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118. The Parasitic Mind: Dr. Gad Saad

heretics. | andrew gold

Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4968 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Gad Saad believes woke culture is a parasite infecting our universities and all of academia. He was just on Joe Rogan once again, and is a Lebanese-Canadian evolutionary scientist, and is known for his appliance of evolutionary psychology to consumer behaviour. He discusses campus lunacy, cancel culture and collective Munchausen syndrome. Get his brilliant book, THE PARASITIC MIND: https://amzn.to/38AmWD8 Dr. Gad Saad links: https://twitter.com/GadSaad https://www.instagram.com/doctorgadsaad/?hl=es https://www.youtube.com/c/GadSaad/about Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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At Barclays, we're here for the land of football.

0:06.4

We're here for the Premier League.

0:09.1

And the Barclays Women's Super League.

0:12.2

We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance. We're

0:18.0

here for the grassroots and all the muddy boots. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.

0:25.0

Barclays, here for the land of football.

0:30.0

And that's the reason why most people turn to emotions rather than reason, because emotions are fast and frugal

0:37.2

euristics. They're quickly deployed. You're racist. You're a transform. It's a lot quicker for me to enunciate a position rooted in my emotions

0:46.7

than to spend three weeks building you the normal logical network that's going to convince you.

0:54.0

You're all infected. You're infected with parasitic ideologies, I tell you.

0:58.0

Everyone except me, that is.

1:00.0

All of you.

1:01.0

Anyway, that's enough hazing.

1:02.0

It's now time for me to introduce the one and only

1:05.2

Dr. Gad Sad. One of the most famous academics on the internet, even in the world,

1:10.8

Dr. Sad is a Lebanese Canadian evolutionary scientist and is known for his

1:15.7

appliance of evolutionary psychology to consumer behavior.

1:20.2

Now outside of academia he's also famous for his stance on an outspoken criticism of progressive culture and academic leftism.

1:29.0

In his fantastic book, The Parasitic Mind, he speaks of the ideological and anti-scientific concepts that take hold of people's brains like a parasite and tells us how to guard against that kind of magical thinking.

1:43.5

He's really a fascinating guy to speak to.

1:45.7

It was a pleasure and a lot of fun.

1:47.9

He uses great humor and wit and can also be quite abrasive,

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