The Rubin Report - Suicidal Empathy and Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_742)
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In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with my dad to talk about the latest in the Trump vs. Biden campaign, and why he thinks it s time to go to the Gulag. We also talk about how the left has weaponized empathy, and how it s become the most important piece of the political hierarchy.
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match of different political opinions, never found a home in either party that they are now
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breaking in massive ways. I mean, that sounded like almost a 20 point swing from what happened
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with Biden in Georgia last time. That is absolutely huge. That's actually indicative of hopefully what
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we will see more largely throughout the evening. But I just mentioned my friend Gad Saad, the
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sexiest man on the internet. And I believe he is joining us live from Canada. Gad, they haven't
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put you in the gulags in Canada yet, you sexy beast. They're coming for me. This is my last
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communique before I go to Gulag 13. And I also note that you're not hiding under the desk. You're
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usually hiding under the desk because somebody, Donald Trump is coming for you or some other
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horrific figure is coming and you're hiding in the desk and your wife is often in the distance
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making sure that you're being fed well and that you're okay. Yes. As you know, I had a huge stock
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of cod, of tuna and nuts, but they ran out. So I have to come out from under the desk.
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Dad, I mentioned, I don't know if you heard my previous interview or what I was talking
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about, but I mentioned a phrase that you have been bringing up quite extensively lately.
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I think you are, if I'm not mistaken, your next book is going to be about it, but you've
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written about it and we've talked about it before. Suicidal empathy. And that really seems
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to be the affliction across the West that is driving the liberals, unfortunately, to kill
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us all. That empathy has become the most important piece of the hierarchy. Can you explain maybe
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when you first saw this and why you think it's so dangerous? Because I think it's perfectly
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indicative of what is happening with this election right now as it comes to the intersectional
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alliance that the left is trying to put together.
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Yeah, thanks for the question. That's exactly the topic of my next book, Exactly Suicidal
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Empathy. So look, many emotions make sense when they are triggered within certain ranges,
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right? So take, for example, OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder. It is a maladaptive firing
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of an otherwise adaptive process. Now that sounds like a mouthful, so let me explain it. It makes
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perfect evolutionary sense for us to check that the back door is locked before we go to sleep.
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But we check it once, we make sure it's closed, and then we move on. OCD is the hyperactivation
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of that mechanism. I'm stuck by the door rechecking and rechecking for the next eight hours. So there
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is nothing wrong with empathy. It's a laudable, virtuous emotion to have. The problem arises when
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it hyperactivates, when it hyperactivates, and it targets the wrong people. So for example, when it
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comes to immigration, to spend all of our capital of empathy on illegal immigrants over American vets
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would be a manifestation of suicidal empathy. To argue that all immigrants are alike, because people
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will, for example, write to me, well, why are you against immigration? You're an immigrant, your buddy
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Elon Musk is an immigrant. Well, that presumes that all immigrants are equal, just like George Orwell
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said, all animals are equal, except some are more equal than others. So suicidal empathy is simply
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the maladaptive application of an otherwise adaptive emotion.
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So how do you think it got weaponized? Because it seems to me that if we just had a certain set
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of people that maybe were a little too empathetic or a little too emotional or whatever, that that
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could operate functionally in a society. But it seems to me that it has been weaponized to the point
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that everyone else now is Hitler, everyone is a racist, Donald Trump showing up at MSG is like Hitler
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in 1930, whatever, all of the stuff. And it seemingly has taken over an entire, it's not even
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electorate. It has taken over an entire segment of the population that will gladly import people
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who will behead them. Yeah, exactly. In Quebec, by the way, the Quebec government is perfectly happy
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to let in hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants, as long as before they behead you,
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they say bonjour. So as long as the beheadings happen in French, then it's all good, because at
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least we've protected our linguistic heritage. But to come back to your point of how that happened,
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think, let's draw an analogy with football, right? What you're trying to maximize to win a game is
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to score more points than the other team, right? Everybody agrees that that's the rules by which
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you win. Imagine if somebody came along and said, no, no, no, what I have to simply hold on to the
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ball more than the other team. That's what I use for me to win the game, right? And so this is what's
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happening in the West. It's no longer about protecting our foundational values. The highest
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goal, the most virtuous objective that you can achieve is to be orgiastically empathetic.
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And of course, that results in suicidal empathy.
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I'd like to go on to another phrase that you mention all the time. By the way, did you see
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the chyron that we put under you? You're going to love it. Can we put that back under him? I don't
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know if he'll be able to see it, but this is very important stuff we're doing over here. You know,
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people have long, you have a very intense history academically. You've worked at many
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universities, all sorts of great things. But we thought that putting this under you would be
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most... I love it. By the way, I was a bit offended that earlier you said the sexiest man on the
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internet. I'm the sexiest man on earth. My sexiness is not restricted to the internet, buddy.
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In case there's someone that's super sexy who just doesn't have a phone. All right, fair enough.
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Well, we'll have the team look into that. You know, it's okay. As I said, it's a very different
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show than you're seeing on CNN. But I do want to ask you about another phrase that you talk about
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all the time. So we've got suicidal empathy. And then, oh my God, I lost it just as I'm saying
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it right now. Oh, give me one of your other good ones. Ostrich parasitic syndrome.
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Ostrich parasitic. Yes, that is it. The set of people that know something is wrong. So let's say
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they acknowledge, boy, these empathetic people, they're getting a whole bunch of us killed and they're
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importing all these people and something's not good here. But they instead choose to bury their
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head in the ground. Thank you for catching me up on the question. Exactly. So take, for example,
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Islam, right? If you presume that it is completely gauche and inappropriate for you to ever criticize
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someone's religion, then you become bound to that rule of conduct, right? So it doesn't matter
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how much evidence slaps you in the face to argue that maybe Islam might be more inherently violent
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than, say, Jainism. I'm unwilling to admit to that. And therefore, metaphorically, I bury my head in the
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sand and presume that it hasn't happened. Or I look for alternative causal explanations. So I can show you
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a list of 40,000 terrorist acts that have been committed since 9-11 alone in nearly 70 countries.
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And then Bill Nye, the science guy, will say that it is climate change that's causing this, or it's
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lack of art exposure that's causing this, or it's the Zionist occupation. So all causal explanations are
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okay as long as you don't blame the noble faith. That's ostrich parasitic syndrome mixed up with
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suicidal empathy, because I want to be empathetic to that religion of the noble brown people.
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We're doing a bit of the Gadsad Greatest Hits here, but I do want to do one other,
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because this is election night. And because I have seen something really extraordinary,
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I was just talking about it with Carol, so many liberals, former, let's say, New York Cali liberals,
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whatever that meant, moderate Dems, who for the first time are breaking towards Trump right now.
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One of the phrases that you've talked about that has stopped so many people from doing that over the
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years is that they consider Trump an aesthetic injury. And I really like this. And I think it's
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something that finally a certain set of people are getting over this idea that, oh my God,
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he eats ketchup with his steak that's well done. But that's not the only part of the aesthetic injury.
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Exactly. And here I'm going, imagine that this were the cork of a wine bottle. So there's an expression
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in Arabic that says, getting drunk simply by smelling the cork of the wine bottle. That's exactly what an
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aesthetic injury is, right? So look, I'm going to smell now the cork of the Barack Obama
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bottle, right? He's got a mellifluous voice. He's got a radiant smile. He's tall and lanky.
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It might be the case that every single syllable that he's ever uttered is a platitudinal sack of
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bullshit. But it doesn't matter because I'm drunk smelling his cork. On the other hand, when I smell the
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Trump cork, look, he's cantankerous. He's gross. He's overweight. So at no point did I mention a
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policy decision that either makes me like him or dislike him. I just have to smell the cork.
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Yeah. And unfortunately, too many people just operate on that. I think you came up with another
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phrase right there, the platitudinal sack of bullshit. That seems like it should definitely...
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That's why I am the poet and professor of the people.
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Before I let you go, in that you are up in Canada, and it seems to me that Canada actually,
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joking aside for a moment, Canada actually is in far worse shape than America is. Would you like
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to give a warning to some of our American friends who, I don't know if anyone... Well, everyone's
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basically voted if they're going to vote at this point, but just to the American that is kind of
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unsure, or doesn't quite see what I think you and I see the dangers to be in the world at the moment.
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So Canada has been under dear leader Justin Trudeau for now nine years, since 2015. He's been
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elected three times. On every conceivable metric that you could think of in measuring the quality
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of a society, we've gone precipitously downhill. And that's because Justin Trudeau and Kamala Harris
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exactly share the same ideological rapture. By the way, they're both from Montreal,
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both Kamala Harris, and as a matter of fact, they both grew up about 15 minutes from where I am
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A middle-class family in arguably the highest income neighborhood in Canada. By the way,
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my sister lives in that neighborhood, so I know it very well. This is not a humble brag.
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It literally is the case that every home is a castle. So it's such nonsense that she says,
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so the warning to the United States, unless you wish to emulate the trajectory that Canada has
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taken, I hope that you've made the right choice tonight.
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Connor, can you put the car on under him one more time so he can give a nice smile and give
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the people what they want as I say goodbye to him? We're going to throw to it one more time.
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We're just going to give... It's really giving Gad what he wants more than giving the people what
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he wants. I think we've got it. There you go. It is worldwide sex symbol. Gad said,
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Gad, I love you. I can't wait to see you again. I keep trying to get you to move to Florida,
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but you're at your work. Well, we're working on it. Let's put it that way.