Dr. Gad Saad

But to your earlier point when you said, oh, I don't know exactly what you had asked, but like, oh, there's always the capacity to have parasitic ideas or something to that effect.

Your point is well taken because it's not as though the current reality

previous generations of human beings were not parasitized.

What's unique about the current moment are the specific parasitic ideas that have infected our brains today.

So 300 years ago in Salem, Massachusetts, I looked at my female neighbor.

I thought that she was very likely a witch and therefore

I and the rest of the community thought that it was a great idea to throw her in water.

And if she swam, then that proved that she was a witch.

And if she sank, then oops, I guess she wasn't a witch.

Now, that was a form of parasitic thinking, right?

When when people in in Europe thought that the

the Black Death, the Black Plague was really due to Jews, well, that was a form of parasitic thinking.

So the capacity for the human mind to be parasitized, it's an indelible part of the architecture of the human mind.

What is unique to this current period are the specific mind viruses.

And when you say specific, you mean like hijacked?

Exactly.

So I mean postmodernism.

This is a recent thing, 50 years ago.

Cultural relativism is another parasitic idea.

It basically purports who are we to judge the cultural beliefs or religious beliefs of another society.