Gad Saad

For example, people say ISIS is really due to whatever, Israel.

I mean, in some facile way, you could draw the causal link of how there was a vacuum that was created by the U.S.

when they debathized Iraq that allowed the next year.

So do we blame ISIS on American policy or the Zionist lobby?

Or does ISIS itself have any personal agency in terms of what it then does for the next 10 years that it's in power?

Do you see what I'm saying?

I do.

This is the old story.

I'm going to butcher it, but I quote it.

Let's pause it for a second, man.

This is a hammer.

He only sees the world as being made up of the nails, right?

So this is when you're presuming that there is greater explanatory power to a particular cause than there really is.

Look, I'll give you an example.

Okay.

let's suppose that the night before uh an eventual dictator that was going to become a dictator his parents felt particularly amorous that night and what made them amorous to then eventually conceive that guy who became a dictator who killed three million people is that they played barry white music because barry white music is baby making music so it is in a very

silly way, absolutely true that had Barry White not been such a great singer with a deep voice that makes the ladies drop the panties, then those two parents of the eventual dictator would not have had sex that night.

There was some facilitating mechanism that rendered them amorous on that particular night.

Whatever that mechanism is, it is absolutely true that we can lay the blame.

Some blame of that dictator eventually killing three million