Dr. Gad Saad

And I was amazed very early in my career to see how people could be completely resistant to what seems to me completely obvious and banal truths.

which is that human beings are shaped by biological forces.

For most of my social science colleagues, what makes us human is that we transcend our biology.

Biology matters for your dog.

Biology matters for the giraffe.

It matters for the mosquito.

But surely it can't apply to human beings.

And so that was my original idea of saying, you know what, even very intelligent people that have professor before their name could be complete morons.

And so that led me to write The Parasitic Mind, which came out this book right here, the yellow one,

It came out about five and a half years ago now.

It was in 2020 it came out.

That book looks at what happens to your brain when it is hijacked by ideological capture.

The next book, Suicidal Empathy, looks at what happens to your emotional system when it is hijacked.

So if I can hijack and parasitize...

both your thinking ability and your emotional ability, then I have you completely zombified.

And so that's the full story.

Yes, and most of them, regrettably, come from largely one side of the political aisle.

And that's not because I'm trying to make a political statement.

That's just the sheer reality.

Most of the, well, all of the parasitic ideas that I talk about in The Parasitic Mind, postmodernism,