Dr. Gad Saad

Now, here's the interesting point.

Across disciplines, you see a greater likelihood of parasitic ideas or a lesser likelihood.

So for example, I'm housed in the business school.

There is a lot less parasitic ideas.

If you're in an engineering school, there's a lot less parasitic ideas.

Why?

Because those disciplines are wedded to this thing called reality.

You can't build bridges using postmodernist physics.

The bridge collapses.

You can't develop an economic model to predict consumer choice using postmodernist feminist mathematics.

Then you won't predict anything.

So because those disciplines are applied disciplines rooted in reality,

They are, in a sense, they have a built-in inoculation against this kind of imbecility.

But if I'm in sociology and ethnic studies and Africana studies and lesbian dance therapy studies, then there is no link to those things, and therefore the lunacy can flourish anywhere.

unencumbered by reality and do you think this is american universities western universities worldwide do you think this is a worldwide issue oh it's a worldwide issue it's everywhere i mean wow canada by the way canada well let me let me correct myself it's a worldwide

Western issue.

So for example, if I'm at a Ethiopian university, I don't have the luxury to espouse the position that men too can menstruate because as Rob Henderson calls them luxury beliefs, right?

I don't have the luxury to espouse parasitic nonsense when I'm worried whether by the end of the day, my children are going to have their caloric needs met.

But when I live in a society of plenty, it becomes a form of intellectual or geastic nonsense, right?

Where I can demonstrate the amount of leisure I have by espousing things that are perfectly decoupled from reality.