Dr. Gad Saad

a cultural imperialist, it's not for you to judge.

Well, guess what?

That's nonsense.

I stand before you judging cultures that think that cutting off the clitorises of five-year-old girls is within their purview of their religion, right?

So once you relativize everything, there is no objective truth.

There are no objective standards of universal aesthetics.

There is no objective morality.

then you descend into nihilism, into lunacy.

And so these are the specific parasitic ideas that I'm talking about.

Wow.

And do you think we're heading that way right now?

Well, certainly.

I mean, let me give you an example from art.

OK, because now I've been so far talking about, you know, ideas that parasitize the mind.

But when you go to a museum, you're trying to get your sense of aesthetics to be titillated.

Right.

I want to see a beautiful painting that makes me go, wow, how could such a person create such art?

Well, and I talk about this, by the way, in this book right here, in the yellow book, Parasitic Mind.

So in, I think it was 1996, this was, I'd only been a professor for a couple of years.

I was going to visit one of my colleagues who had done his PhD with me at Cornell.