Waking Up with Sam Harris - If Grandma Had Balls, She’d Be Grandpa (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_498)

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🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The Sam Harris clip originates from this show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVnc4YZc9hQ&t=8s Post that @VivaFrei retweeted: https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1614292007463313411?s=20&t=fxwgb5tub0fBM3mVMSzvlg [wherein the cropped clip came to my attention] Note: The fair use clause applies to the Sam Harris clip in that I'm using it to critique the content of the clip in question. _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (January 15, 2023) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1500: https://youtu.be/YYqOZVZoZIQ _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Hi everybody this is God's had I hope that your weekend was a good one today I
0:06.7	want to read for you the passage from the parasitic mind which if you've yet to order and read why would you be
0:18.8	so irrational? I'm offering you the mind vaccine for all irrational ideologies or certainly all the ones that are
0:27.1	sinking the west into the abyss of infinite lunacy.
0:30.9	All you need to do is order the book, read it, gift it to others, and hopefully we can return to reason.
0:39.0	In any case, let me first read you this passage it's about two pages long and then I'll
0:47.4	contextualize why I'm doing so this is early in the book where I'm talking
0:51.4	about the two fundamental ideals that drive my life and
0:56.8	that is freedom and truth.
0:59.3	So here I'm talking about truth.
1:02.0	So it starts at the bottom of page 11. So here we go. When I'm exposed to intellectual
1:07.9	dishonesty and ideological dogma, I respond in a manner that is akin to someone being punched in the face.
1:15.0	I experience an adverse emotional and psychological reaction that compels me to fight back.
1:21.0	While I am a jovial and warm person, I can become a combative brawler when I witness
1:27.0	departures from reason that stem either from willful ignorance or from diabolical ideologically driven duplicity.
1:36.0	And the example that I'll be discussing today is exactly a manifestation of that.
1:41.3	The quest for truth should always supersede one's ego defensive desire to be proven right.
1:48.0	Remember that quote.
1:50.0	This is not an easy task because for most people it is difficult to admit to being wrong.
1:55.0	This is precisely why science is so liberating.
1:59.0	It offers a framework for auto-correction because scientific knowledge is always provisional.
2:04.0	An accepted scientific fact today might be refuted tomorrow.
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