154. Abandon Ideology | Gad Saad

New essay publishing on Monday at: https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog/https://x.com/jordanbpeterson?lang=en The moment Moses strikes the rock instead of speaking to it, something breaks — not just in the story, but in the entire logic of leadership. This lecture traces the final ...  Show more

What do medieval alchemists, your recurring bad memories, and the reason you can't feel joy have in common? In this lecture, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson traces a single thread from Carl Jung's strangest work to a revolutionary discovery that emerged in four different scientific fields ...  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