If you're look around our society today and you think things just aren't right, well, you're not alone.

Western societies around the world are changing dramatically and often not for the better.

We are becoming less tolerant in the name of tolerance.

We are adopting and accepting ideas that actually eat away at the foundations of Western liberal democracy.

Hello and welcome to the full comment podcast.

My name is Brian Lulli, your host, and today our guest is God Sad, an academic and intellectual in the best sense of those words and someone who many of us have seen document the very issues and concerns that we're going to talk about today on his popular YouTube channel on

Joe Roggan podcast and elsewhere as well as in his best-selling books. Dr.

Gadzad is a visiting professor and global ambassador for Northwood University and he joins me today.

Gad thanks for the time.

Oh, I'm so glad to be with you Brian.

Thanks for having me.

I want to open with a quote that I grabbed off the back of your best selling book and recently became a bestseller again and we'll talk about that. But grab this off the the back dust cover and I want to read it to you and have

your react and tell me if you still feel the same way the back of the book and I don't think this was you writing it. There's a publisher's promotional bit but it's kind of summarized a lot of what you wrote about in the book. It said the West's commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously

threatened than it is today by the stifling forces of political correctness. Now,

that's from a book in 2020. In 2020, you said we had never been under more threat.

Do you still feel that

would you have imagined how bad it would be in 2024?

I was trying to think where you were,

I was trying to predict where you were going at this.

No, it's, I guess one of the ways I could answer your question is saying that the book is still selling like hot cakes which suggests that that what I hoped would be the final mind vaccine and inoculation against all this nonsense

has apparently not sufficiently worked because we are still facing the same issues if not those issues having

been exacerbated so the book remains timely precisely because the Phoenix of

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