154. Abandon Ideology | Gad Saad

What does the way your attention moves across a crowded restaurant have to do with why civilizations collapse? In this lecture, Jordan Peterson opens where you’d least expect a talk about God to begin—with Richard Dawkins, a problem in cognitive science, and the uncomfortable fac ...  Show more

What if the thought that just crossed your mind arrived the same way a prayer is answered? In this lecture, Jordan Peterson opens with a claim that sounds impossible and spends the next ninety minutes making it undeniable: that thinking is a kind of secularized prayer, that every ...  Show more

<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Gad Saad, Ph.D., is one of the best-known intellectuals fighting what he calls the tyranny of political correctness, often writing and speaking about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. A pioneer in the ap ...

Gad Saad is a Professor of Marketing at Concordia University, author of The Consuming Instinct and, more recently, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense. Self described as the 'Gadfather' with a podcast called the Saad Truth, he's certainly well versed ...  Show more

Items that I discussed in this episode:

1) Bassem Youssef - the Egyptian luminary

2) The cult of faux-niceness (as exemplified by Lex Fridman)

3) The "I don't judge" cult (as discussed in The Parasitic Mind)

4) Parasitic taxation

5) Justin Tr ...

Gad Saad is an evolutionary behavioural scientist at Concordia University, who is known for applying evolutionary psychology to marketing and consumer behaviour.We discuss the social justice virus, telling the truth and debate the importance of religion for morality.Subscribe to ...  Show more