in a few minutes, I'll be delivering a lecture at UATX. It is part evolutionary psychology, part

the parasitic mind, and part my next book, my forthcoming book on suicidal empathy.

Thank you for heating the call from the soapbox and for being here nice and prompt

for another fantastic Wednesday speaker series,

or though I really shouldn't say another, because this is in fact a marquee event.

Our fantastic board of trustees, Brent, I can see you here in the audience tonight,

have asked us as a staff and a faculty to redouble our efforts in getting the leading public intellectuals,

not just in the United States, but in the world, to come here to campus, to enrich the intellectual lives of our students,

and to hopefully form more permanent relationships with the polity here at UATX.

Now what is a public intellectual is something that should become clear in Dean Morgan Marietta's introduction of our guest,

GADSADSAD, this evening. But GAD on behalf of the trustees, the management, the faculty, the staff and students here at the University of Austin,

a very warm welcome to you. And I'll hand over to the Dean to make your introductions.

Good afternoon, everyone. I will be brief, which shows that people can actually grow and change.

Because I want Professor Sadd to have as much time as possible to talk to you about his ideas and for you to ask him questions.

Because Gad Saad might be the most important public intellectual working today.

And what he is going to say is far more important

than anything that I would say. But just by way of introduction, allow me to say this one thing.

At a school like UATX, which claims to be in favor of open inquiry, which is to say that students and faculty

can ask any question they find compelling and claims to believe and promote courageous,

which means that students and faculty can look at any evidence

that they want to, especially the evidence that people don't want them to look at.

Such a university, I argue, should notice a distinction between what you could call a tame lion,

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