The Homeostasis of Victimology is a concept that I first introduced in my book, The Parasitic Mind, in which I describe the need for a "homeostatic level of victimology" in order to maintain the current state of our society. In this episode, I explain the concept of homeostasis and how it can be applied to the Trump administration and the upcoming election.
00:00:00.000So, today what I wanted to talk about is, well, several things related to the upcoming election in a few days.
00:00:08.760But specifically, I wanted to talk about a concept that I originally introduced in The Parasitic Mind,
00:00:17.580my 2020 book, where I talked about the homeostasis of victimology.
00:00:23.400And so, what I want to do first is read you a small, so this is on page 101 of The Parasitic Mind,
00:00:35.160because I'm going to set up the framework for explaining some of the unbelievably dishonest reactions that people are having to Donald Trump.
00:00:49.360And I'm going to use, as I said, the homeostatic model to explain it.
00:00:56.560So, this is from page 101, as I said, in The Parasitic Mind.
00:00:59.960The section is titled, The Homeostasis of Victimology.
00:01:05.480Bear with me as I provide a little background on the ubiquity of homeostasis, how we study it and its implications,
00:01:12.680because it will help illustrate an important point about victimology.
00:01:16.520Many biological and man-made systems are governed by processes that seek to maintain a set or optimal equilibrium level.
00:01:26.560For example, a room thermostat regulates the flow of cold or hot air such that a set temperature is maintained.
00:01:35.060The human body contains several such homeostatic systems,
00:01:38.920including processes that control one body temperature, glucose levels, and arterial pressure.
00:01:44.660Homeostatic systems are not restricted to physiological processes.
00:01:49.720Several influential psychological theories are based on the idea of homeostasis.
00:01:55.740The psychologist John Fletcher drew a parallel between physiological and psychological homeostasis.
00:02:02.120The rise of temper against an insult is not essentially different from the rise of temperature against infection.
00:02:11.500Both represent the attempts of an organism to maintain status.
00:02:19.000In the other, it is a social status that is to be maintained.
00:02:21.980Drive reduction theory posits that humans are compelled to reduce the discrepancy between a current state and a desired state in order to meet a physiological or psychological need.
00:02:36.040For example, when hungry or thirsty, an individual will to act to slake their hunger or thirst.
00:02:46.440Drive reduction theory can explain a very broad range of human phenomena.
00:02:51.820Homeostatic comparisons are also the key element in what is known as multiple discrepancies theory,
00:02:57.880which focuses on how people measure satisfaction with elements of their lives.
00:03:02.800For example, I might gauge the discrepancy, if any, between my current income and what I expect to have at this stage in my career.
00:03:11.160Or I could contrast my current income to that of my relevant peers.
00:03:16.100The bottom line is that there are multiple ways by which one might establish a discrepancy between a current and desired state
00:03:22.920and accordingly be motivated to close that gap.
00:03:27.280And then I go on explaining much more about what homeostasis is.
00:03:32.180And then I argue that the manner by which people increasingly define, you know, an aggression or a victimhood
00:03:44.640is precisely because they need to achieve a homeostatic level of victimology.
00:03:50.760You know, our society is hateful, it's misogynistic, it's evil, it's, it's, we're sitting on stolen land.
00:03:59.280And if you don't find that there are enough victimology stories,
00:04:03.460then you need to redefine what constitutes victimhood in order to maintain that homeostatic level of victimology.
00:04:12.480So here let me read one other quick thing.
00:16:53.000But he never used the words, I, Donald Trump, officially concede and admit that I have lost this election fairly and squarely.
00:17:06.220And by me not stating exactly the words in the sequence that Sam Harris, the Malibu meditator, who, by the way, look, he speaks with a lisp.
00:20:25.160I said, look, I, you know, that was, I didn't like the way I said that about, you know, because listen, maybe the guy is truly hurting in terms of his personal life.
00:20:33.280And in my view, it was a shitty thing for me to say that.
00:20:49.160It's a costly signal of your honesty to be willing.
00:20:53.480I mean, I have over a million followers on X to say, hey, I think I didn't act well.
00:20:58.620By the way, people started getting super angry at me, a lot more angry at me that I apologized to him because they were saying, oh, you shouldn't apologize to him.
00:21:05.400So, which basic, this is another lesson, just do what you think is right.
00:21:08.900Don't listen to what people think you should do in terms of what is right.
00:21:12.580But why am I telling this story is because I'm demonstrating to you that I walk the walk and talk the talk.
00:21:17.860If I feel that I've done something wrong, then I will stand up and apologize for it.
00:21:22.980And by the way, sometimes if I retweet something and it turns out to be wrong, people say, well, why don't you delete it?
00:21:28.420Well, I don't delete it because I want it to be publicly available that I then corrected the record.
00:21:34.680If I delete it, it's as if it never happened.
00:21:37.920Okay, so that's the level of purity and honesty that I abide by.
00:21:41.820So, Sam Harris and Bill Maher and all the rest of these guys could come out and say, you know what?
00:21:48.660There are many reasons why we may disagree with Trump.
00:21:53.600But in retrospect, yes, he's not a Hitler.
00:21:58.380He's not going to put people in front of a firing squad.
00:22:04.500And by the way, there are real consequences to speaking like that as per two assassination attempts.
00:22:09.840If you convince your huge audience that there is this guy who's running for president, who's going to eat your children, rape your women, and who's going to make Hitler look like a schoolgirl party.
00:22:21.940Well, then it's incumbent on you to go out and do the right thing morally, right?
00:22:27.080So, standing on top of your platform when you have a huge platform does come with responsibilities.
00:22:35.940I mean, as long as you don't incite violence and so on.
00:22:37.780But in this case, one can argue indirectly you're certainly inciting violence against Donald Trump by doubling down on the fact that he is, you know, worse than Hitler and worse than Osama bin Laden and so on.
00:22:50.600To give you another example of how ugly that trait is, when Sam Harris was saying all the things that he was saying about COVID, and then every single syllable that he uttered turned out to be wrong in terms of the actual reality.
00:23:13.740He went on, if you remember, I can't remember if it was, I don't think it was on trigonometry.
00:23:18.840I think it was on some show with some other guy that I don't know who he is, where he said, I'm paraphrasing, if everything that I had assumed had happened, and if the reality had been exactly opposite to what it turned out to be, then I would have been right.
00:23:38.880And therefore, I think it was perfectly reasonable that I took the position that I did.
00:23:44.620Just go and track it down in case you're thinking I'm being hyperbolic.
00:23:48.960He didn't say, in retrospect, every single one of my bullshit predictions turned out to be wrong, and my logic was faulty.
00:23:57.320I mean, literally every single syllable that came out of his mouth, I'm going to be nice, turned out to be incorrect.
00:24:08.920But hey, had it turned out the way that I had said it, then I would have been right.
00:24:15.260So, in my progressive lisp way in Malibu, I was right, to which I put out a sad truth clip, and I called it,
00:24:25.060if my grandmother had balls, we would have called her my grandfather.
00:24:30.040Or let me say to you, for those of you who like to hear it in Arabic,
00:26:15.940Oh, by the way, J-Lo came out a few days ago, you know, crying and, you know, emoting that, you know, you have to vote for Kamala Harris.
00:26:25.200And, of course, Professor Dr. J-Lo is the right person to offer such advice because she's a great judge of character as per, you know, her connection, her choosing Diddy as her soulmate once upon a time where she went apparently to those parties.
00:26:46.100So, don't listen to guys like, you know, Elon Musk and Bill Ackman and David Sachs, and if I may put myself in this category who say Trump is a much better, we're all idiots.
00:27:00.720Instead, listen to Rob Reiner, listen to Stephen King, listen to Barbara Streisand, listen to Scarlett Johansson, listen to J-Lo, listen to Bryan Cranston.
00:27:13.040They are the ones who really have done the heavy lifting when it comes to who is best for the United States as U.S. President.
00:27:21.860OK, so that's another one. I'm going to go back to a topic that I discussed many times.
00:27:29.120Some of you may have heard me mention this. It's getting drunk by smelling the cork of the wine bottle.
00:27:37.500Now, some of you have heard it. It's still worth re-hearing. Some of you have never heard it.
00:27:41.600So, let me explain what that saying means. It's, again, it's an Arabic saying, which I'm translating.
00:27:48.240When you say you get drunk by simply smelling the cork of the wine bottle, it means that you are of weak constituency.
00:27:58.820That means you don't have to actually, you know, drink the bottle before you get drunk.
00:28:03.540You simply take a whiff and you're already drunk.
00:28:06.520Now, of course, you apply that to your ability to think, right?
00:28:10.880If, and so this is how I apply it, right?
00:28:13.000So, if you ask someone, why are you voting for Kamala?
00:28:18.540Well, it's time. She's a woman. It's time. She smiles.
00:28:23.400She's happy. You know, Trump is grotesque. Trump is mean. He's vain, right?
00:28:30.340So, what you're doing is you're smelling the cork of the wine bottle
00:28:34.580and that you're using peripheral cosmetic cues to arrive at a judgment.
00:28:39.380You hate Trump because he's an aesthetic injury to you.
00:28:43.440You love Obama because he has a mellifluous voice and a radiant smile.
00:28:47.720Every single syllable that he's ever uttered or thought is pure, absolute bullshit.
00:28:53.780There is not a single semantic content in any verbal utterance that he's ever said.
00:29:00.720But, my God, he says it with such beautiful cadence of a Southern Baptist minister.
00:29:05.800Look, I'm getting drunk. You see, I'm getting drunk. I'm getting woozy.
00:29:08.400I'm going to get a DUI simply because I listened to his beautiful mellifluous voice, right?
00:32:36.980So, which party has trampled more on freedom of speech over the past 10 years?
00:32:40.920I mean, it is literally the case, people, that if you were a single-issue voter where First Amendment and freedom of speech is your most important issue,
00:32:50.140that would be already sufficient rational reason for you to vote for Donald Trump.
00:32:55.700Notwithstanding any other thing you might not like about him.
00:32:58.580So, I'm not questioning that he can be bombastic and so on and vain, right?
00:33:03.740But if you are, now, if I'm going to use the fancy term from my psychology of decision-making training,
00:33:10.860if you want to use the lexicographic rule, lexicographic rule simply means I will choose the alternative that scores best on my most important attribute.
00:33:19.460So, if my most important attribute is First Amendment, then I will choose Trump.
00:33:24.860If my most important attribute is immigration, then I will choose Trump.
00:33:28.260As I explained to Sam Harris in 2016, and I warned him that it was wrong for him and all of his progressive friends to be saying that, you know,
00:33:39.420only degenerates and deplorables and garbage people and idiots and low-content information voters,
00:33:46.380what kind of elitist is it to treat millions and millions of people as though they are degenerate idiots?
00:33:53.620Yes, but that's what it is when you are part of the anointed ones, to use the term of Thomas Sowell.
00:33:59.440Okay, so number one, which party has trampled more on freedom of speech over the past 10 years?
00:34:03.460Two, which party has been more lax in terms of the open borders?
00:34:07.740Which party is literally trying to import millions of illegal immigrants who then,
00:34:17.100the reciprocal agreement is that you will forevermore be indebted to us and vote for us
00:34:23.200so that we can create a super majority, one-party system in the United States?
00:37:58.940Which party tramples on the rights of biological females when it comes to allowing biological males into their athletic competitions, their dressing rooms, their prisons?
00:38:10.020So the Democrats are the party of women and Trump hates women?
00:38:14.600Who is letting in male prisoners to rape female prisoners?
00:38:21.200Who's letting in male swimmers in women's locker rooms so that, you know, the female swimmers can see the female penis of the male swimmer, who's a woman, because he calls himself Linda.
00:39:47.580Is the United States a socialist country or is the United States a capitalist country?
00:39:52.460Do we have any data from the past 100 years as to whether maximal flourishing of individuals, if not societies, happen under a capitalistic or a socialist government?
00:40:04.580But hey, don't let evidence get in the way of your preferred ideology.
00:40:09.120The only person that I have ever seen in public or private life that is dumber, maybe not dumber than Kamala Harris is Justin Trudeau.
00:40:30.800The only difference is that Kamala Harris is a lot more masculine than Justin Trudeau.
00:40:37.420It sounds like I'm trying to be funny, but they know nothing.
00:40:45.460Their shells, their craniums are filled with parasitized jello.
00:40:50.400That's who's going to lead the most important country in the world, the last bastion of freedom, a woman who learns lines that are straight out of socialism and communism.
00:41:04.420I will institute, you know, whatever, price controls and so on.
00:41:09.720I've already done a whole clip on that.
00:41:17.600It doesn't take a fancy professor to tell you that you're likely going to be influenced by the environment in which you've grown up.
00:41:26.220That's why Barack Obama is an asshole socialist, Marxist.
00:41:30.240That's why Kamala Harris is a Marxist socialist, because that's what she's been taught, right?
00:41:39.300It's not necessarily because she's innately evil, right?
00:41:42.260See, unlike all of the Democrats, I'm not purporting that Kamala Harris is dispositionally an evil person.
00:41:51.140She's astoundingly dumb, incredibly poorly read, knows nothing, can't think on her feet, can't utter a single sentence, can't have any emotional intelligence to connect with anybody.
00:42:04.240But she has some knee pad abilities, and that has allowed her to ascend the hierarchy by, wink, wink, descending the hierarchy, so to speak.
00:42:17.400And that has allowed her to potentially, in three days, hold the most important position in the world.
00:42:25.520Is Trump a perfect candidate? Absolutely not.
00:42:28.840Does he exemplify American values to an astoundingly higher level than Kamala?
00:43:48.540So if you care about safety, if you care about closing the borders, if you care about individual dignity and individual meritocracy, is the choice not clear?
00:45:15.380Now, it's not hard to explain why that is, because most professors are leftist Democrats.
00:45:21.480And therefore, they're going to be the ones who are spawning, promulgating all of the bullshit that comes out of the universities.
00:45:29.800But those bullshit ideas become our prime ministers and our presidents and our CEOs and our filmmakers and our songwriters and our journalists.
00:45:40.180So they chokehold all of the cultural creations and therefore all of the members of the Anointed Ones who have a progressive lisp.
00:45:51.560You see, now I'm speaking with a progressive lisp because I'm smarter than all of you assholes because you're all garbage.
00:45:58.020One of the reasons why I resonate with millions of people is because notwithstanding the fact that I'm a professor and I've got all those fancy titles and so on,
00:46:08.640I am a man of the people in that I don't talk down to people.
00:46:16.040As a matter of fact, as I've explained a million times, I prefer to receive a fan email from a trucker who goes from Toledo to Oregon and listens to my show and says he's found a new love for evolutionary psychology by listening on my show
00:46:32.980than if it were a smarmy colleague of mine who said that he read my paper and loved it.
00:46:37.860Not that I don't appreciate that, of course I do.
00:46:40.280But when you resonate with the average person, then your message is appealing.
00:46:48.180Most professors can't relate to the people down there.
00:46:52.260They can't relate to the farmers, to the welders, to the electricians, to the corrections officers, to the police officers.
00:46:59.440They're asshole, lowly people to the Democrats, right?
00:47:06.740They're the ones who do the heavy lifting in society so that people like me can have the opportunity to sit in the ivory tower and think and hopefully come up with good ideas.
00:49:08.240I dream that one day my daughter can live in a world where she's judged based on the content of her character and not the color of her skin.
00:49:23.220So let's suppose you're someone who is a fan of the ideals of Martin Luther King.
00:49:30.400The United States has a day that is reserved as a federal holiday for Martin Luther King because he exemplifies the best, the aspiration of what the American ethos should be.
00:49:56.820It's fucking unbelievable the level of degeneracy that I see in the United States.
00:50:05.920When I say the United States, it's everywhere.
00:50:07.980Where there are people, there is stupidity.
00:50:11.000That's why the quote attributed to Einstein, which I'm sure I will botch.
00:50:16.340There are only two things that I am assured of, you know, the infinite stupidity of the universe and the infinite stupidity of people.
00:50:25.500And I'm not so sure about the universe or something to that effect.
00:50:28.600Meaning that many, many brilliant people have remarked in various ways, sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, at how bafflingly stupid most people are.
00:50:39.800And I don't mean that as an elitist thing.
00:52:06.720Which party is more desirous of setting up a misinformation and disinformation board, an idea that is antithetical to the most basic tenets of the First Amendment?
00:52:16.640Do you remember when the Biden administration brought this woman to be the first czar of disinformation and misinformation?
00:52:23.020I mean, literally, the second that every American hears that the sitting administration is setting up a disinformation and misinformation board, that should be disqualifying to ever hold power again.
00:52:40.060It is contrary to the most fundamental principle of a free society.
00:52:47.120Who gets to choose what is misinformation and disinformation?
00:52:51.220The stating that the lab came from China, is that now misinformation, disinformation, or is it true?
00:52:57.660That the COVID vaccine protects you and you cannot spread it after you have, is that true or is that misinformation?
00:53:06.400That women can have nine-inch penises, is that true or is that misinformation?
00:53:11.220That women can, too, bear children, is that misinformation or disinformation or is it veridical?
00:53:16.520So, once you say that we need to set up a system to protect you, because otherwise you idiotic plebs would not be able to handle information,
00:53:31.520then you've fallen into the worst instance of Kafkaesque and Orwellian nightmares.
00:53:39.880Which party has been calling for those kinds of misinformation and disinformation boards?
00:53:45.040I mean, literally, I've given you 13 reasons that any three of those 13 should make it clear who you should vote for.
00:53:57.420And yet, Sam Harris will say, yeah, yeah, sure, God, sure, Professor Dr. Saad, with all your fancy thinking.
00:54:50.500But if you stand with your progressive lisp, if you've written a book called Lying, where this is Sam Harris, where he is rejecting living a life of lies, how could you sleep at night promulgating such lies?
00:55:34.280My daughter called me earlier this afternoon to tell me that she wanted to hold a debate about Trump versus Harris in her class.
00:55:42.540The teacher told her something to the effect, quote, I suppose that you are for Trump, close quote.
00:55:48.300By the way, I wonder how he would know that because it's not as though my daughter is walking around with a MAGA hat, probably because he knows that she's my daughter.
00:55:58.900He retorted that his child is queer and would not be allowed in the U.S. until Donald Trump, an astounding falsehood that is unbefitting of a teacher.
00:56:37.920My daughter replies, quote, yeah, well, Kamala Harris would allow men to be in the bathroom shower with me in reference to so-called trans women, close quote.
00:56:47.260The teacher responds, quote, sit down now, you ready?
00:57:28.160Because all teachers, all social workers, all clinical psychologists, all therapists, all journalists, all movie producers, all actors, all professors, know the reality.
00:58:19.320Therefore, I vote for the Liberal Party in Canada.
00:58:22.700Even though every single position that the Liberal Party in Canada is the definition of illiberal policies, that's too much for me to think.
00:58:33.900I just prefer to say liberals good, conservatives bad.