What Lionel Messi’s World Cup Win Represents (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_493)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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Society & Culture, Science, Education

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🗓️ 18 December 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Lionel Messi's World Cup win is an instantiation of pure cosmic justice. It is a celebration of beauty in various forms including immeasurable talent, limitless class, and astounding humility. It is a triumph of grit and perseverance, and an exemplar of the mythological timeless and universal hero. _______________________________________ 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 (December 18, 2022) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1495: https://youtu.be/gCo6Hd2p20g _______________________________________ 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 Gatsad December 18th 2022 just witnessed the
0:08.5	arguably the greatest soccer match of all time with the divine, Leonel Missy, winning the World Cup.
0:18.6	I can't tell you the elation, the existential joy that I feel at him having finally lifted it. I was going to
0:29.0	actually write an article describing you know many different angles to explore psychological angles that try to
0:40.8	unpack, you know, why it is that he can instill or trigger such emotions in billions
0:47.6	of people, including yours truly and including all of our, my family, all of whom were in complete tears. I was going to prepare a whole sort of
0:56.9	structured set of arguments but I'm too excited to let the moment pass so I
1:01.9	will just ad lib here and as I typically do when I can do these
1:07.3	sad truth clips and then maybe later I may come back with a more structured analysis.
1:15.0	I guess the first thing is the reason why messy means so much to me is because he actually transcends national borders.
1:25.2	Messy is not Argentinian.
1:27.8	Messy is intergalactic, right?
1:29.7	I'm not born in Argentina.
1:31.6	I'm not from Rosario, but I identify with him as does my
1:36.9	Brazilian colleague who texted me to say I'm rooting for messy now, as did billions of people all of whom don't come there's only 45
1:45.4	million Argentinians and yet everybody looks at messy and see something truly
1:51.6	unique and glorious. You know people might be inspired by a
1:56.5	great painting or a great poem or you know a great classical symphony.
2:06.6	Well, beauty comes in many forms.
2:08.8	And actually a few years ago, maybe I think it was a summer ago or two summers ago, I was asked to maybe do a chat
2:16.0	with A.C. Graling, the famous philosopher out of England on beauty, a discussion on beauty, and I was going to of course discuss the evolutionary
2:25.4	roots of beauty.
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