Gad Saad: ‘Parasitic’ Ideas and Why Rational People Fall for Them
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 3 September 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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“What I call idea pathogens, these dreadful ideas… parasitize our minds, leading us to quietly go into the abyss of infinite lunacy,” says Gad Saad, a Lebanese-Canadian professor of marketing at Concordia University and author of, “The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense.”
From woke ideology to COVID dogma to postmodernism, we discuss the worst kinds of “idea pathogens” he sees in society today and why people fall for them.
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| 0:00.0 | What I call idea pathogens, these dreadful ideas |
| 0:03.6 | that just like an actual physical pathogen |
| 0:06.2 | can cause us harm, idea pathogens, |
| 0:09.1 | parasitize our minds, leading us to quietly go |
| 0:12.5 | into the abyss of infinite lunacy. |
| 0:14.6 | The most insidious, the worst of all idea pathogens |
| 0:18.4 | is postmodernism, because it fundamentally |
| 0:21.8 | attacks the epistemology of truth. |
| 0:24.2 | Today sit down with Gad Sad, |
| 0:26.2 | a Lebanese Canadian professor of marketing |
| 0:28.6 | at Concordia University, an author of The Parasitic Mind, |
| 0:32.3 | How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense. |
| 0:35.4 | What the Sam Harris story demonstrate |
| 0:37.5 | is that supremely intelligent and rational people |
| 0:41.5 | are not inoculated from parasitic thinking. |
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