Suicidal Empathy and the Decline of the West - on Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Podcast (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_752)
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🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If 10% of the people polled were rabid Jew haters, it would be a problem. One out of 10 is a maniac. |
| 0:08.3 | Where is this Jew hatred coming from? Maybe we went the wrong way with our immigration policy. |
| 0:15.0 | Bad ideas have consequences. To your earlier question, we originally think of them as though |
| 0:20.2 | they're just in some esoteric department in the humanities. |
| 0:24.0 | Yes, they may start there, but then they break out of the lab and they become our prime minister. |
| 0:29.7 | So beware. |
| 0:55.4 | Thank you. World renowned marketing professor Gadzad has been a pioneer in using evolutionary psychology to understand human behavior, publishing numerous scientific and scholarly papers. |
| 1:00.6 | He's been the associate editor of evolutionary psychology and he's the author of some big books that have reached international audiences around the world as bestsellers, including the |
| 1:06.4 | consuming instinct and the parasitic mind. He's currently the visiting professor and global ambassador at |
| 1:12.8 | Northwood University, and today he joins me to talk about his forthcoming book about suicidal |
| 1:18.6 | empathy and how this concept helps to explain the progressive forces which are threatening |
| 1:24.4 | basic Western values and principles that we too often take for granted. |
| 1:29.4 | Professor Gad said, welcome to this program. |
| 1:32.9 | Sure. Well, first, thank you so much for having me, Ayan. It's such a pleasure to be with you. |
| 1:36.5 | It's a delight to have you now on my podcast, which I am relaunching. |
| 1:48.8 | But I just look back with a great deal of pleasure on the conversation we had. You are a very well-known figure now in the world of people who are |
| 1:55.1 | thinking about the things, the challenges that we have today. You wrote a great deal about the things we are looking, and there is this phrase that you |
| 2:04.1 | coined suicidal empathy, which is the subject of your forthcoming book. |
| 2:09.6 | And I have a sense that it's going to cover a lot of what's going on today. |
| 2:14.0 | Can you please elaborate on that? |
| 2:16.1 | So suicidal empathy, let me kind of give the background to it, |
| 2:21.2 | the theoretical background, because I think it'll be relevant to your audience. Take, for example, |
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