Name: The Parasitic Mind How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
Uploaded: 2020-10-27T15:30:10+00:00
Duration: 36 min 2 s
Description: In this episode of The Carvaka Podcast, Dr. Gad Saad talks about his latest book "The Parasitic Mind How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense". The book tries to explain how idea pathogens are in

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In this episode of The Carvaka Podcast, Dr. Gad Saad talks about his latest book "The Parasitic Mind How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense". The book tries to explain how idea pathogens are infecting our minds and parasitizing us. He goes into tremendous detail in the book on how these different idea pathogens creep into our culture via different memes like postmodernism, radical feminism, political correctness, and identity politics.

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00:00 Intro
02:50 Reason to write this book
06:49 Discussion on Chapter 1&2 of The Parasitic Mind
09:55 SJWs and cultural exploitation
16:06 Threat to Freedom of Speech in Western Countries
19:00 Denialism and Islam and 'Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome'
25:11 Post Modernism and the 'Assault of Truth'
29:33 How to learn to say "I don't know"?
33:13 What's next from Dr. Saad
34:36 Closing Remarks

Dr.Gad Saad is a Lebanese-Canadian evolutionary psychologist at the John Molson School of Business (Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada), who applies evolutionary psychology to marketing and consumer behavior. He holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioural Sciences and Darwinian Consumption. He also writes a blog for Psychology Today titled Homo Consumericus and hosts a YouTube show named The Saad Truth.
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