Dr. Gad Saad
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Let's have at it.
Beautiful, beautiful.
No, I mean, again, speaking out against the specific parasitic ideas of today is a more recent thing.
But the fact that academics are very tepid, very meek, very cowardly is regrettably a feature of becoming an academic, right?
I mean, one of the things that I love about academics
Take, for example, do you know who Marcus Aurelius is?
Yes?
Yeah.
Okay.
So Marcus Aurelius is my guy.
Why?
Because this guy is emperor of Rome.
I mean, he's doing shit.
He's busy.
He's the most powerful man in the world.
Meanwhile, he also wants to have time to read his books and to engage in philosophy.
So he's both brawn and brain.
Yes?
Yeah.
What I love about, say, Victor Davis Hanson, I mean, not to compare Victor Davis Hanson to Marcus Aurelius, but Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist.