The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - Trudeau's Resignation, Islam, and Suicidal Empathy (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_779)

00:00:00.000 there's something in psychology called the self-serving bias which i also talk about in

00:00:10.440 the forthcoming book so the self-serving bias is a way that people navigate in terms of attributing

00:00:17.300 successes and failures be it in their lives or in the lives of others so most people tend to have

00:00:24.320 and that's why it's called self-serving they tend to have a rosy attributional style meaning that

00:00:30.000 if i did well on the exam it's because i'm smart and i studied hard if i did poorly on the exam 0.95

00:00:38.040 is it's because professor sad is an asshole jude right and therefore successes are attributed 0.94

00:00:45.160 internally failures are attributed externally 0.99

00:00:48.260 our timing could not be better today professor gad sad is a visiting professor in

00:00:59.920 global ambassador at northwood university he is a phenomenal intellect but what i love about him

00:01:08.980 and what you will too is the way he puts stuff um he's fearless he is fearless he is a great follow

00:01:16.680 on x he's written several books we had him once before to talk about his book on happiness the

00:01:23.000 parasitic mind is the book he's most well known for international bestseller i cannot recommend it

00:01:28.780 enough it is so important right now and he's got a forthcoming book called suicidal empathy which talks

00:01:36.080 about how we're so virtuous and empathetic that you know we we feel sorry for people who are evil

00:01:43.940 it's as simple as that we're going to get into it with him he has been a massive critic of justin trudeau

00:01:50.680 so the fact that trudeau stepped down today was perfect timing he is a massive critic of um

00:01:57.920 suicidal empathy which we'll get into think about that term and what it means i can't wait for you to

00:02:04.720 hear this i i absolutely adore this man uh yeah where is his nobel prize i think it's forthcoming if we

00:02:11.700 get smart professor gad sat is next gad welcome back this is the perfect day to have you on i know

00:02:22.320 you're probably heartbroken by the news that justin trudeau is resigning uh and as soon as he is saying

00:02:30.720 as soon as someone is available to replace him uh he'll step down what does that mean in canada like

00:02:36.660 how does that process work well first of all he's irreplaceable yes he it takes a unique

00:02:45.200 narcissistic degenerate to destroy canada in nine years so i'm unsure that we could ever

00:02:52.200 top justin trudeau but uh so the the the liberal party will have to appoint some person to replace

00:03:01.320 him because i mean as you know in the canadian system it's parliamentary so you're you're you're

00:03:06.960 not really vote you're voting for a party and then the party has a leader and so i'm assuming that

00:03:14.460 whomever they decide to replace justin trudeau will be interim leader for you know a couple of months

00:03:21.160 and then eventually a federal election will probably be called in spring by whom is well and and the

00:03:27.380 conservative guy pierre poiliev uh am i saying that right poiliev i mean if you said it in the

00:03:33.140 french way which is probably not the way he says it it's poiliev but yeah okay uh he is running on

00:03:41.200 the conservative side right like when does that election you know here in the states you know how

00:03:45.580 it works we have an election every four years we know when it's going to be is it different in canada

00:03:50.760 and how so uh yeah so i mean all of the machinations and what what's going on with your dog that's

00:03:57.900 barking is there is there he's really upset about trudeau he's um he's sad because he liked getting

00:04:04.920 free stuff yes exactly uh so i i think the way it'll happen i don't know all of the mechanisms of

00:04:12.680 how you'd call the election and so on but the general timeline is that i think by this spring

00:04:20.020 there will be a federal election called and then hopefully not only i mean trudeau would be out

00:04:26.460 but you also want to get rid of the liberal party now the rumors that i'm hearing is that

00:04:31.020 they they may have so few seats given the kind of bloodbath that is likely to happen political bloodbath 0.56

00:04:39.220 that who knows how many parliamentarian seats they will have after trudeau's out we'll see you can't

00:04:46.620 say bloodbath anymore without nancy pelosi running the microphone and saying that's why i said

00:04:50.940 political that's why yes yes he's promising violence and a bloodbath that's that is also why the dog is

00:04:58.300 barking and i apologize the timing couldn't be better um okay so i i'm gonna play you a little

00:05:05.300 bit here uh gad of today's announcement by uh trudeau you know politicians love to do this they love to

00:05:14.280 walk out saying we worked and fought for you every day and we did it let's hear what he's claimed go

00:05:19.980 ahead and roll that john i've fought for this country for you to strengthen and grow the middle class

00:05:28.540 why we rallied to support each other through the pandemic to advance reconciliation to defend free

00:05:36.840 trade on this continent to stand strong with ukraine and our democracy and to fight climate change and

00:05:44.700 get our economy ready for the future we are at a critical moment in the world he doesn't even sound

00:05:52.840 authentic to me he never has but what when you hear that what is your reaction michelle i i can't

00:06:01.840 express and i'm someone who has an ease with words i can't express the extent to which i love this guy

00:06:11.280 because he possesses all of the most execrable traits that a human being can possess he's he's a 0.61

00:06:19.360 malignant narcissist he is a megalomaniac he is parasitized by every single parasitic idea that i discuss 0.96

00:06:29.220 in the parasitic mind so there is no redeeming quality that you can find in this guy uh when it 0.96

00:06:36.700 comes to the specific things that he says complete hogwash right i mean i'll give an example from my

00:06:41.720 personal life the amount of taxes that were stolen from me from the book royalties that were garnered from

00:06:52.420 the parasitic mind 99 of which were not generated in canada but canada has a world income proviso whereby

00:07:02.040 if i were to make money on mars if i were to go on that first rocket that elon puts out to mars and i

00:07:09.860 generate income in mars justin trudeau the quebec and the canadian government would say that's our money

00:07:17.300 so when you add up all of the money that was taken from me it was about 58 percent just of my royalties

00:07:26.140 right all of which were generated outside of canada right now i would have to work as a professor

00:07:35.480 for 10 additional years in order to make up the taxes that were taken from my book royalties

00:07:45.060 but he stands up and says hey we've made it better for everyone no what you've done

00:07:51.780 is because socialism is a parasitic ponzi scheme you need to take from the few really producing

00:08:01.400 canadians so that you could support the rest of the ponzi scheme so yes there are tons of people

00:08:07.800 who were including him who were able to go on 83 000 a night holidays that i paid through my book

00:08:17.520 royalties by the way in ireland right ireland is not a bastion of great freedom these days but in ireland

00:08:24.760 they at least recognize that there is something unique about taxing book royalties and therefore

00:08:30.240 there are no taxes on book royalties because that's part of the cultural heritage of a society

00:08:35.340 imagine that you could tax my mind my theories my personal experience in lebanon that i write about

00:08:43.080 in this book 58 percent of that belongs to justin trudeau so i'm only 42 percent of a human being 0.72

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00:10:28.880 how did he get by with this for so long that's that's one of my curiosities i mean i remember one

00:10:37.620 of the first times i i have have a recollection of trudeau he was wearing a t-shirt or a shirt

00:10:44.240 that said the future is feminine which is one of those parasitic things you're talking about just 1.00

00:10:50.120 one of these mantras that somehow seems to make him virtuous but he continued we know about the

00:10:57.040 blackface incident um how did he get away with this for so long it's unbelievable so i'm gonna do 1.00

00:11:02.860 a little i don't know if i've done this the last time that i was on your show imagine that this

00:11:07.760 memory stick is the cork of a wine bottle okay so just bear with me there's an arabic expression that

00:11:15.260 that what when i translate it obviously most of you don't speak arabic it's getting drunk by simply 0.84

00:11:21.820 smelling the cork of the wine bottle right what that refers to the fact that you are of such weak

00:11:28.020 constituency that you don't actually have to go through the effort of drinking the wine to get

00:11:33.820 drunk okay so now let's let me apply this beautiful poetic arabic expression to how we choose our

00:11:41.360 leaders right so now i'm going to get drunk michelle by smelling the cork of justin trudeau he's tall

00:11:48.880 he has beautiful hair look i'm already getting wobbly are you seeing me you see i'm starting to get

00:11:55.040 wobbly right this hard effort of looking at what are the fundamental values that he holds

00:12:04.420 that would be too much effort right that's why i refer to most people as regrettably degenerate

00:12:12.360 cognitive misers which is a fancy professorial way of me saying cognitive miser is intellectually lazy

00:12:18.920 it's hard to think right so it's much better for me to smell look now i'm going to smell 1.00

00:12:24.580 the cork of donald trump he's disgusting he's gross he's vile he speaks in a cantankerous 0.99

00:12:33.520 queen's way he's a brawler now i may agree with every single one of donald trump's policies as do 0.99

00:12:41.340 many of my academic colleagues but that would require effortful cognitive processes much better to

00:12:48.380 simply get drunk by the cork of the wine bottle so that explains how we get trudeau for nine years

00:12:54.340 oh my gosh i mean that's it's beautifully put i do like that um that analogy very very much as a

00:13:00.940 wine drinker uh i prefer to drink the wine actually but it is amazing to me and i i feel like we go

00:13:07.640 through this you know you you're an expert in evolutionary psychology so is this this isn't

00:13:15.320 new right i mean is this this has been with us from the beginning of time it is i mean there are two

00:13:22.140 ways i could answer so number one humans like to use so i'm going to use here a term that was

00:13:28.700 originally coined by a gert gigerenz or a german psychologist and his team uh he's in the he was at

00:13:35.080 the max planck institute in germany talked about fast and frugal heuristics now what does that mean a

00:13:41.360 heuristic is a mental shortcut right fast and frugal heuristic means that it is fastly deployed

00:13:49.260 and frugal means it is cognitively effortless to deploy it right so now let's take this principle

00:13:56.400 of fast and frugal heuristics and let me apply to the context of justin trudeau or barack obama or

00:14:01.940 donald trump using my emotional system to make these judgments is much faster than to engage my cognitive

00:14:11.900 system right because because emotions are autonomically deployed right i can easily invoke

00:14:18.540 my emotional system and therefore i can arrive at a decision much more quickly if i only apply my

00:14:25.800 affective system now the problem with that is that for many situations triggering my affective system makes

00:14:34.300 perfect evolutionary sense so for example if i'm walking down a dark alley and i see four young men

00:14:40.480 loitering that will trigger my fear-based response now that makes perfect evolutionary sense in that

00:14:47.880 context because i've evolved this emotional mechanism that hopefully confers a survival advantage to me

00:14:55.580 but if i apply the wrong system at the wrong time so if i invoke my emotional system to choose a president

00:15:03.640 or prime minister when i should have been invoking my cognitive system we end up with justin trudeau for

00:15:09.280 nine years so yes it is part of our evolutionary heritage to sometimes misfire the incorrect system

00:15:16.480 i and it makes me wonder how we overcome that or change that because there aren't a lot of people

00:15:26.340 who are willing to put in the work right i mean especially we're getting dumber by the moment

00:15:31.820 because things happen so fast via the internet via our phones our apps whatever

00:15:36.260 that we prefer that we just look down you know experience the emotions don't think so this seems

00:15:45.340 like a turning this ship is is going to be quite difficult what do you see as the the process where

00:15:52.880 how does it start i always like to be optimistic that's why you know people call me the happy warrior

00:15:59.260 even when i'm writing very difficult things i try to have a you know a twinkle in my eye try to be

00:16:05.240 sarcastic try to be humorous which perhaps is even a a defensive coping strategy because you see all the

00:16:11.840 insanity if you don't laugh about some of it you'd go crazy you're right i'm afraid to be a bit pessimistic

00:16:17.880 in that i i fear that it is an indelible part of the architecture of the human mind to forevermore

00:16:25.380 succumb to a lot of these biases so for example uh daniel kahneman and amos tversky two israeli

00:16:32.900 psychologists one of whom won the nobel prize in economics and only one won it because the other

00:16:37.820 one had already passed away and you can't win a nobel prize posthumously well daniel kahneman's research

00:16:44.000 was basically to demonstrate that the human mind has these built-in cognitive biases these these errors

00:16:53.320 that it consistently commits now there are evolutionary reasons why these cognitive biases

00:16:59.560 exist so i don't think we will ever eradicate some of these faulty ways of thinking or lack of thinking

00:17:07.320 but hopefully people like me could be standing on top of the mountain at least reminding you

00:17:12.520 that uh beware of these cognitive traps right well and you've been doing that

00:17:19.400 one of the things you and you posted recently on x you feel like you've been shouting into the wind

00:17:25.160 uh when we saw what happened in new orleans a week ago it's so tragic and this brings me back to

00:17:31.700 to two different people but let's start with our good friend justin trudeau after the boston marathon

00:17:36.820 bombings um he decided to be empathetic toward the two bombs he's very kind he's very virtuous that way

00:17:46.020 john let's go ahead and play that sound from long ago but there is no question um that this happened

00:17:52.780 uh because there is someone who feels um completely excluded completely um at war with uh innocence

00:18:02.980 at war with a society uh and our approach has to be okay where do those tensions come from

00:18:11.260 i mean yes we need to make sure that we're promoting security and we're you know keeping our borders safe

00:18:16.700 and and and you know monitoring the kinds of of um you know violent subgroups that happen around

00:18:25.260 but we also have to monitor uh and and encourage people uh to not point fingers at each other and lay blame

00:18:33.820 for personal ills or societal ills on a specific group whether it be the west or the government or

00:18:40.540 or bostonians or or or whatever it is let's stop it right there john it's it's almost too much to take

00:18:48.600 um so we'll we'll smile right because we got to be happy my blood pressure just went up 20 points

00:18:54.220 thank you oh shoot i'm sorry i apologize you know that he was talking about the sarnaia brothers and and

00:19:00.000 you know that they felt excluded in some way but the reason the reason the reason why i had shared

00:19:07.240 recently uh that clip is because i was including that quote in my forthcoming book suicidal empathy

00:19:15.580 and so that's why it was top of mind even though it had happened you know a decade ago well the fact

00:19:22.000 that it happened a decade ago and we're still here a decade later it doesn't take long for these things

00:19:28.800 to metastasize exactly right uh look uh so there are several ways i can answer this uh

00:19:37.260 there's something in psychology called the self-serving bias which i also talk about in

00:19:43.800 the forthcoming book so the self-serving bias is a way that people navigate in terms of attributing

00:19:50.680 successes and failures be it in their lives or in the lives of others so most people tend to have

00:19:57.660 and that's why it's called self-serving they tend to have a rosy attributional style meaning that if

00:20:03.600 i did well on the exam it's because i'm smart and i studied hard if i did poorly on the exam is it's 0.93

00:20:12.220 because professor sad is an asshole jude right and therefore successes are attributed internally 0.95

00:20:19.320 failures are attributed externally when i what i argue in suicidal empathy is that progressive castrated 0.98

00:20:27.880 people like justin trudeau have a unique attributional style whereby the degenerate behaviors

00:20:37.180 of others are always attributed internally so the those two brothers did what they did not because

00:20:47.220 they had personal agency to read their islamic book and decide that the best outcome would be to put 0.95

00:20:55.420 those pressure cooker bombs and kill as many kuffar infidels as possible no you turn it inward it's 1.00

00:21:03.700 probably because we suck in the west yeah it's probably because we didn't create an environment 0.98

00:21:11.620 that didn't cause them to be marginalized right and therefore by turning other people's orgiastic 0.94

00:21:18.460 debauchery inward then i'm truly someone who's empathetic hence suicidal empathy

00:21:24.440 you know i when joe biden was running for president and i i remember this how many people would say oh

00:21:30.980 he's empathetic i love that i'm voting for i'm voting for empathy and it's but i'm so i can't wait for

00:21:38.900 your next book to come out i mean everyone should read the parasitic mind but suicidal empathy could

00:21:44.960 not be more timely uh it's the same thing like and you heard it so often after october 7th of 2023

00:21:51.880 you know it's this is not this is not the fault of the palestinians this is the fault of the jews they 0.99

00:21:58.280 brought this on themselves they they it's because of what they've done to palestine that that 0.96

00:22:03.100 palestine just reacted and and now the jews are the horrible people because they're defending 0.88

00:22:08.800 themselves i mean is that is that the proper uh comparison to what you just talked about i mean 0.74

00:22:15.600 absolutely in this case you're misdirecting the target of your empathy is the wrong target rather

00:22:22.700 than targeting properly the empathy towards the 1200 people who were butchered and so on you talk you

00:22:29.900 target your empathy to the ones who committed the act right so right i mean i mean you don't want to 0.99

00:22:34.780 marginalize the nazis forget about those asshole jews that were burned in the ovens but it's the 0.99

00:22:40.300 nazis that are really deserving of our empathy because you know not all germans are nazis right 1.00

00:22:45.440 so by the way i should and i'm going to give two very quick examples of empathy from uh my personal

00:22:52.360 experience so let me do that and then i'll come back to okay to a theoretical explanation of

00:22:56.720 what suicidal empathy is and i think it was 2015 or 2016 uh every summer we go to newport beach uh

00:23:08.720 you know i used to be a professor at uc irvine i have i had family in southern california so it's

00:23:14.040 like a second home to us and i taught my children very early in life unlike greta thunberg who pretends

00:23:20.760 to be an environmentalist i actually engage in behavior that helps the world even if it's in a

00:23:27.060 small way i would walk with my children and try to pick up litter from the beach and i would always

00:23:33.200 say look we just picked up 60 pieces of litter which would have otherwise been polluting the beach

00:23:39.220 had we not engaged in this small act of of goodness okay so at one point we were sitting at the beach

00:23:45.620 and we saw this woman who had this plastic containers with many many cupcakes and she she ate a few and 0.96

00:23:54.820 then left the remaining cupcakes with the plastic container right now when she's leaving there is a

00:24:02.140 garbage pail that she could have just thrown she left it there so i looked and i said excuse me

00:24:08.140 you you don't think that maybe you can put this away and she basically at the time i was heavier so

00:24:14.500 she called me a fat whatever and she started insulting my son who had long long hair and i 0.95

00:24:21.800 looked at her and i said you genuinely are a human pig okay and so now why am i saying all this we're 0.97

00:24:30.460 going to come to empathy in a second okay during that same summer there was a university in southern 0.96

00:24:37.860 california that was very interested in hiring for for professorship a permanent professorship

00:24:44.160 when i now i had posted a clip on my youtube channel where i recounted that story that you know what can

00:24:51.920 drive people to engage in such ugly debauchery right i mean just just drop the the the the litter in

00:24:59.860 the garbage yeah well when i sat down with the two colleagues at lunch who were very keen on hiring me

00:25:07.720 the female colleague because you know women are inherently more empathetic than men looked at me 0.88

00:25:15.020 in in all seriousness said before we begin our conversation i'd like to discuss a you know something

00:25:22.040 that's been weighing on me i said oh go ahead well what is it you know i look serious she goes well i i

00:25:28.020 saw your your clip that you posted and i felt very very uncomfortable by you using you know the term

00:25:36.820 human pig i said oh i see you felt more uncomfortable by me using using the term human pig than about the 0.97

00:25:46.420 piggish boorish behavior of the woman who not only had littered not only had called me a fat pig but had 1.00

00:25:53.700 also attacked my then five-year-old son so my very very big academic cv did not impress her as much as 0.98

00:26:04.260 me having been non-empathetic through the use of the very non-empathetic term human pig for an actual

00:26:12.340 human pig okay so that gives you one story story two which is much shorter a senior administrator at my

00:26:20.340 home university unfollowed me on then twitter when i then called her out on that i said oh i couldn't

00:26:28.260 help but notice that you unfollowed me what why is that she said that she felt very uncomfortable

00:26:35.460 when i called people imbecile on twitter see that's not empathetic professors should not use these types of 0.70

00:26:44.580 terms like imbecile it hurts people's feelings so when when the person that i call imbecile has been 0.99

00:26:52.100 attacking me for a week on end with all kinds of defamation and i retort with imbecile that's not 1.00

00:26:59.380 becoming of a professor she's empathetic i'm just a middle eastern brute see you're the one that's at fault 0.98

00:27:06.900 because you used a term that made her i love that word uncomfortable you know i'm sure she thought 0.97

00:27:13.460 you using the word imbecile was dangerous that's another word people like to use is dangerous 0.90

00:27:19.700 when you as a professor use that term she didn't care about the person going after you for weeks on 0.99

00:27:24.740 end nor did they care about the fact that i put my life on the line to defend french canadian feminists

00:27:34.340 from the dangers of islam that which she's a very strong academic leader who is a feminist 0.98

00:27:41.940 and is from quebec that didn't impress her as much as the fact that i used the word imbecile 0.84

00:27:48.420 that was way too much for her she had to unfollow i have to go back to story one real quick so at this

00:27:53.940 lunch when she said this to you and you responded which i i just wish i had been there to applaud your

00:28:01.700 response publicly and loudly what how did she react to your response

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00:29:48.900 what how did she react to your response so i i explained the full story which apparently she

00:29:59.300 hadn't really watched the full clip uh but she just saw the title which i is still up on my youtube

00:30:07.460 channel but so the fact that i had so she probably just saw the title that i called her human pig so 1.00

00:30:14.100 it de-escalated her irate you know level because it maybe seemed justifiable that i would call her

00:30:23.460 human pig so and kind of like okay i'll grant you a pass in that now that you've explained why you 0.72

00:30:31.060 committed this linguistic genocide on this otherwise noble woman then okay fine you're okay now i should 0.97

00:30:39.900 mention that woman frankly is a genuinely good person like i i really did like her but it speaks

00:30:46.620 to what happens when you are completely parasitized by orgiastic empathy so maybe now i can go back and

00:30:53.420 explain the the theoretical mechanism that drives suicidal empathy well it this is uh these are such great

00:31:02.380 examples of of what you talk about uh in in both the forthcoming book and in uh the current one um

00:31:13.660 here's another post that you put out that i adored imagine sir winston churchill's famous speech to

00:31:21.180 rally britain you know by the land by the sea we will never surrender and now think of the british leaders

00:31:28.220 governing today it only took 80 or so years for this to happen paris how do you say it paris

00:31:37.500 parasitized minds zombified by suicidal empathy have transformed civilization's trajectory save this

00:31:46.940 post i'll book my flight to stockholm at nobel prize i i want to play keir stermer's sound um regarding

00:31:57.100 islamophobia go ahead john can you roll that one now we've seen a devastating rise in islamophobia

00:32:04.060 leaving people feeling fearful and unsafe in their own country i've heard firsthand of women wearing 1.00

00:32:11.180 hijab who are too scared to travel by public transport of muslim families being abused as they 0.99

00:32:18.460 leave the mosque the surge in islamophobia is simply appalling muslim women and girls disproportionately 1.00

00:32:26.140 targeted mosques forced to ramp up security and british muslims questioned as if they are terrorists

00:32:34.460 i do not want britain to be a place where british muslims are not able to be their whole selves

00:32:40.860 where they feel they must hide or tone down who they are for fear of being attached to views that are

00:32:46.940 not their own where they're asked to apologize for the actions of people who do not act in their name

00:32:52.780 our britain is one where the enormous contributions of british muslims are recognized and celebrated

00:33:01.660 their stories heard their lives free from discrimination as leader of the labour party i am indebted to the

00:33:09.980 contributions of muslim members activists and politicians who make our party what it is today

00:33:16.300 okay i think that i think that's plenty john to to uh to exemplify how keir starmer feels about

00:33:25.020 islamophobia in great britain has he addressed uh you know the anti-jewish center the anti-semitism

00:33:32.140 in britain in the same way why is he so focused on islamophobia well so there's a there are several

00:33:39.980 ways to answer this i'll give one uh so our earlier point of how people try to use simplifying heuristics

00:33:48.780 to make sense of the word world the narrative of who is an oppressor and who is oppressed is one that

00:33:58.620 simplifies the world for me now how about we always agree that islam is always victimized and 1.00

00:34:08.700 those uppity jews i mean winning 25 percent of all nobel prizes for such a minuscule 1.00

00:34:15.500 community they're assholes they're overachievers probably the the the nobel committee is probably 1.00

00:34:23.500 run by zionists because what else could explain that those uppity smarmy assholes could be winning 1.00

00:34:28.700 so many nobel prizes so jews with their really really mean zionist tanks are attacking helpless 1.00

00:34:37.340 children who only have a slingshot that's an easy way for me to see the world there are really mean 0.81

00:34:43.500 ogre jews and there is islam which has always been peaceful tolerant and kind and proof of that

00:34:50.780 is that we left lebanon as lebanese jews because we were very very afraid of all of the love that was

00:34:59.500 being pervade on us so our leaving lebanon was a manifestation of our internalized islamophobia

00:35:07.260 as was the case when my grandparents left syria as was the case when muslims exterminated my wife's 0.98

00:35:18.060 family in the armenian genocide as was the case when my brother-in-law's parents left alexandria in egypt

00:35:28.860 because of their internalized islamophobia so any pattern that i give you from the past 1400 years

00:35:37.740 even when it involves say the killing of 80 million hindus by muslim conquerors proves that islam is 1.00

00:35:48.060 the victim and the other ones are so even when your head is decapitated by the islamic sword of peace 1.00

00:35:56.300 it is your head that attacked the sword the sword was the victim now i say this with a tsunami of

00:36:05.980 sarcasm because that's the only way that you could handle that level of parasitic thinking right go back

00:36:14.860 and read what winston churchill said about islam just go back and read it i won't replay it here so

00:36:22.220 something must have happened between the time of winston churchill saying whatever he said about

00:36:28.300 islam and what this guy is saying about islamophobia that's what happens when number one your cognitive

00:36:37.020 system is parasitized hence the parasitic mind and when your emotional system is your is parasitized

00:36:44.700 hence suicidal empathy it's a little terrifying i gotta be honest with you and and i just wonder

00:36:51.980 you know you you you you are a happy warrior uh you you're you're at the mountaintop screaming this

00:36:59.100 it's amazing that people i why don't people want to hear this gad because the reflex is that it is gauche to

00:37:11.260 criticize someone's religion number one right to criticize communism feels okay because that is a

00:37:20.700 socio-political economic ideology and you know if you criticize socialism or communism hey some people

00:37:27.980 like capitalism some people love communism let's debate it that seems okay but as the old adage says

00:37:35.180 never discuss politics never discuss religion so in the west we have been inculcated with the idea

00:37:42.300 that proper people good people empathetic people never criticize someone else's belief system except

00:37:50.380 that the west in a sense violates that because it is perfectly okay to criticize every other religion

00:37:58.460 there is one though that you should never criticize because that religion is just made up of 0.97

00:38:04.940 hapless victims by the way the organization of islamic cooperation the oic which is made up of 56 0.68

00:38:11.820 countries plus the palestinian territories each of those countries once upon a time once upon a time

00:38:20.780 had zero islam in it but then you close your eyes and you open your eyes and those societies become 0.99

00:38:27.340 99 percent 100 islamic how did that happen did every one of those societies only get islamized by the 1.00

00:38:36.780 distribution of candy or does the sword of islam have a sword precisely because maybe colonialism maybe

00:38:46.300 supremacist conquering is what led to those societies becoming islamized so we can criticize the jews 0.98

00:38:54.460 for their colonialism in israel but it wasn't colonialism when islam conquered 56 countries 0.96

00:39:03.020 that's the problem so that as long as the west has this innate reflex to never criticize only one group

00:39:11.420 of people you will lose the battle i still i'm i'm still don't understand it does it have to do with you

00:39:20.220 you know i've heard people say look in the west the united states in israel the entrepreneurial uh

00:39:26.780 spirit the success rate you talk about the nobel laureates the the ambition the uh materialism the

00:39:34.300 success all those things make them more the oppressor if you will or the the successful people you got to blame

00:39:44.220 them because it's the people without all of that and and it's not for want of brain cells i i think it's

00:39:53.260 for want of self-oppression i don't know i don't know this i'm hoping you can steer me but that's why by the

00:39:59.900 way that's why the the uh the islamophilic folks is so we talk we hear islamophilia but islam of it we hear 0.86

00:40:09.260 islamophobia but islamophilia is just an orgiastic love of islam right so many people in the west just

00:40:16.940 have a a reflex of all things islamophilic well the reason why those folks go to bed with the leftist 0.72

00:40:26.460 progressives is because both agree that there is something wrong inherently with the west right now of

00:40:35.740 course that the leftists don't realize that once you know we get rid of the evil capitalist we get

00:40:42.380 rid of the west you're next on the chopping blocks right they don't know that right i mean that's why

00:40:47.420 queers for palestine could actually be a real thing right i mean it's it's just it's it's difficult to

00:40:54.300 imagine that human beings can be so void of any neuronal activity in their brain right i mean

00:41:00.940 think about just for a second queers for palestine right if i present myself to the world 0.98

00:41:09.180 with the first marker being my queerness hey more power to you be queer that's great do you think

00:41:16.140 that you should put your sign and your hashtag behind tel aviv which is one of the most queer 0.91

00:41:23.820 friendly places in the world i mean short of san francisco short of new york short of montreal

00:41:29.740 tel aviv is probably one of the global centers of you know being pro queer and so on so if i am queer

00:41:37.180 should i have hashtag tel aviv for queers or should i put all of my marbles on the side of gaza where 0.66

00:41:46.540 they have a very very effective conversion therapy it's a gravity-based conversion therapy program

00:41:54.700 right it's a hundred percent guaranteed to cure you of your queerness but that's what happens when 0.76

00:42:01.660 your mind is parasitized that's why i use the neuro parasitic framework now let me just explain to

00:42:08.060 your listeners who don't know why i use the term parasitic in in nature the field of parasitology

00:42:15.980 studies the interaction between parasites and their hosts now many parasites don't go to the brain of the

00:42:22.860 the host so for example a tapeworm parasitizes your intestinal tract a neuro parasite though

00:42:30.780 seeks to end up in the host's brain altering its neuronal circuitry to suit its interest so for example

00:42:40.780 a wood cricket abhors water it doesn't want to go into water when it is parasitized by a hair worm

00:42:48.620 the hair worm in order for it to complete its reproductive cycle it needs to get the wood 0.97

00:42:54.860 cricket to happily and haplessly jump in water to its suicide and that's exactly what a parasitized 0.99

00:43:03.100 wood cricket does it jumps into the water happily committing suicide in the service of the neuro parasite

00:43:11.740 called the hair worm so when i put up a sign says queer for palestine i'm the helpless and hapless 0.99

00:43:19.420 wood cricket hence that's why i use the parasitic framework people can't be this stupid can they 0.99

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00:44:52.700 people can't be this stupid can they you know it's it's fun i love how incredulous you are and as the 0.99

00:45:05.260 author of the parasitic mind who has spent 30 plus years screaming from the top of the mountain i'm just as 1.00

00:45:11.980 incredulous as you are right i mean you would think that i have built in an inoculation against being

00:45:17.500 incredulous that okay i get it no that's why every day i can't walk away from twitter or x because i

00:45:25.340 simply can't believe the stuff that people post right and so for example how could it be that when it comes

00:45:34.300 to the issue of the industrial scale level rape of 250 000 children in britain anyone could have

00:45:47.180 the sense of fighting against people who are calling the gang rape of children out how could

00:45:57.100 that be possible right i mean you would think that if there is one issue on which irrespective of your

00:46:03.980 faith irrespective of your gender identity we could all say we could all band together and say gang rape 0.78

00:46:12.220 of children that's probably not a good thing no i can go on right now on x and show you a million

00:46:21.260 tweets where people attack me because jeffrey epstein was a jew so why is it that you're focusing on

00:46:30.860 ahmad and muhammad when epstein and by the way professor sad i'm sure that you must have been on epstein

00:46:37.580 island right oh so imagine that people could have such a broken moral compass that we can't come

00:46:45.420 together in calling out the gang rape of children it's unbelievable it it truly is

00:46:55.340 surreal i and in spite of the fact that we can say and we can probably trace this back

00:47:01.100 millennia i feel like we're living in a very upside down world right now more so than when i was

00:47:10.780 growing up maybe it's because i'm wiser and more mature that i'm just seeing it or maybe it really is

00:47:17.180 freaking crazy i mean i i i don't know you what do you see so okay there are there are two parts to

00:47:26.060 answering this question the capacity for the human mind to be parasitized is eternal okay so that part

00:47:36.540 is not specific to today's era but hold on i'm coming to part two so for example there was a time

00:47:43.740 where people thought it was a very good idea you know i think that aunt nancy over there is a witch

00:47:50.540 so here's what we're going to do we're going to throw her into a body of water and if she swims 1.00

00:47:56.700 then this proves that she is a witch and of course we'll burn her then and if she drowns then oops i guess 0.99

00:48:03.420 we were wrong and nancy wasn't a witch that wasn't a long time ago that was only a couple of centuries 0.97

00:48:09.180 ago and we actually thought that that was a really good idea so i can give you another 13 trillion

00:48:14.780 examples of absolute insanity throughout human history so the capacity for human minds to be

00:48:21.820 parasitized by insanity is certainly not specific to this period but to your point michelle the specific

00:48:30.300 parasitic ideas that today have flourished causes it to be a unique moment in human history you follow

00:48:37.900 what i'm saying yes so when you take post-modernism for example post-modernism the reason why i call it

00:48:44.700 the greatest of all idea pathogens the granddaddy of idea pathogens because it is the intellectual

00:48:54.060 terrorism that allows all of the other nonsense to flourish why because post-modernism purports that

00:49:00.700 there are no objective truths other than the one objective truth that there are no objective truths right

00:49:06.620 so therefore if i buy into this idea that there literally is no capital t truth then of course some 0.98

00:49:16.140 women could have nine inch penises because there is no truth that i am not bound by this genitalia truth 0.99

00:49:24.620 or this chromosome truth or this hormonal truth or this charles darwin truth about the fact that human 0.99

00:49:32.540 human human beings come as a sexually reproducing species with two phenotypes called male to female

00:49:39.100 that's why the canadian senate in 2017 had to call professor gad sad and professor jordan peterson to appear

00:49:48.940 and provide expert testimony to the fact that no no there really is such a thing as male and female

00:49:56.060 because until 15 minutes ago the 117 billion people that's that's a real estimate there has been

00:50:02.700 roughly 117 billion people who have existed as homo sapiens throughout human history they seem to be able

00:50:10.860 to very very very accurately navigate through the conundrum of what is male or female that's how

00:50:19.420 male and females were able to reproduce as our ancestors but 15 minutes ago we lost that ability

00:50:27.580 because then and that's why your current i say yours because i'm not american but frankly i should be

00:50:34.860 an honorary american yes you should i agree your thank you your justice your most recent addition to

00:50:43.100 the the the supreme court did not have the epistemological epistemological confidence to give

00:50:50.380 an answer when she was asked by the senator what's your definition of a woman i mean i don't know i'm not 0.96

00:50:57.020 a biologist really that's one of the nine people who's going to adjudicate cases involving male and female

00:51:05.980 so that's what happens when human minds are parasitized and frankly and if you forgive the immodesty

00:51:11.820 that's why the parasitic mind became such an international bestseller because that's what

00:51:17.340 explains this complete jump into the abyss of infinite lunacy infinite lunacy god i hope not

00:51:26.140 um i want to ask you about this before we wrap sure you talk about biophobia and i hadn't heard this

00:51:33.340 term before i read the parasitic mind it's fear of biology and explaining human phenomena and this relates

00:51:39.740 back to what you were saying has been a recurring form of science denialism that i've experienced

00:51:45.180 throughout my academic career biophobia like fear of biology in explaining human phenomena yes how what's

00:51:56.540 the root of that is it post-modernism the root of that yeah no well no actually it's it that one came

00:52:02.460 before post-modernism okay so the reason why i mentioned this in the parasitic mind is because

00:52:09.580 that was my first exposure to parasitic thinking as an academic because for for your viewers and

00:52:18.060 listeners who may not know this my scientific research is in the application of evolutionary

00:52:23.420 psychology and evolutionary biology to study human behavior in general and consumer behavior in

00:52:28.860 particular that's why i'm housed in a business school right so right so our hormones affect our 0.78

00:52:35.340 food behavior right the average three-day-old squirrel knows this but all of my super smart academic

00:52:43.820 colleagues think that that's really a corrosive idea because biology matters in explaining the behavior of

00:52:51.740 your dog of the giraffe of mosquitoes but surely biology cannot explain the behavior of human beings we

00:53:00.540 transcend our biology we are cultural beings right now those ideas originally developed close to a hundred years ago

00:53:12.620 by a jewish anthropologist i only say this facetiously because whenever someone who is anti-semitic wants to be 0.99

00:53:20.700 a jew hater they will point to some jewish idiot who purported some stupid thing and then they say 0.99

00:53:26.780 you see all of those parasitic ideas come from jews but what about the fact that i'm the guy who wrote 1.00

00:53:32.140 the parasitic mind and i'm also jewish that doesn't count i'm not really a jew right now well so franz

00:53:39.020 boas was a cultural anthropologist about a hundred years ago at columbia university him and his gang basically

00:53:46.700 thought so to answer your question in a very long-winded professorial way he thought that because biology

00:53:55.420 in the wrong hand can lead to really nefarious outcomes well let's create a new understanding

00:54:03.340 of human behavior that leaves biology out so what does that mean eugenicists used biological arguments i mean

00:54:11.820 used in quotes used right uh look uh i'm speaking now as if i were a eugenicist let's not allow too many

00:54:19.820 sicilians into the united states because they look like they're a bit darker skin so maybe through either

00:54:27.900 more control immigration or maybe we just sterilize them then we at least can make sure that they don't 0.99

00:54:34.140 promulgate their genes or maybe let's do that to gaze and that's just the darwinian thing of course it has

00:54:39.740 nothing to do with darwin right because all that darwinian theory does is explains how species come about right

00:54:46.380 but because eugenicists took biological ideas to support their insanity because the nazis took darwinian

00:54:55.500 ideas and said hey it's a natural struggle between the races we're the arians sorry jews 0.99

00:55:01.340 sorry homosexuals sorry gypsies right you lost in the grand struggle hey that's just darwinians 1.00

00:55:07.900 off to the chambers you go because british class so the british social class elitists in the 19th 0.99

00:55:15.660 century made similar arguments we are the royal class you're in your squalor in the lower classes

00:55:23.420 if you all die of tuberculosis well that's just darwinian that's just nature you know culling out the bad 1.00

00:55:28.940 folks so because all kinds of cretins and morons misused evolutionary theory in the pursuit of their 1.00

00:55:37.340 political goals some really empathetic and kind academics came along and said let's create a new 0.98

00:55:47.500 reality where we can stop the likelihood of biology ever being misused hence biophobia fear of using

00:55:56.380 biology but in what world can you study every single species using biology except one species called homo 0.95

00:56:05.980 sapiens it's it's insane so that was my first exposure to parasitic thinking 30 plus years ago and it's 0.98

00:56:13.740 it been it's been a dance with the idiots ever since uh yeah i just don't know about prize michelle 0.99

00:56:23.740 it it's it's long overdue that's for one long overdue um i i i i would book a flight to stockholm though if i 0.98

00:56:33.980 were you because it's just someday i did that's oh by the way the good news is if i go to to sweden

00:56:42.700 i will feel completely comfortable because the native tongue of sweden is arabic and my mother tongue

00:56:50.140 is arabic so i'll feel right at home in sweden you won't feel uncomfortable and and you won't feel

00:56:55.900 like you're in danger which is key to a good life from what i hear uh this is i i could talk to you

00:57:04.220 for hours and we don't have hours but uh i just so marvel at the way that you what i love is the way

00:57:12.140 that you put this stuff in terms that people can go well yeah hell yeah you know i i and i just hope

00:57:19.340 more and more and more and yeah you know what i think i am going to go buy a bunch of copies of the

00:57:23.340 parasitic mind and ship them out to people that i know who really need to read it uh the parasitic 0.93

00:57:28.700 mind the parasitic mind the parasitic mind buy it for everyone that you know buy it for your kids 0.98

00:57:35.340 buy it for your college age kids uh last thing for you because you know and i know you're a happy warrior

00:57:41.420 but genuinely genuinely um what gives you hope about your work and the future that things

00:57:51.820 could get less insane so in an abstract sense i like to think that truth will always win up the

00:58:01.180 problem is that you can get to truth in a day and forestall a lot of violence we will get to truth in 40

00:58:10.220 years but then the reaction of people will cause a lot more violence to auto correct right so that's

00:58:17.660 what i'm what i'm basically saying is there's a long arc of history and decency and truth

00:58:23.980 eventually win out but the path to getting there can either be a nice promenade or it could be rivers

00:58:32.300 of blood and so over the long haul i always like to think that it auto corrects in the right direction

00:58:41.020 but in the shorter time period there's a lot of bumps in the road so that's the only way that i'm able to

00:58:46.380 get up every morning and feel optimistic knowing that truth is on my side the silent majority is on

00:58:53.420 my side and it is my job to awaken their courage so that hopefully we can win this tomorrow rather than

00:58:59.980 in 50 years awaken their courage that's how we as i end every show by saying be brave do good uh be for

00:59:08.540 that reason i i it we we cannot cower in this time we cannot we've got to be outspoken we've got to

00:59:15.820 stand up for this stuff does it give you hope that you know you've seen trump elected over one of

00:59:22.060 the worst candidates we've ever seen in american history and that trudeau like it seems to me like 0.73

00:59:27.740 maybe there's a these winds of chains trudeau resigns he knows he's in trouble he knows his party

00:59:33.900 i think is in trouble is that a hopeful trend it's hopeful in the short run to my to my previous point

00:59:41.740 meaning that look had kamala harris won out trudeau stayed for then it's only going to worsen things

00:59:50.380 so is there a tremendous uh reason to be happy absolutely but remember that it took depending on

00:59:59.900 the parasitic idea 50 to 100 years for these parasitic ideas to originally be spawned on university campuses

01:00:08.860 to then break out of the ivory tower to then infect every nook and cranny of society so it's not going

01:00:16.460 to magically disappear because donald trump ascended to the highest office right it's he's certainly going

01:00:23.420 to reverse a lot of the insanity but he's only around for four years so the the bigger battle is to make

01:00:30.940 sure right i mean the only way you get rid of polio is literally if you eradicate polio right i mean you

01:00:39.260 have to have a vaccine program that is so exhaustive that there are no longer any pockets of live polio

01:00:47.340 going around in any ecosystem well you need to do that with parasitized minds and with the reflex of

01:00:54.220 suicidal empathy so yes i'm optimistic that this massive auto correction called donald trump is now

01:01:01.500 in place but it's going to be much longer battle than donald trump keep fighting it uh i because you've

01:01:09.500 got a lot of people gad i know you know that now you've passed a million uh a million on x and and i

01:01:16.220 love that your family gave you a cake that was adorable uh all that so people are listening and that

01:01:21.820 should keep you hopeful as well he is gad sad you can find him we're going to put everything in the

01:01:26.860 show notes plus you've been seeing lower thirds follow him on x it is a great follow get his book

01:01:33.740 the parasitic mind and cross your fingers that the next one suicidal empathy comes out sooner than later

01:01:39.660 we cannot we cannot wait and honestly we cannot like we can't wait you know i mean that in a very

01:01:46.780 literal sense it's been great to see you thank you so much thank you michelle pleasure

01:01:51.660 talking to you anytime

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - January 07, 2025

Trudeau's Resignation, Islam, and Suicidal Empathy (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_779)

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