The Parasitic Mind How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

And so by a similar analogical reasoning, a statement is true or false, whether it's a plumber who said it or a eminent historian or a fancy professor. As a matter of fact, as I have explained repeatedly and certainly the parasitic mind, all of the parasitic ideas that I discuss in the parasitic mind stem from professors.

I thought maybe I'd give you, because I know that you know the parasitic mind really well. Yes. And so I wanted to kind of contextualize this book in relation to that book.

But for me to completely zombify you and hijack you, I also need to zombify your affective system. That's where suicidal empathy comes in.

We are a thinking and a feeling animal, right? Both our cognitive system is important and our affective system is important. For example, advertisers recognize that if I'm trying to sell you a mutual fund, I need to engage your cognitive system...

The parasitic mind was the story of what I need to do to hijack your cognitive system, your ability to think rationally. And hence, there were all these parasitic ideas that destroyed your capacity to think.

Cultural relativism is a parasitic idea that I discuss in the parasitic mind. It basically says, who are you to judge the beliefs and the practices of another culture?

So in one of my previous books, In the Parasitic Mind, I talk about how human minds can be parasitized not only by actual physical brain worms, but they could be parasitized by ideological brain worms.

I argue in the parasitic mind that our critical thinking expects the same thing. In order for you to develop good critical thinking abilities, you have to be put through the test.

So I can be all for transgender rights while also scoffing at the idea that men too can menstruate, right?

Even intelligent people can become babbling fools.

In the parasitic mind I talk about this issue when I talk about the ethos of victimology and I basically argue that in the same way that when you set a thermostat that it will either release heat or release air conditioning to for it to adhere to the temperature that you've set it at this is what we're doing with victimology.

Most importantly to me, he is the author of the amazing and very well worth your time book, The Parasitic Mind. How infectious ideas are killing common sense and he hosts a very popular YouTube show called The Sad Truth.

One of the things that I talk about in the parasitic mind is that this idea of anti fragility.

I discussed this story in the parasitic mind.

Your chapter eight is called to action. This is just a couple, you got to read it for yourself peeps, but trust me, it's worth your time.

Do not be a bystander as truth, reason, and logic call out for your help.

You need to read this book, but start by listening to Gad and then you can decide for yourself whether you want more of this brilliant man's thinking in your life because I know the answer is going to be yes.

Not only is he is he full of common sense and wisdom and insightful ways of looking at things, but he's funny.

But I do agree that, for example, if I am a hugely anti-woke professor as I am and my wife happens to be the most outlandish blue haired Taliban from Oberlin, I don't care that I am the model of masculine epitome and she is a gorgeous woman. We're probably not going to get along, right?

Now, just for people to know, in case they start writing you idiotic comments, the concept of sneaky fucker is not mine. It came up in in zoology in the 1970s applying that mechanism to explain male feminists is what I did.

Right? Basically, what I was arguing is that what male feminists are doing is manifesting that strategy that we see in the animal kingdom.

This is a sentence I never thought I'd say in my life. We've just hit 7 million subscribers on YouTube and I want to say a huge thank you to all of you that show up here every Monday and Thursday to watch our conversations from the bottom of my heart but also on behalf of my team who you don't always get to meet.

And so that's what that's what sent me on my journey to eventually write The Parasitic Mind 30 plus years ago.

When I lectured this in front of radical feminists, they'll come up, Dr. Saad, you're such a brilliant scientist.

In my academic work, the mere fact of saying that we're biological beings was the most triggering thing.

In my public engagement work, that's not directly related to my science. Well, it's a very long list, hence the parasitic mind.

your last book, the parasitic mind. When was that published, Gad? So it came out right in the midst of COVID October 2020 was the hardcover and then a year later in October 2021, the paperback came out.

in the parasitic mind I hope we have a chance to talk about my forthcoming book soon.

the parasitic mind ... I argue that human beings can be parasitized by another class of pathogens called idea pathogens.

in my book I first describe many of these idea pathogens postmodernism, social constructivism, biophobia, cultural relativism and a slew of other such parasites.

the last one was called the parasitic mind, where he outlines his theory of the woke mind virus, a notion that's been propagated quite extensively by none other than Elon Musk

the one prior to that was called The Parasitic Mind, How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

in chapter seven of the parasitic mind, where I talk about how to seek truth, I open up the chapter with a long quote by Leon Festinger

that's why I talk about ostrich parasitic syndrome in the previous book, because while the ostrich doesn't literally bury its head in the sand, the metaphor is very apt

The last one was called the parasitic mind, where he outlines his theory of the woke mind virus, a notion that's been propagated quite extensively by none other than Elon Musk.

In chapter seven of the parasitic mind, where I talk about how to seek truth, I open up the chapter with a long quote by Leon Festinger, the pioneer of theory of cognitive dissonance.

He wrote a brilliant book called The Parasitic Mind.

He said to me, gosh, I want to say a couple years ago, you have an obligation to say something.

You have no idea how fragile democracy actually is.

If you don't meet that responsibility, we will all pay for it individually and as a society.

Joining me now to discuss the author of the book The Parasitic Mind, how infectious ideas are killing common sense, and also a great podcaster, Mr. God Saad.

And hence that's why in the parasitic mind, if you might remember in chapter six, I have a whole chapter on ostrich parasitic syndrome.

As I explained the parasitic mind, you can't in the pursuit of some noble goal, murder and rape truth.

So it's covered partly in Parasitic Mind, my earlier book, and in my next book, which I call Suicidal Empathy, right?

But then when I noticed how much people would respond favorably to some 100 character thing that I put up on Twitter, and then they're saying, my God, that's changed my life. And I would say, really? That struck me as a rather banal, obvious point to make.

Because Parasitic Mind, the previous book was about negative mindsets, parasitic ideas that infect your brain. I thought, well, why don't I now complete the story and talk about winning mindsets, optimal choices that you can make.

he just wrote a spectacular book

called the parasitic mind

he's been battling wokeism his whole life

he has an incredible life story grew up in lebanon during the lebanese war his parents were kidnapped by palestinian terrorists he eventually moved to canada as a thriving wonderful life and he's just a great guy

The Parasitic Mind by my friend Gad Sad, another one really going after the woke and they picked him up as well.