The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - Suicidal Empathy - My Lecture at the University of Chicago (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_913)

00:00:00.000 Guys, so I'm currently at the Old Miss, so I'm no longer in Canada, I'm a political refugee from Canada.

00:00:10.160 So first I wanted to say that it's great to be at the University of Chicago because I'm reading right now a book by a biography on Thomas Sowell.

00:00:20.720 Of course Thomas Sowell was at the University of Chicago, so it's wonderful, it's serendipitous that both these things would be happening.

00:00:27.120 So I want to give you a bit of a background to how I got into studying rationality, and then parasitic mind, and then suicidal empathy.

00:00:36.360 My doctoral training is actually in studying axiomatic rationality, a la Kahneman and Tenerife, for those of you who, and as a matter of fact, one of my former professors at Cornell, who then won the Nobel Prize in 2017, was Dick Taylor, with whom I studied all of this stuff.

00:00:55.920 So axiomatic rationality would be, if I prefer card A to card B, and I prefer card B to card C, it has to be that I prefer card A to card C.

00:01:04.120 If I don't do that, I'm being intransitive, therefore I'm being irrational.

00:01:07.780 Or, if I tell you that a hamburger is 90% fat-free or 10% fat, they are isomorphic statements, and yet people will judge them as being different.

00:01:18.640 And the third example, if I ask you to evaluate options A and B separately or together, it should still yield the same preference.

00:01:29.100 So if I prefer A in one version, I should prefer A in the other, and yet people have reversal of choices.

00:01:35.820 And so my original training was in studying rationality within this very restrained sense of rationality, axiomatic rationality.

00:01:44.240 But then how do you explain the irrationality of saying that women too, and men too can menstruate, men can bear children, mathematics is white supremacy?

00:01:56.800 That can't fit axiomatic rationality.

00:01:59.660 There must be something else that leads otherwise reasonable people to have such insane beliefs.

00:02:05.840 And so this led, I want to give you sort of a background first, like a 30,000 page view, this led to two books.

00:02:13.440 This is not the actual book cover of Suicidal Empathy, but I like it because hashtag sheep for wolves, hashtag queers for Palestine, hashtag geese for foie gras, right? 0.76

00:02:25.640 And so the reason why these two books go well together is because this book, the yellow one, speaks to what happens to our cognitive system when it is parasitized, whereas the follow-up looks at what happens to our emotional system when it is parasitized.

00:02:44.240 For me to be able to completely hijack your ability to reason, I need to both parasitize your cognitive and emotional system, and then I've got you.

00:02:53.560 Now, what's the background?

00:02:56.260 How did I sort of develop the framework for applying neural parasitology to these ideas, these bad ideas?

00:03:04.720 So on the top, you have the spider wasp.

00:03:07.720 The spider wasp is much smaller than the spider that it parasitizes.

00:03:11.240 It stings it, rendering it hapless, takes it to its burrow, in vivo, lays its eggs on it,

00:03:21.080 and then, as the offsprings hatch, they eat it in vivo.

00:03:25.500 Well, political correctness is akin to the spider wasp saying, right?

00:03:29.300 We all walk to the abyss of infinite lunacy, nodding our heads, yes, yes, men too can menstruate, right? 0.88

00:03:36.040 Of course, many of you have heard of Toxoplasma Gandhi, which can parasitize human minds,

00:03:40.940 but the classic example would be the baus, which should have an evolved fear of cats.

00:03:46.940 When it is parasitized by Toxoplasma Gandhi, it becomes sexually attracted to the cat's

00:03:51.320 urine, which is not a good making preference to have.

00:03:55.400 I'll skip this one.

00:03:56.600 It's another, it's a neuroparasite that affects ungulates, but this one is a really good one 1.00

00:04:01.540 because a lot of my terms end up going viral.

00:04:04.100 And so now, if you want to hear me say, oh, look at this wood cricket, you'll now know

00:04:09.660 where it's coming from.

00:04:11.640 The wood cricket abhors water.

00:04:14.060 It wants nothing to do with water.

00:04:16.020 But when it is parasitized by a hairworm, the hairworm needs the wood cricket to jump into

00:04:21.540 the water in order for it to complete its super productive cycle.

00:04:25.300 And therefore, once it is parasitized, it loses its fear of water and is perfectly happy

00:04:31.100 to commit suicide, hence you'll see how we then come to suicidal empathy in a few minutes.

00:04:39.120 Now, already the book is not out yet.

00:04:42.720 Suicidal empathy is not out yet, but there's already been a million hit pieces on me.

00:04:48.020 I am the Jewish puppeteer behind Elon Musk who's trying to usher a dark world where empathy

00:04:55.920 is eradicated.

00:04:57.620 And that's the kind of stuff you're up against when you do the kinds of things.

00:05:01.100 Well, of course, that's not true.

00:05:03.560 Empathy is an evolved virtue.

00:05:07.160 We are a human species, a social species.

00:05:11.580 It makes perfect sense for us to have cognitive empathy, theory of mind, emotional empathy.

00:05:17.060 But like Aristotle explained to us several thousand years ago, all good things in moderation

00:05:24.320 to the right people in the right amount, to the right context, and so on.

00:05:30.440 So, in my previous book, happiness book, I have a whole chapter on being put with you.

00:05:35.900 It turns out that it's probably the most universal law that you could think of.

00:05:39.580 It applies at the neuronal level, individual level, ecological level, economic level.

00:05:45.200 Too little of something is not good.

00:05:46.980 Too much of something is not good.

00:05:48.760 Life is about finding the sweet spot.

00:05:51.620 Yes?

00:05:52.040 Let's apply it to empathy.

00:05:53.140 You don't have any empathy. 1.00

00:05:55.540 You're a psychopath. 1.00

00:05:56.680 You have too much empathy. 1.00

00:05:58.400 You have my next book called suicidal empathy.

00:06:01.340 Okay.

00:06:03.960 Let me give you a bit of the framework I use to explain how suicidal empathy will come about.

00:06:10.980 I argue that it is a maladaptive misfiring of an otherwise adaptive process.

00:06:18.400 So, that's a mouthful.

00:06:19.360 So, let me give you a concrete example.

00:06:20.940 OCD is a debilitating condition, right?

00:06:26.600 But it is rooted in an adaptive process.

00:06:30.020 Earlier today, I had some stomach issues, and then Dorian didn't quite shake my hand.

00:06:34.700 I go, it's okay.

00:06:35.440 No, no, no, no.

00:06:37.580 And it's not a virus, but sometimes when I travel, I have stomach issues.

00:06:41.320 It makes perfect evolutionary sense for him to have that reticence.

00:06:45.060 If he had seen me sneezing into my hand, and then I go to shape it,

00:06:48.860 he might then go and wash his hand discreetly because he doesn't want to catch my cold.

00:06:54.120 So, washing your hands, scamming the environment for environmental threats,

00:06:57.520 makes perfect evolutionary sense.

00:07:00.060 Sitting for eight hours, washing your hands so that you can't make it to work,

00:07:04.840 so that your skin is falling off and it's cold in hot water,

00:07:07.880 that becomes maladaptive.

00:07:10.280 Let's take another example.

00:07:12.320 Compulsive biting, in a psychiatric sense, is an actual psychiatric dysfunction.

00:07:17.140 It largely afflicts women. 0.91

00:07:19.020 But it doesn't afflict women in a way that they hoard anything. 0.90

00:07:22.920 They don't hoard lawnmowers.

00:07:24.480 They don't hoard, you know, whatever, cameras.

00:07:30.660 They hoard beautification products.

00:07:33.540 So, you take a process that would have been adaptive,

00:07:36.680 which is to go out and to beautify yourself in the making market,

00:07:40.800 and now you render it hyperactive, and it becomes a psychiatric dysfunction.

00:07:45.960 The same thing applies to empathy.

00:07:48.300 Empathy is great, as I said, in the right place, right amount,

00:07:51.960 for the right people, and so on.

00:07:55.860 I also argue that suicidal empathy is, again, I call it civilizational seppuku.

00:08:03.440 Seppuku is the ritualistic suicide that not only samurai, 0.92

00:08:09.920 but largely samurai would engage in to kill themselves to redeem their honor.

00:08:15.620 They've done something to lose their honor,

00:08:17.460 and now the only path of redemption for me is to engage in this ritualistic suicide.

00:08:23.360 Well, you can imagine how suicidal empathy is exactly that.

00:08:28.340 We are a terrible society that is sitting on stolen land, 0.97

00:08:33.300 that is transphobic, that is white supremacy, 1.00

00:08:35.960 that hates black people, that hates everyone. 0.99

00:08:39.040 The only way for us to redeem ourselves is to commit civilizational seppuku. 0.99

00:08:44.820 And once you understand that mechanism,

00:08:48.320 you suddenly see that nearly every domestic and foreign policy

00:08:52.320 that has led to disastrous consequences in the West

00:08:55.480 stems from this dysregulated empathy.

00:08:59.560 All right, let's talk about some wood crickets in human form.

00:09:05.940 Of course, queers for palestines are wood crickets. 1.00

00:09:11.140 If you have a queer identity, more power to you. 1.00

00:09:15.640 Rah, rah, good for you. 1.00

00:09:17.680 Now, if you present yourself to the world in your queer identity, 1.00

00:09:21.280 then should you be putting all of your support behind Tel Aviv,

00:09:26.980 which is officially one of the most queer-friendly places in the world,

00:09:30.620 short of New York, San Francisco, Montreal, my hometown,

00:09:34.820 you'd be hard-pressed to find a city that is more queer-friendly than Tel Aviv,

00:09:37.900 or should you put your support behind a society

00:09:43.020 that has found an incredibly effective convergence mechanism?

00:09:47.400 It's a 100% proof conversion therapy.

00:09:49.940 It's a gravity-based conversion therapy.

00:09:52.900 We throw you off buildings and let your head splatter on the floor,

00:09:56.180 and then you are freed of your queerness.

00:09:58.980 But that's what happens when you are a wood cricket.

00:10:01.780 And then here we've got a wood cricket

00:10:04.920 that is very early in my forthcoming book,

00:10:07.680 it's been mentioned.

00:10:10.280 Carsten Nordahl-Hawken,

00:10:12.220 who describes himself in his words as a feminist and anti-racist, 0.95

00:10:16.300 had been sodomized and raped by a Somali immigrant. 0.98

00:10:19.080 He served, the rapist served a very small sentence 0.94

00:10:24.760 because in Norway they're very kind,

00:10:26.600 they don't believe in this really mean thing called the penal system.

00:10:31.320 And so after he served a few years,

00:10:33.540 then he was going to be deported.

00:10:35.880 This caused a huge conundrum for the one who had,

00:10:39.200 he had sodomized,

00:10:39.960 because now he felt guilty 0.96

00:10:41.920 that his rapist would not be able

00:10:44.780 to maximally flourish in Mogadishu.

00:10:48.040 That's called suicidal empathy.

00:10:50.480 Because I'm here as an evolutionary psychologist

00:10:52.360 to tell you that our emotional system

00:10:54.800 did not evolve with the calibration

00:10:57.280 to experience huge empathy for our southernizers.

00:11:00.380 Here is Amanda Pijera. 0.97

00:11:07.060 It was so unbelievable

00:11:09.020 that I had to do extra searches

00:11:11.300 to make sure that it wasn't a satirical piece.

00:11:14.680 So Amanda Pijera

00:11:15.980 is a white woman

00:11:18.740 who wanted to break the stereotype

00:11:21.600 of people of color ever being violent. 0.67

00:11:25.860 and it forced people of color out of violence

00:11:27.740 because of white supremacy.

00:11:29.540 But it turns out

00:11:30.600 that when she went to Haiti

00:11:31.860 to be with her black brothers,

00:11:35.520 one of them took her to the top of a building 1.00

00:11:38.320 and raped her all night. 0.99

00:11:40.480 I begged him to stop, 1.00

00:11:41.860 afraid he would kill me.

00:11:43.040 I freed him with him

00:11:43.820 to honor my commitment to Haiti,

00:11:45.520 to him as a brother

00:11:46.380 in the mutual struggle,

00:11:47.880 to an end to blah, blah, blah.

00:11:49.420 I even told him

00:11:50.580 that I was a Malcolm X scholar 0.89

00:11:52.600 and that didn't stop the rape.

00:11:54.860 Can you imagine that?

00:11:55.860 I mean, that's a foolproof way

00:12:00.480 to make sure you're never raped.

00:12:01.660 Just tell people 0.72

00:12:02.320 you're a Malcolm X scholar.

00:12:03.760 The rape ends.

00:12:05.200 And then later she says,

00:12:06.780 but I hold no ill will towards him

00:12:09.440 because she was enriched by the rape. 0.60

00:12:13.900 She's learned

00:12:14.720 and now she's more committed

00:12:16.240 to the fact

00:12:17.340 that it's really white supremacy

00:12:19.020 that caused the Haitian man 1.00

00:12:21.160 to rape her for eight hours. 0.99

00:12:24.860 Good stuff. 1.00

00:12:25.860 Here's one from a Jewish wood cricket.

00:12:30.480 This is Tam Nitzan.

00:12:32.320 Very empathetic.

00:12:34.440 Tam Nitzan was doing her PhD

00:12:36.780 at Hebrew University

00:12:38.200 in Jerusalem

00:12:39.520 and she wanted to demonstrate

00:12:41.240 that the IDF engages

00:12:43.020 in systematic rape 0.97

00:12:44.200 for Palestinian women. 0.99

00:12:45.280 She then goes out for her, 0.87

00:12:47.200 I think it was her doctoral dissertation.

00:12:49.320 She goes out to identify such cases,

00:12:52.060 both in interviewing Palestinian women

00:12:54.280 and through internal data from IDF.

00:12:57.700 So it was a very rigorous study.

00:12:59.980 To her utter dismay,

00:13:01.280 she found out that there wasn't

00:13:02.500 a single documented case

00:13:05.200 of rape of IDF soldiers

00:13:06.980 on Palestinian women. 1.00

00:13:08.560 Now,

00:13:09.240 did she alter then her position?

00:13:11.440 Was her hypothesis falsified?

00:13:14.240 No.

00:13:15.920 Has anybody ever heard me mention this before?

00:13:17.960 Anywhere?

00:13:18.260 I'm just wondering

00:13:20.240 because it really defies human reason.

00:13:24.640 It still demonstrated

00:13:26.340 how evil the IDF soldiers were

00:13:29.060 because imagine

00:13:30.540 that they didn't think

00:13:32.040 that those folks

00:13:34.560 were not worthy enough 1.00

00:13:35.700 to be raped. 1.00

00:13:36.440 How much must you be demonizing, 1.00

00:13:39.580 dehumanizing

00:13:40.420 the Palestinian women 0.97

00:13:42.280 to not even be considered 1.00

00:13:43.960 worthy of you raping them? 1.00

00:13:45.800 So if I rape Palestinian women, 1.00

00:13:48.380 I'm a terrible Jew. 1.00

00:13:50.280 If I don't rape Palestinian women, 1.00

00:13:53.360 I'm a terrible Jew. 1.00

00:13:54.680 We can't have 0.95

00:13:55.400 barbarian falsification there,

00:13:57.480 can we?

00:13:58.160 Because all roads lead to 0.99

00:14:00.300 Jews being bad. 1.00

00:14:01.780 This is from a 1.00

00:14:02.620 wood-trick of Jew. 1.00

00:14:06.440 Let me give you a few examples

00:14:07.840 from Canada

00:14:08.580 where I hailed

00:14:10.860 until I was rescued

00:14:11.880 by Ole Miss.

00:14:13.520 This is in,

00:14:14.720 NSERC is the equivalent

00:14:15.840 of let's say NSF

00:14:16.980 in the United States.

00:14:18.280 Yes?

00:14:18.900 This is at

00:14:19.780 University of Waterloo

00:14:21.040 which is akin to

00:14:22.720 MIT or Caltech.

00:14:26.480 It's a highly tech school

00:14:27.840 top engineering,

00:14:28.940 top computer science.

00:14:30.220 So in there,

00:14:31.920 computer science school,

00:14:33.080 by the way,

00:14:33.620 my background

00:14:34.840 is in computer science,

00:14:36.440 and mathematics.

00:14:38.880 They have two positions

00:14:39.840 open for endowed chairs

00:14:41.760 by the Canadian government.

00:14:43.220 So this is the

00:14:43.820 most prestigious professorship.

00:14:46.120 Position one

00:14:46.840 in all areas

00:14:47.660 of artificial intelligence

00:14:48.680 because artificial intelligence

00:14:49.900 is now a really hot thing.

00:14:52.200 Yes?

00:14:53.060 This is not

00:14:53.800 God's satire.

00:14:55.740 This is a screenshot

00:14:56.660 of the actual

00:14:57.800 call

00:14:58.300 for applications.

00:15:00.200 The call is open

00:15:02.260 only to qualified individuals

00:15:03.820 who self-identify

00:15:05.180 as women,

00:15:05.920 transgender,

00:15:06.800 gender-filled, 1.00

00:15:07.500 non-binary,

00:15:08.220 or two-spirit.

00:15:09.540 Alan Turing,

00:15:11.280 who, yes,

00:15:12.080 he was gay,

00:15:13.000 but was none

00:15:13.560 of those things,

00:15:14.500 could not get this job.

00:15:16.340 Alan Turing.

00:15:17.560 This is 21st century

00:15:19.000 in Canada

00:15:20.100 at one of the leading

00:15:21.320 universities.

00:15:22.820 Let's go on.

00:15:23.500 My own university

00:15:26.500 in Canada,

00:15:29.320 its top

00:15:30.160 objective

00:15:31.760 in its five-year

00:15:32.780 mission statement

00:15:33.680 is to decolonize

00:15:36.120 and to indigenize

00:15:37.720 the entire

00:15:39.180 curriculum.

00:15:40.600 You study

00:15:41.220 distribution

00:15:41.960 of prime numbers,

00:15:43.700 decolonize that,

00:15:44.660 that's all.

00:15:46.080 I study

00:15:46.940 evolutionary psychology,

00:15:48.540 psychology of decision-making,

00:15:50.320 consumer psychology.

00:15:51.420 I have to decolonize

00:15:53.200 and indigenize that.

00:15:55.920 I don't do that.

00:15:57.760 That's why

00:15:58.160 I'm like,

00:15:58.460 what am I doing this right now?

00:16:00.380 Here's another one.

00:16:01.620 I don't know

00:16:02.020 if you can read it.

00:16:02.840 This is also

00:16:03.340 at Victoria.

00:16:04.540 Received a huge grant

00:16:06.000 to decolonize

00:16:08.000 light.

00:16:09.380 So the physics

00:16:10.440 optics

00:16:11.860 has to be

00:16:13.300 decolonized.

00:16:14.780 You could,

00:16:15.200 for example,

00:16:15.700 study it using

00:16:16.540 indigenous knowledge,

00:16:18.240 tribal dance.

00:16:19.480 That could be a way

00:16:20.380 to study life.

00:16:21.660 Don't be an 1.00

00:16:22.160 asshole 1.00

00:16:22.520 and a racist. 1.00

00:16:26.960 Posture debt

00:16:27.700 is very much

00:16:29.160 driven by suicidal

00:16:30.000 empathy.

00:16:30.620 It comes from

00:16:31.060 Chapter 6

00:16:31.760 of the Parasitic Mind.

00:16:33.740 This is the running

00:16:34.540 counter as of

00:16:35.300 a few days ago

00:16:36.000 when I updated

00:16:36.660 the slide.

00:16:37.680 48,442

00:16:39.980 Islamic terror 0.96

00:16:41.320 attacks

00:16:41.860 since 9-11

00:16:42.640 alone

00:16:43.140 in nearly 70

00:16:44.180 countries.

00:16:45.020 And that's

00:16:45.380 an underestimate.

00:16:46.340 There are other

00:16:46.820 databases

00:16:47.380 where that number

00:16:48.460 is closer

00:16:48.880 to 65

00:16:49.740 hours.

00:16:51.060 Yes?

00:16:52.180 But very,

00:16:53.080 very smart

00:16:53.580 professors,

00:16:54.340 not unlike the

00:16:54.980 ones that would

00:16:55.400 be at the

00:16:55.760 University of

00:16:56.240 Chicago,

00:16:57.200 have actually

00:16:57.800 explained to us

00:16:58.760 that it doesn't

00:16:59.760 stem from what

00:17:00.920 the terrorists

00:17:01.620 tell you it

00:17:02.920 stems from,

00:17:03.740 when they

00:17:04.280 exactly pull

00:17:05.540 the exact

00:17:06.740 Quranic edicts 1.00

00:17:08.040 that justify

00:17:08.920 why they're

00:17:09.480 doing it.

00:17:10.880 And by the way,

00:17:11.860 none of these

00:17:12.420 are satirical.

00:17:13.660 These are ones

00:17:14.340 where I can give

00:17:15.160 you the references

00:17:15.780 to me.

00:17:16.440 I'll just

00:17:16.840 mention a few

00:17:17.600 for you.

00:17:19.480 I bet you

00:17:20.520 didn't know

00:17:21.380 that the

00:17:22.480 Belgian Islamic

00:17:24.380 terrorist a few 0.96

00:17:25.480 years ago

00:17:26.120 when they

00:17:26.580 screamed Allahu 0.98

00:17:27.720 Akbar as they 1.00

00:17:28.460 killed many

00:17:28.920 people,

00:17:29.740 it was actually

00:17:30.560 due to lack

00:17:31.960 of adequate

00:17:32.660 exposure to

00:17:34.620 art.

00:17:35.820 So for example,

00:17:37.480 if you have

00:17:38.300 children that

00:17:39.280 are not exposed

00:17:40.100 to enough

00:17:40.660 Wadidniani,

00:17:42.400 Shaddal,

00:17:43.100 and maybe

00:17:43.460 throw in some

00:17:44.200 Provinci,

00:17:45.400 they're likely

00:17:46.960 to join ISIS.

00:17:48.540 So you've got

00:17:49.020 to take them

00:17:49.420 to the museum.

00:17:50.720 It turns out

00:17:51.440 that it's due

00:17:52.000 to climate change

00:17:53.060 as the science

00:17:54.860 guide Bill Nye

00:17:56.060 explained to us.

00:17:57.360 Right?

00:17:57.940 So it turns out

00:17:58.880 that the

00:17:59.200 Bataclan terror

00:18:00.620 attack in Paris

00:18:02.240 was due to

00:18:03.640 lack of solar

00:18:04.460 panels.

00:18:04.900 This is not

00:18:05.400 satirical.

00:18:06.400 I can give you

00:18:07.120 the reference

00:18:07.660 to that.

00:18:08.480 That's what

00:18:08.920 ostrich,

00:18:09.460 by the way,

00:18:09.800 the ostrich

00:18:10.200 doesn't actually

00:18:10.820 do this.

00:18:11.320 It's become a

00:18:11.840 metaphor for

00:18:12.860 denying reality.

00:18:14.200 But why

00:18:14.980 are you

00:18:15.440 having that

00:18:16.220 reflex?

00:18:16.960 Because you

00:18:17.560 are suicidally

00:18:18.500 empathetic.

00:18:20.000 Because it 0.90

00:18:20.460 would be

00:18:20.860 gauche

00:18:21.380 for you

00:18:22.320 to argue

00:18:22.960 that it

00:18:23.660 might be

00:18:24.220 linked to

00:18:24.700 a particular

00:18:25.240 set of

00:18:25.860 religious

00:18:26.220 beliefs.

00:18:26.820 That wouldn't

00:18:27.380 be kind.

00:18:28.440 It wouldn't

00:18:28.760 be compassionate.

00:18:30.020 Nice people

00:18:30.620 don't do that.

00:18:31.800 So you come up

00:18:32.440 with endless

00:18:32.940 other explanations,

00:18:34.980 many of

00:18:35.640 which are

00:18:36.680 generated

00:18:37.220 by professors.

00:18:38.100 professors.

00:18:41.660 This is up

00:18:43.720 and down

00:18:44.160 England.

00:18:46.020 Up and down

00:18:47.020 England for

00:18:47.780 the past

00:18:48.200 30 years.

00:18:49.480 Lower end

00:18:50.220 of the

00:18:50.540 estimates,

00:18:51.200 250,000.

00:18:52.920 Upper end

00:18:53.560 of the

00:18:53.860 estimates,

00:18:54.520 up to

00:18:54.820 about a

00:18:55.200 million

00:18:55.560 British

00:18:56.300 white girls 0.98

00:18:57.160 have been 1.00

00:18:57.980 raped.

00:18:59.760 Not 0.68

00:19:00.240 exclusively

00:19:01.420 by, but

00:19:02.560 by an

00:19:03.160 extraordinarily

00:19:04.060 greater

00:19:04.880 statistical

00:19:05.440 probability

00:19:06.200 of men

00:19:07.100 that come

00:19:07.540 from one

00:19:08.080 particular

00:19:08.560 background.

00:19:09.560 I'm just

00:19:09.900 going to

00:19:10.140 read you

00:19:10.480 here a

00:19:10.860 few of

00:19:11.200 the names.

00:19:12.100 Muhammad 0.63

00:19:12.480 Ilfaz,

00:19:13.460 Muhammad 0.63

00:19:13.840 Azim,

00:19:14.900 Mansur

00:19:15.320 Hassan,

00:19:16.280 Muhammad 0.63

00:19:16.680 Akram,

00:19:17.720 Niyaz

00:19:18.100 Ahmed,

00:19:18.980 Muhammad 0.63

00:19:19.300 Imran

00:19:19.880 Ibrard. 0.85

00:19:21.460 I put

00:19:22.060 this exact

00:19:22.860 figure up

00:19:23.500 on my

00:19:23.860 social media

00:19:24.540 and I

00:19:25.600 said I'm

00:19:26.080 not smart

00:19:26.680 enough.

00:19:27.380 I don't

00:19:27.640 have the

00:19:28.080 big data

00:19:28.840 analytic

00:19:29.380 abilities

00:19:30.000 to tie

00:19:31.080 this

00:19:31.360 together.

00:19:31.960 Can

00:19:32.080 someone

00:19:32.380 tell me

00:19:33.020 what

00:19:33.720 unifies

00:19:34.800 these?

00:19:36.420 You know

00:19:37.140 what the

00:19:37.380 answer

00:19:37.620 was?

00:19:38.880 Jews.

00:19:41.080 But it

00:19:41.860 wasn't

00:19:42.180 satirical.

00:19:42.920 They weren't

00:19:43.300 playing along

00:19:43.860 and being

00:19:44.140 facetious.

00:19:45.060 It turns

00:19:45.740 out that

00:19:46.260 it's the

00:19:46.700 Jews

00:19:47.180 because it's

00:19:48.860 the Jews 0.99

00:19:49.400 that control

00:19:50.360 the immigration

00:19:51.540 policy of

00:19:52.800 Britain,

00:19:53.740 of France,

00:19:54.820 of Spain,

00:19:55.980 of Italy,

00:19:57.720 of Denmark,

00:19:58.760 of Sweden.

00:20:00.600 You 0.88

00:20:00.780 simpletons

00:20:01.420 might think

00:20:02.000 that it's

00:20:02.340 actually not

00:20:03.000 Jews,

00:20:03.400 but behind

00:20:04.100 them,

00:20:04.280 just like

00:20:04.700 I'm

00:20:04.880 behind

00:20:05.280 Elon

00:20:05.660 Musk 0.77

00:20:06.020 profiteering

00:20:06.860 him.

00:20:07.540 It's

00:20:07.840 the Jews

00:20:08.340 that are 0.99

00:20:08.660 to blame.

00:20:09.900 That's a

00:20:10.500 mixture of

00:20:11.060 parasitic

00:20:11.660 thinking and 0.95

00:20:13.420 suicidal

00:20:13.800 empathy.

00:20:14.760 And it

00:20:15.120 will bring

00:20:15.620 down the

00:20:16.000 West.

00:20:16.480 You just

00:20:16.860 don't have

00:20:17.340 the temporal

00:20:18.180 imagination

00:20:18.960 to look that

00:20:20.160 far ahead.

00:20:20.900 It won't

00:20:21.260 happen tomorrow.

00:20:22.180 It won't

00:20:22.480 happen in

00:20:22.940 five years.

00:20:23.800 It won't

00:20:24.060 happen in

00:20:24.480 50 years.

00:20:25.360 But inshallah,

00:20:26.340 it will

00:20:26.620 happen.

00:20:27.940 Or

00:20:28.420 wake up.

00:20:28.920 other

00:20:30.160 examples of

00:20:30.920 suicidal

00:20:31.220 empathy.

00:20:33.920 There was

00:20:34.400 a huge

00:20:35.600 prevalence

00:20:38.980 of

00:20:40.020 attacks

00:20:40.980 by

00:20:41.820 migrant

00:20:42.880 men

00:20:43.480 in

00:20:44.140 Germany

00:20:44.980 in

00:20:45.700 swimming

00:20:46.200 pools.

00:20:46.680 Okay?

00:20:48.520 The

00:20:48.940 German

00:20:49.520 municipality

00:20:51.000 came up

00:20:51.940 with

00:20:52.580 this is

00:20:53.400 not

00:20:53.620 satire.

00:20:54.960 It's

00:20:55.300 an

00:20:55.560 overweight

00:20:56.420 German

00:20:57.240 redheaded 1.00

00:20:58.040 woman 0.99

00:20:58.520 that is

00:20:59.560 sexually 0.61

00:21:00.160 abusing 0.64

00:21:01.360 a

00:21:02.360 one-legged

00:21:03.880 black 0.98

00:21:06.040 child. 0.92

00:21:07.360 Even

00:21:07.740 my

00:21:08.240 satire

00:21:08.940 is not

00:21:09.340 as

00:21:09.520 good as

00:21:10.020 this.

00:21:12.320 That's

00:21:13.000 suicidal

00:21:13.440 empathy.

00:21:15.340 Do you

00:21:15.600 know the

00:21:15.860 middle

00:21:16.040 one?

00:21:16.680 Yeah,

00:21:19.900 the

00:21:20.020 finish.

00:21:20.760 Yes,

00:21:21.260 thank you.

00:21:22.260 It's the

00:21:22.740 non-no

00:21:23.360 square dance,

00:21:24.360 which,

00:21:24.620 by the

00:21:24.800 way,

00:21:25.020 I made

00:21:25.420 viral by

00:21:26.040 instituting

00:21:26.880 with the

00:21:27.180 help of

00:21:27.480 my wife,

00:21:28.200 my own

00:21:28.660 normal dance,

00:21:29.540 when she

00:21:30.200 was saying

00:21:30.680 that I

00:21:30.960 looked

00:21:31.180 really

00:21:31.420 hard,

00:21:31.860 and I

00:21:32.000 said,

00:21:32.280 don't

00:21:32.500 touch

00:21:32.740 me

00:21:32.920 in

00:21:33.020 my

00:21:33.160 normal

00:21:33.440 square.

00:21:35.040 The

00:21:35.560 Finns

00:21:35.960 came up

00:21:36.420 with

00:21:36.580 a viral

00:21:37.160 TikTok

00:21:37.600 clip

00:21:38.160 explaining

00:21:39.080 to

00:21:39.380 the

00:21:39.740 noble

00:21:40.180 migrants

00:21:40.780 who

00:21:41.000 were

00:21:41.240 gang 0.89

00:21:41.680 raping 1.00

00:21:42.100 them,

00:21:42.720 that

00:21:42.920 when

00:21:43.120 they

00:21:43.340 tell

00:21:43.600 you

00:21:43.820 don't

00:21:44.200 approach

00:21:44.660 my

00:21:44.900 non-no

00:21:45.320 thing,

00:21:46.620 they

00:21:46.820 just 1.00

00:21:47.060 fuck 1.00

00:21:47.320 away. 1.00

00:21:49.700 Then

00:21:50.180 you've

00:21:50.420 got,

00:21:50.740 of course,

00:21:51.200 refugees

00:21:51.680 welcome,

00:21:52.320 he would

00:21:52.600 fare well

00:21:53.080 with those

00:21:53.440 refugees,

00:21:54.360 we've

00:21:54.680 got this

00:21:55.300 minister

00:21:56.680 that says

00:21:57.700 that we

00:21:57.980 are all

00:21:58.420 Muslims,

00:21:59.500 here we've

00:21:59.960 got this

00:22:00.340 guy who

00:22:00.680 killed

00:22:00.920 the 0.93

00:22:01.220 young

00:22:02.020 Ukrainian

00:22:02.620 woman 0.99

00:22:02.980 who's

00:22:03.400 been

00:22:03.540 arrested

00:22:03.840 a million

00:22:04.200 times,

00:22:04.760 because

00:22:05.080 you have

00:22:06.060 to give

00:22:06.320 people a

00:22:06.740 second

00:22:06.960 chance,

00:22:07.420 and by

00:22:07.640 second

00:22:07.920 chance,

00:22:08.360 it

00:22:08.460 means

00:22:08.720 187th

00:22:10.140 chance,

00:22:11.020 right?

00:22:11.620 And

00:22:11.820 then here,

00:22:12.580 of course,

00:22:13.900 you shouldn't

00:22:14.380 be arrested,

00:22:15.000 you shouldn't

00:22:15.640 be dealing

00:22:16.960 with the

00:22:17.320 homeless

00:22:17.600 crisis,

00:22:18.640 because they

00:22:19.120 don't have

00:22:19.580 personal

00:22:19.940 agency,

00:22:20.800 none of

00:22:21.860 the reasons

00:22:23.020 why they

00:22:23.520 are in

00:22:23.840 the current

00:22:24.220 lot,

00:22:24.540 that they

00:22:24.800 are,

00:22:25.220 stems from

00:22:25.600 their

00:22:25.800 internal

00:22:26.380 locus of

00:22:27.040 control,

00:22:27.480 it's all

00:22:27.960 due to

00:22:28.420 external,

00:22:29.640 therefore,

00:22:30.300 by punishing

00:22:31.060 the homeless,

00:22:31.900 or by punishing

00:22:32.620 repeat

00:22:33.060 felons,

00:22:33.760 you're only

00:22:34.220 re-victimizing

00:22:35.140 them,

00:22:35.460 since they

00:22:35.960 are the

00:22:36.340 victims,

00:22:36.860 that's what

00:22:37.220 suicidal

00:22:37.540 activity is.

00:22:38.260 I'll do

00:22:41.460 probably

00:22:41.720 another three

00:22:42.180 minutes,

00:22:42.480 so we'll

00:22:42.640 have maybe

00:22:42.880 five minutes

00:22:43.460 for questions.

00:22:44.440 Additional

00:22:44.760 examples of

00:22:45.400 suicidal

00:22:45.720 empathy,

00:22:46.660 well,

00:22:46.920 of course,

00:22:47.760 the U.S.

00:22:48.560 most recent

00:22:49.120 addition to

00:22:49.820 the Supreme

00:22:50.700 Court,

00:22:51.500 we've got

00:22:51.960 this beautiful

00:22:52.840 woman, 1.00

00:22:54.060 Dylan Mulvaney,

00:22:56.380 and we've got

00:22:56.860 a stunning

00:22:57.500 woman, 1.00

00:22:58.420 Leah Thomas,

00:23:00.180 that until

00:23:01.140 15 minutes

00:23:01.980 ago,

00:23:02.480 the 117

00:23:03.620 billion people

00:23:04.460 that had

00:23:04.860 lived on

00:23:05.320 Earth,

00:23:05.580 that's

00:23:06.020 an actual

00:23:06.600 real estimate,

00:23:08.220 we're able

00:23:08.860 to fully

00:23:09.640 and unequivocally

00:23:11.060 navigate through

00:23:12.040 the very

00:23:12.620 difficult

00:23:13.140 conundrum

00:23:13.720 of what

00:23:14.460 constitutes a

00:23:15.280 male and

00:23:15.660 female phenotype,

00:23:16.800 but now,

00:23:17.720 through progressive

00:23:18.380 science,

00:23:19.640 we know that's

00:23:20.240 no longer true,

00:23:21.380 and that's why

00:23:21.840 we're having

00:23:22.300 these really

00:23:22.780 important debates

00:23:23.640 of how do we

00:23:24.480 know what's

00:23:24.960 a male or

00:23:25.360 female,

00:23:26.380 and then here,

00:23:27.320 of course,

00:23:27.740 it turns out

00:23:28.280 that being

00:23:28.720 overweight is

00:23:30.160 really an

00:23:30.880 attack,

00:23:31.480 it's a form

00:23:32.120 of white

00:23:32.540 supremacy,

00:23:33.260 just if you

00:23:33.880 say,

00:23:34.740 if you're

00:23:35.200 a physician

00:23:35.680 and you

00:23:36.140 tell your

00:23:36.700 patient,

00:23:38.060 you're 40

00:23:38.440 pounds overweight,

00:23:39.220 you need to

00:23:39.620 lose weight,

00:23:40.680 this book

00:23:41.400 explains to you

00:23:41.960 that reflex

00:23:43.800 to medicalize

00:23:45.540 and pathologize

00:23:46.520 obesity stems

00:23:47.680 from the

00:23:48.060 slave trade,

00:23:49.200 and then in

00:23:49.760 this case,

00:23:51.080 no empathetic

00:23:52.360 person that

00:23:53.320 cares about

00:23:53.840 Mother Earth

00:23:54.480 would ever

00:23:55.420 go through

00:23:56.160 the terrible

00:23:58.300 trajectory of

00:24:00.280 actually considering

00:24:01.040 having children,

00:24:02.760 and therefore,

00:24:03.360 that's why

00:24:03.820 many people

00:24:04.980 are for

00:24:05.800 going and

00:24:08.040 having children.

00:24:09.160 So to end

00:24:09.800 it,

00:24:10.300 how to save

00:24:10.840 the West,

00:24:11.220 and this is

00:24:11.580 not a full

00:24:12.220 exhaustive list,

00:24:13.420 but a good

00:24:13.860 one,

00:24:15.760 and it's

00:24:16.480 how to save

00:24:16.980 the West

00:24:17.300 and how to

00:24:17.680 save the

00:24:17.980 universities,

00:24:18.560 if you like,

00:24:18.980 pursue knowledge

00:24:19.640 unencumbered by

00:24:20.400 ideological

00:24:20.960 activism,

00:24:22.400 no knowledge

00:24:22.920 is forbidden

00:24:23.480 and gathered

00:24:23.960 objectively

00:24:24.520 using the

00:24:25.000 scientific method,

00:24:26.280 freedom of

00:24:26.760 speech,

00:24:27.220 freedom of

00:24:27.580 inquiry,

00:24:28.100 and the

00:24:28.220 pursuit of

00:24:28.680 truth are

00:24:29.520 deontological

00:24:30.460 principles,

00:24:31.180 they're not

00:24:31.520 consequentialist

00:24:32.660 principles,

00:24:33.140 and the

00:24:33.980 three,

00:24:34.400 a just

00:24:34.740 society

00:24:35.240 is rooted

00:24:35.760 in the

00:24:36.160 ethos

00:24:36.580 of a

00:24:36.860 meritocracy,

00:24:38.100 as E.O.

00:24:38.860 Wilson famously

00:24:40.060 explained to

00:24:40.760 us,

00:24:41.300 he's an

00:24:41.600 entomologist,

00:24:42.780 when he was

00:24:43.260 asked about

00:24:44.000 what do you

00:24:45.220 think,

00:24:45.560 Professor

00:24:45.840 Wilson,

00:24:46.280 about

00:24:46.520 socialism

00:24:47.200 slash

00:24:47.660 communism,

00:24:48.420 congratulations,

00:24:49.180 by the way,

00:24:49.560 I'm

00:24:49.640 Namdani,

00:24:50.460 looks like a

00:24:50.940 really exciting

00:24:51.580 guy for

00:24:52.120 playing a

00:24:52.440 capitalist 0.99

00:24:52.760 silly 1.00

00:24:53.340 socialist 1.00

00:24:54.240 hellhole, 0.98

00:24:55.320 well,

00:24:56.460 he explained

00:24:57.860 to us,

00:24:58.220 E.O.

00:24:58.420 Wilson,

00:24:58.760 he said,

00:24:59.200 great idea,

00:25:00.280 wrong species,

00:25:01.800 so it's

00:25:03.240 wonderful for

00:25:03.980 ants to be

00:25:04.720 communistic,

00:25:05.460 because they

00:25:05.880 actually have

00:25:06.520 a philogenic 0.82

00:25:07.060 history that

00:25:08.180 would have

00:25:08.480 promoted that

00:25:09.280 type of

00:25:09.700 communal

00:25:10.060 living,

00:25:10.840 human beings

00:25:11.420 are not

00:25:11.880 social ants,

00:25:13.380 number four,

00:25:14.360 proudly and

00:25:14.920 unequivocally

00:25:18.300 defend western

00:25:19.720 values,

00:25:20.780 there's nothing

00:25:21.240 racist of you

00:25:22.160 saying some

00:25:23.160 cultures are

00:25:23.800 superior to

00:25:24.420 others,

00:25:24.800 hence all

00:25:26.540 cultures,

00:25:27.080 religions are 1.00

00:25:27.680 not equal,

00:25:29.120 cultural

00:25:29.520 homophily

00:25:30.160 matters,

00:25:31.180 I gave a

00:25:31.700 talk recently

00:25:32.320 in Iceland

00:25:32.940 that I asked

00:25:33.740 them,

00:25:34.420 openly to the

00:25:35.080 audience,

00:25:35.800 I said,

00:25:36.160 you have about

00:25:37.500 400,000 people

00:25:38.580 here,

00:25:39.540 do you think

00:25:40.260 that if

00:25:40.600 150,000

00:25:42.120 Danes were

00:25:42.960 to be dropped

00:25:43.740 into Iceland

00:25:44.520 versus 150,000

00:25:46.680 people from

00:25:47.460 Waziristan,

00:25:48.660 do you think

00:25:49.240 there would be

00:25:49.760 a difference

00:25:50.420 in their

00:25:50.820 capacity to

00:25:51.520 assimilate?

00:25:52.280 You should

00:25:52.600 have seen

00:25:52.980 the squirming

00:25:54.200 and women

00:25:55.000 that they

00:25:55.400 were doing.

00:25:56.180 Everybody

00:25:56.580 knew the

00:25:57.100 answer,

00:25:57.680 but it

00:25:57.900 was mean

00:25:58.400 to say

00:25:58.840 it.

00:26:00.120 Number six,

00:26:01.400 exhibit zero

00:26:02.120 tolerance for

00:26:02.920 seditious belief

00:26:03.700 systems.

00:26:04.960 Number seven,

00:26:05.800 which is really

00:26:06.560 relevant to my

00:26:07.360 forthcoming book,

00:26:08.240 adaptive empathy

00:26:09.280 is wonderful,

00:26:11.340 suicidal empathy

00:26:12.380 will destroy

00:26:13.340 our civilization.

00:26:14.800 All ideas,

00:26:15.780 beliefs,

00:26:16.220 and ideologies

00:26:16.980 are open to

00:26:17.860 criticism,

00:26:18.600 debate,

00:26:19.120 mocking,

00:26:19.880 ridicule,

00:26:20.520 and other forms

00:26:21.240 and hopes

00:26:21.760 to present.

00:26:22.440 Thank you very

00:26:22.840 much.

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - November 09, 2025

Suicidal Empathy - My Lecture at the University of Chicago (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_913)

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