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🗓️ 22 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Welcome to a special interview on Counterpoints with me, Melinda Newsephora. |
0:27.9 | Dr. Gad Saad is a professor of marketing at Concordia University and a trailblazer in applying evolutionary psychology to consumer behavior. |
0:38.3 | He's the best-selling author of the book The Parasitic Mind, |
0:41.3 | a fearless critique of ideological extremism, and also the host of the popular YouTube series, The Sad Truth. |
0:49.3 | Loved by his fans for his wit and championing of reason and science, |
0:56.0 | and perhaps equally loathed by his critics who disagree with his takes on society and politics. |
1:02.9 | Dr. Sad is a fierce advocate for free speech and intellectual freedom. |
1:08.4 | Dr. Sad, thank you for making time |
1:10.9 | and joining us here on CounterPoints. |
1:13.6 | Well, I'm delighted to be with you. |
1:15.0 | Thank you for having me. |
1:16.5 | You published The Parasitic Mind back in 2020, |
1:21.1 | but it's still being talked about |
1:22.9 | and critiqued across multiple platforms |
1:25.7 | as if it's a new release. Why do you think it continues to |
1:30.1 | resonate with readers? I think it's because many of the parasitic ideas that I discuss in the |
1:38.8 | book and I'd be happy to expand on why I use the term parasitic still hold true today. Many |
1:43.9 | people thought that with the |
1:45.5 | victory of Donald Trump, many of these ideological parasitic ideas would somehow cease to exist, |
1:52.6 | but it took between 50 to 100 years for these ideas to proliferate first in academia and then |
1:59.3 | in every nook and cranny of society. So it's going to take |
2:02.1 | a lot more than just Donald Trump coming for a second term for all of this nonsense to disappear. |
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