that it seems like Gary has a pathogenic
00:43:34.560infestation happening right now. I'd rather not pick up his cold. So after I politely shake your
00:43:40.340hand, I head off into the bathroom and I wash my hands to hopefully free myself of your cold.
00:43:47.420That was perfectly adaptive. I scanned the environment and I tended to the threat.
00:43:52.580Now, 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.
00:44:09.060So 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.
00:44:31.680So 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.
00:45:01.680You don't want to be the wood cricket.
00:45:03.640You don't want to be the wood cricket.
00:45:07.480You 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
00:45:17.920I 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
00:45:30.940talk to us a little bit about suicidal empathy when it comes to islam and the different factions0.74
00:45:37.620and the factors that play into what is happening here in the united states because this is one of
00:45:42.720my biggest concerns we could talk about communism look i think i've been talking a lot about
00:45:46.760psychological operations that are taking place on social media and i think what we see right now
00:45:51.120is a convergence of you know chinese russian and these islamists that are working together to0.89
00:45:58.480under to to destroy the united states and there's lots of reasons behind that but one of the0.98
00:46:06.160vehicles that they're using for sure is islam yes so of all of the endless examples of suicidally0.65
00:46:16.060empathetic policies that i discuss in the book soft on crime policies transgender activism0.88
00:46:21.880climate alarmism uh you know diversity inclusion equity instead of democracy and0.51
00:46:29.300endless other examples nothing is more fatal as a manifestation of suicidal empathy as the open
00:46:37.660border immigration policies because as the old adage says demography is truly destiny now what
00:46:47.180makes and again tomorrow's 250th year anniversary of the united states what makes the united states
00:46:54.840the united states is not because it it is uh it has two beautiful oceans on either side of its
00:47:01.720country or that it has beautiful majestic colorado rockies what makes the united states the united
00:47:08.680States is the set of foundational principles that created American exceptionalism. Now,
00:47:17.020it really does take an immigrant such as myself, who has sampled from the buffets of other societies
00:47:24.680out there, to then come to you and say, please don't take your liberties and freedoms for granted.
00:47:31.520Don't assume that that's the default value everywhere. Really truly recognize that you do
00:47:37.560have an exceptional society that's just a little bleep in the grand totality of human societies
00:47:45.200now why am i saying all this because what then defines that american exceptionalism is that0.74
00:47:51.840all of the people who are called american they could be alien they could be transgender they
00:48:00.100could be jewish they could be atheist they could be seventh-day adventists they all internalize
00:48:05.820the foundational values that defines the United States. This is why, and you were so kind in your
00:48:12.700introduction, I've always said I am the main American in the sense that I've internalized
00:48:20.240all of the principles that define America. By the way, it's no coincidence that at Ole Miss,
00:48:27.900here's what my official title is, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Declaration of
00:48:33.640Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom. Why did the Lebanese, Jewish, Canadian
00:48:40.960professor get that distinguished professorship? Because my entire life, I have exemplified those
00:48:48.360American freedoms so that Ole Miss says, that's the American that we need, okay? Now, if you allow
00:48:55.960entry into your country of millions of people who by definition, their identity is defined0.98
00:49:05.620as antithetical to each one of those American principles. Do you really need a fancy professor
00:49:13.520to tell you what's going to happen downstream? So today you go, oops, Dearborn. Oh, but it's
00:49:21.740just Dearborn. I live in Jackson Hole. I don't care. Oops, Patterson, New Jersey. Okay, fine.
00:49:29.320So there's Dearborn and Patterson, New Jersey. But I live in Boulder, Colorado. Who cares?
00:49:35.360Oops, Minnesota. Okay, so now there are three really bad places. But who cares? The US is such
00:49:41.340a big country. Plus, we've got the Second Amendment. They can't mess with us. But guess0.71
00:49:46.100what with it with more and more time that you know ostrich mindset of burying your head in the sand0.95
00:49:54.220becomes more and more dangerous i mentioned earlier bachabazi with the afghanis and so on
00:50:01.140let me mention another one from that region the taliban would tell all the american soldiers
00:50:08.180you have all the watches but we have all the time in the world now that's a really important
00:50:15.860statement, because it says that the civilizational war doesn't happen in 15 minutes. Sometimes
00:50:22.940we'll come in and Islamize a society in five minutes. Sometimes it's in five hours. Sometimes0.99
00:50:29.660it's in 50 years. Sometimes it's in 500 years. But rest assured, we're going to get on that train
00:50:35.860of Islamizing you. Today, there are 56 that are part of the OIC, Organization of Islamic Cooperation,1.00
00:50:43.760that are islamic that once upon a time had zero percent islam nothing zero and then one day0.96
00:50:53.040you closed your eyes and you opened your eyes and it was 99.9 islamic what happened to the0.84
00:51:00.740other people where did they go iraq had a huge christian community where is it within my lifetime0.87
00:51:09.180I'm born in Lebanon. Arabic is my mother tongue. Within my lifetime, Lebanon was a Christian
00:51:15.080country. Within my lifetime, it's now a Muslim country. It used to be 65% Christian. It's now
00:51:21.480the exact opposite. It didn't take 500 years. It's within my lifetime. Egypt used to be Coptic
00:51:28.600Christian. There are 10% Cops today. Syria used to have a huge... So what happened to all the1.00
00:51:34.360Christians in the Middle East? We don't know. They just magically disappeared. Probably they
00:51:38.780were islamophobic so the united states by virtue of the fact that it is a huge country with a huge
00:51:47.420population everyday people are unable to connect the dots but the dots are going to come for you
00:51:55.060right so the exact same people that in canada told me 20 years ago oh come on stop with your0.98
00:52:01.460hyperbolic stuff nothing's going to happen in canada with the jews today they all write to me0.98
00:52:06.660sometimes privately, sometimes publicly, and go, oops, you were right, we should have listened to1.00
00:52:11.460you. Even government officials write to me and say that. So that's the problem with Islam. That
00:52:17.820doesn't take away from the fact, I hate to always have to preface this and repeat this, but
00:52:22.000for the slow folks in the back row, let me repeat it. This is not an indictment on individual
00:52:27.180Muslims. There are very nice Muslims, very mean Muslims. There are very nice Jews, very mean Jews.0.97
00:52:32.680but islam is a set of ideas that is either congruent with american ideals or incongruent1.00
00:52:39.740to know which one of these two it is because otherwise you won't be celebrating the next
00:52:45.140250 years in the same country no i agree and the same thing goes with communists or socialists
00:52:50.400there's some really nice well-intended communists or socialists but we understand or at least most
00:52:54.600americans should understand even though that that kind of even even that belief that communism is a
00:53:00.440destroyer of worlds. If you want less freedom, less quality of life, go with communism. And
00:53:05.060that of itself, in of itself, is a absolute product of suicide empathy, at least selling
00:53:12.540it to people, for people to adopt it. That's what they have to participate in. Now, since it is the
00:53:18.200250th anniversary of the greatest country on earth, I want to talk a little bit about the
00:53:23.560intentional destruction of patriotism. And when I think about patriotism, I think about a confidence
00:53:29.080and belief in the principles on which our country was founded.
00:53:53.040And what that allows us to do is it allows us to say, you know what, maybe we should just
00:53:58.040sit back and really contemplate the validity of some of these other ideas that have failed time
00:54:05.860and time again. And there is an attack on, and I was having this conversation with someone the
00:54:11.540other day, and they were talking about all these different subversive ideas and tactics and things
00:54:16.680that are being shoved down our throats through social media, through society, everything else.
00:54:20.740And I was like, you know what? The number one solution to that is patriotism. Because people,
00:54:27.060if you were genuinely proud of your country and proud of our history you would reject these ideas
00:54:33.540outright because you like it's been proven like we know what america is and was and still is but
00:54:40.260i feel like we're on the decline because we're allowing some of these other ideas to come in
00:54:44.740and pollute what is just a wonderful system it's not perfect there is no perfect system but man
00:54:49.780it's as close to perfect as it gets exactly and look if you were to go see a therapist and said
00:54:57.060I hate myself. I hate everything about me. When I look at myself in the mirror,
00:55:02.780I see a disgusting creature. Then the therapist would say, oh boy, we have a problem here. Let's0.85
00:55:08.200see if we can come up with a set of intervention tools to make you see that you're actually a
00:55:13.580worthy individual. So at the individual level, if I engage in orgiastic self-loathing,
00:55:19.940it is okay for me to go see a therapist to remedy that. But if I engage in existential
00:55:26.940self-loathing at the nation level, then that is considered progressive at American universities,
00:55:34.260right? So you may or may not have seen the satirical clips that I do where I start
00:55:38.580self-flagellating myself, right? Well, why do I do that? But by the way, first, humor and satire
00:55:44.860is an incredibly powerful means to communicate with people. So to all of my astoundingly
00:55:49.960imbecilic professorial colleagues who say, but that's unbecoming of a professor. No, I get a1.00
00:55:56.040million times more my message across than you will ever do, precisely because I recognize that I can
00:56:02.740communicate using different modalities to reach different people. It's precisely that that causes
00:56:08.280me great pride when I receive the fan email from the soldier, from the corrections officer,
00:56:15.840from the trucker, because I'm not just trying to speak to five other highfalutin guys in the ivory
00:56:22.840tower i'm in the battle of changing people's mindsets about important ideas so i love when
00:56:30.580the trucker writes to me and says oh my god you had me in stitches when you were making fun of
00:56:34.800this or that okay so having said that how does it make sense to have a society that defines itself
00:56:43.260as being the most enlightened the more it hates itself right so by the way this is exactly why
00:56:51.280That'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.
00:57:04.540Exactly 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
00:57:21.800and it turns out that the research is unequivocal it's been replicated many many times conservatives
00:57:29.320score much higher on happiness than progressives and so i offer what i think is a very plausible
00:57:35.400explanation for this you know unequivocal finding and it's the following conservatives wake up in
00:57:42.640the morning and by the definition of the word conservative they feel that there are values
00:57:47.540worth conserving. So they want to have more children because they want to have their
00:57:52.900descendants conserve those values. So I wake up in the morning. Yeah, it's not a perfect society,
00:57:58.800but it's the best one. Thank God that I live in the United States. And I kind of shake my hands
00:58:04.380in anticipation of the looming day that's here. The progressive wakes up in the morning filled
00:58:10.660with existential angst. I live on stolen land. I committed genocide against the indigenous people.
00:58:16.600There 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
00:58:33.880hey, and I'm transphobic and I'm Islamophobic. There's nothing in my society that is worth0.82
00:58:39.520conserving. That's why I'm filled with anger and rage. That's why just around the corner,
00:58:45.580if I could burn down the current system, I will finally get to Unicornia. So there you have it.
00:58:52.780So it is astounding to me that you have now in the United States, two parties,
00:58:59.000you know republicans and democrats and increasingly so the democrats are defined
00:59:05.900as viable candidates the more hatred they spew towards the united states that's not a viable
00:59:13.940longitudinally plausible reality you better nip it in the bud but that's why i'm coming to ole
00:59:21.120miss to educate educate the future generations about how gorgeous your country is and hopefully
00:59:26.960mine soon well we can't wait to have you but you know you did remind me i completely forgot my with0.99
00:59:32.720my opening statement introduction i forgot to do landing knowledge and i apologize you're an asshole0.93
00:59:39.060sir to all the disenfranchised natives out there that i forgot to tell you that my land is was your0.77
00:59:47.440land and then i took it from you uh i i know you only you committed an hour for us and we appreciate
00:59:53.240so much time uh do you have a couple of minutes just take some questions from the viewers out
00:59:56.900there let's do it all right uh if you were an extremely wealthy elite that is part of an ancient
01:00:04.040family of elites what might you do to control the population sum it up with disconnect people
01:00:09.440from the truth i think that's more of a statement than a question can you please ask him about
01:00:16.240living in lebanon and how he escaped oh yes so i was born in 1964 in lebanon i was part of a very
01:00:26.040very minuscule remaining group of Lebanese Jews and oftentimes people who don't know the area
01:00:33.600think oh you mean so your mother was Jewish but your dad was Muslim no no no Lebanese Jews are
01:00:40.380indigenous to the region just like there are Iraqi Jews and Egyptian Jews and Israeli Jews
01:00:46.580and Algerian Jews those are called Mizrahi Jews meaning Jews from that land which is now Arabic
01:00:53.940speaking Islamic clan. Much of my extended family had already left Lebanon prior to the start of the
01:01:01.760Lebanese Civil War in 1975, because apparently they had read the warning signs on the walls,
01:01:07.660but my parents hadn't, in part because they were very well entrenched within Lebanese society,
01:01:14.200they were successful business people, and so on. Then the Lebanese Civil War broke out in 1975.
01:01:19.800it unfortunately became impossible to be jewish under imminent daily threat of execution we went
01:01:27.600through some very very bad ordeals in lebanon what you see today in television is called my childhood0.78
01:01:35.220my parents were kidnapped by fatah they some really bad things happened to them but luckily
01:01:42.140they were able to be freed and so we escaped by the skin of our teeth actually i've told the story
01:01:49.520both you know publicly and also i discuss it in the parasitic mind in chapter one
01:01:54.520we literally the day that we escaped lebanon my parents had to hire plo militia
01:02:04.780palestinian with the the full what you see today isis is called my childhood who came over and the
01:02:13.480reason why we had to hire specifically plo militia is because the lebanese airport the
01:02:20.380beirut international airport was surrounded by palestinian refugee camps where the roadblocks
01:02:28.600for you to be able to then access the airport were manned by plo militia and if if they were
01:02:37.020uh you know if they had any animus towards you it wasn't going to end up well for you
01:02:41.820And 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.
01:02:56.600Now, 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.
01:03:10.840And 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
01:03:28.400the second that the airline pilot announced that we had cleared the lebanese airspace my mother put
01:03:39.180it's not this one because this one i bought it recently in in israel she took out a star of
01:03:46.400david put it around my neck and said now you can wear uh this and not no longer have to hide your
01:03:54.440identity so it wasn't a cakewalk in lebanon but that's exactly the reason why i then come out to
01:04:01.060the west and say guys please don't sleep on the job defend your liberties and freedom there's
01:04:06.900always some nasty folks coming to take it away from you absolutely the parasitic mind helped0.88
01:04:13.200me articulate to my circle why despite placing third in the oppression olympics black female1.00
01:04:18.760by the way that's one of the reasons uh to to that lady's uh lovely comment this is what one0.97
01:04:28.120of the reasons why it's difficult for for people to cancel me because i always tell them if you
01:04:34.500want to play victimology poker you better know who you're playing against because i'm surely
01:04:40.900likely to outrank you and right i didn't need to be jesse smollett and manufacture a victimology
01:04:48.140narrative my victimology narrative is my wife's talking about uh my victimology narrative
01:04:53.900stands as the champion so i appreciate that lady's comment uh last question i have for you
01:05:00.640and i'll let you get out of here but you know one of the things i constantly see on social media
01:05:04.720is and it really bugs me because i think it's a it's a trick that a lot of people are falling for
01:05:11.360and you hear different versions of this starve the grift let it die whatever it is but it's this
01:05:17.980idea that if you just let these poisonous people or poisonous ideas, if you just don't bring
01:05:24.460attention to them and leave them alone, they'll fade out on their own. What is your advice to that?
01:05:30.700And what are your kind of final parting words for everybody out there? What can they do besides
01:05:36.520read your books and become educated about this? What should they be doing at a personal level to
01:05:41.720stop these this these mind viruses from spreading well so but to your first part of your question
01:05:48.780which is what why can't we just ignore it it will go away uh try that strategy if your physician
01:05:54.720tells you you've got a really virulent nasty cancer and then get back to me and tell me if
01:05:59.360you just ignore it and engage in positive thinking hopefully that pancreatic cancer will go away
01:06:04.000so definitely don't do that uh i mean there are many many prescriptions but i maybe will give
01:06:10.600one that I think resonates the most with people. So in chapter eight, the last chapter of the
01:06:15.380parasitic mind, I offer a call to actions, the most famous of which has become the call where
01:06:23.880I ask people to activate your inner honey badger. And the reason why I use that specific animal,
01:06:31.080the African honey badger, is because the honey badger has been literally ranked as the most
01:06:38.540ferocious and fiercest animal in the animal kingdom and there's a lot of fierce animals in
01:06:43.620the animal kingdom and the reason why it is so fierce is because despite the fact that it's the
01:06:48.440size of a you know small to medium-sized dog when it walks and a bunch of adult lions pass by
01:06:56.260they cross to the other side of the street and they go i'm sorry boss i didn't mean to interrupt
01:07:00.800you during your stroll in the african savannah but why how could that be because it is astoundingly
01:07:07.120ferocious right it it really walks the tallest even though it now people say well what do you
01:07:13.520mean are you saying that activate your inner honey badgers you should be violent no of course that's
01:07:17.940what I'm saying is when you have a set of foundational principles that you think are
01:07:24.680worthy of defending then be a honey badger in defending them so what does that mean effectively
01:07:30.260when you're sitting at the pub and one of your friends says something that is absolutely insane1.00
01:07:36.980take the opportunity to engage in a dialogue and challenge them you don't have to be an asshole0.99
01:07:42.300nobody's saying be mean or insulting when your professor says oh it's absolutely true that men0.99
01:07:48.400can menstruate then be sufficiently armed and courageous to stand up and say professor what
01:07:54.000what do you mean by men can menstruate explain that to me like i'm a five-year-old so don't
01:07:59.800diffuse the responsibility on a few broad shoulders right a lot of i'll give you a great example to
01:08:06.340that which this will be the first time that i explain it i say it publicly so you're getting
01:08:10.160an exclusive i receive i receive so usually the the most common email i receive from fans
01:08:16.060is dear dr sad very very nice words for a few paragraphs and then the last sentence
01:08:22.840is if you decide to read this letter on your show please don't mention my name and so then i write
01:08:30.080back i go dear mr so-and-so thank you for your very kind words i'm very touched by them
01:08:35.060don't you think that the last sentence in your email is precisely why we are in this current
01:08:41.080position now and that oftentimes will get them to think oh my god you're right well just a few
01:08:46.820days ago I received an email from a professor who was saying hey I appreciate how much you love
01:08:55.000Lionel Messi and you're so right he is the greatest soccer player ever and here's some
01:09:00.600additional data whatever he laid out a whole case for you know why it is absolutely the case that
01:09:07.040Lionel Messi is the greatest player and then guess what his last sentence of his email was Gary
01:09:13.360what's that if you decide to you know read this email on your show please don't mention my name
01:09:23.540now why am I saying this to you Gary why are you getting this exclusive1.00
01:09:27.560he wasn't telling me i agree with you that islam is dangerous but i'm afraid of muslims so0.99
01:09:36.320therefore please don't mention my name he so lacked courage that he wasn't willing to have0.99
01:09:44.540his name associated with the fact that he had an opinion about who was the greatest soccer player
01:09:53.540ever i mean is there a greater manifestation of cowardice than being so what are you afraid of
01:10:02.820you're afraid that maybe the next guy who serves as an editor to a journal that you're sending
01:10:09.260your paper to might be a ronaldo fan and if you were to god forbid be known as someone who sent
01:10:16.820got sad an email about messy he might be to what extent can your cowardice go well it apparently
01:10:24.960it can go to that extent so what i implore people to do is if the silent majority all of whom
01:10:33.260detest this stuff but are all cowed into silence for their own idiosyncratic reasons0.98
01:10:39.960were to stand up tall and say basta no more we're done with this bullshit the problem will go away0.99
01:10:48.220by next tuesday but the monsters are counting on the fact that each of us will diffuse the1.00
01:10:54.940responsibility onto god sad so that the monster pac-man can come and keep eating us activate
01:11:01.640your inner honey badger and we will have another 250 years to celebrate the united states that's
01:11:07.900right. Well, you know, our founders were willing to risk their lives, their fortunes, their
01:11:13.160reputations, their honor to fight for this country. And right now we're just too afraid to get some
01:11:20.200mean comments back when lives are being perpetuated and we're not, we're like, we're scared to
01:11:25.380challenge them. Folks, like we can't, with what's going on here in the United States and really the
01:11:30.300world on social media, like we can give lies and false narratives no quarter. Like we should be
01:11:36.700attacking those at every chance because it will metastasize. And you as Americans,
01:11:42.500you need to have the courage because it's your duty to challenge those. And if you get a couple
01:11:48.760thumbs downs or some mean comments back, you'll survive. And matter of fact, it's going to
01:11:54.100embolden you. You're going to continue to develop a muscle that will embolden you like, nope,
01:11:59.280this is what's going to happen. You got to be the tenacious honey badger and fight back in this