Suicidal Empathy Is Destroying The West | Gad Saad

About this episode

Gad Saad discusses the dangers of misplaced empathy and its role in societal decline.

Professor Gad Saad argues that empathy directed at the wrong targets becomes a tool of civilisational self-destruction, and that every idea enabling this collapse was spawned on a university campus. Drawing on his own experience fleeing Lebanon as a Jewish child, Saad examines Britain's grooming gang scandal, the pathologisation of masculinity, and the incoherence of Queers for Palestine, noting Gaza practises what he calls a gravity-based conversion therapy. He closes with a sobering prognosis: the auto-corrections exist, but the West currently lacks the fortitude to implement any of them. Gad Saad is a Lebanese-Canadian evolutionary behavioural scientist and professor of marketing at Concordia University in Montreal. Born in 1964 in Lebanon, he emigrated to Canada as a child. His academic work applies evolutionary psychology and Darwinian principles to consumer behaviour — he's a legitimate researcher with a substantial peer-reviewed publication record, not purely a public intellectual who drifted into academia. His public profile expanded dramatically through his podcast The Saad Truth, launched around 2014, and accelerated through his 2020 book The Parasitic Mind: How…

People in this episode

Host: John Anderson

Guest: Gad Saad

Topics covered

• empathy
• civilisational collapse
• masculinity
• grooming gang scandal
• Queers for Palestine
• evolutionary psychology

Keywords

• empathy
• civilisation
• masculinity
• Gaza
• Lebanon
• evolutionary psychology
• woke
• grooming gangs

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Concordia University, The Saad Truth

Books & works: The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

Places: Lebanon, Canada

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