Gad Saad The Parasitic Mind | How Bad Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
Disruptors
Rob Moore
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Rob interviews Dr. Gad Saad, a marketing professor who has argued for applying evolutionary psychology to marketing and consumer behaviour. Author of multiple books including The Parasitic Mind, Dr. Gad Saad draws from his groundbreaking research and lived experience and explains how certain ideas can parasitise our minds and shape our behaviour. His blend of scientific knowledge and honesty challenges us all to examine our thought patterns and societal assumptions while offering practical strategies for maintaining clear thinking in an increasingly complex world.
Gad Saad REVEALS:
- His concept of "suicidal empathy"
- Why our natural capacity for compassion can become pathologically self-destructive
- The revolutionary framework of "parasitic ideas," demonstrating how certain thought patterns can hijack our cognitive systems
- The role of high expectations in achievement, using his own family's approach to education to illustrate how cultural values shape success patterns across generations
- His analysis of institutional resilience explains why certain academic disciplines maintain stronger connections to reality
- Why the tendency to internalise success and externalise failure influences both personal development and societal prejudices.
- How to distinguish authentic conviction from surface-level virtue signalling
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| 0:00.0 | Dr. Sard, are Jews the most persecuted, if you could call it, race in history? |
| 0:08.4 | You're asking me to comment about whether I think that's true or not? |
| 0:12.0 | I think that it's certainly the most eternal form of hatred. |
| 0:17.2 | There is endless forms of bigotry that don't involve the Jews, |
| 0:20.7 | so certainly there isn't a monopoly of hatred specifically on the Jews. |
| 0:24.9 | But in terms of historical, you know, ubiquity, |
| 0:28.8 | then it would probably be that, yes, Jews have been probably the most persecuted people on earth. |
| 0:34.3 | And why do you think that is? |
| 0:35.8 | So there are many different viable and veretical explanations. |
| 0:41.7 | I've offered one that is rooted in, you know, my background in behavioral science and psychology. |
| 0:48.2 | There is a bias called the self-serving bias in psychology, whereby the way you attribute failures and successes |
| 0:56.1 | in your life. So, for example, most people have the following attributional style. I attribute successes |
| 1:02.5 | internally and I attribute failures externally. So I did very well on the exam because I'm a smart |
| 1:09.0 | guy and I studied hard. It's internal. Or if I did poorly on the exam, I did very poorly on the exam because I'm a smart guy and I studied hard. It's internal. Or if I did |
| 1:12.3 | poorly on the exam, I did very poorly on the exam because of that Jew bastard Professor Sad, right? |
| 1:18.4 | And so now for most people, other than clinically depressed people, that's a pretty healthy way |
| 1:24.3 | to go through life because it kind of gives you that rosy lens to protect your |
| 1:28.9 | ego. Now, imagine if I can have a mechanism by which I can attribute all failures externally, |
| 1:36.7 | as I just explained, and I've got the perfect culprit. It's the Jew. So why am I not successful? |
| 1:44.0 | Because the Jews control Hollywood? That's why I never |
| 1:47.5 | made it as a Hollywood star. Why am I not doing well financially? Because the Jews control banking. |
| 1:54.2 | Why am I not doing well in academia? That's because the Jews control academia. Why is there a problem in immigration in England with Muhammad's raping our daughters? |
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