The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad
The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threatened than it is today by the stifling forces of political correctness.
Dr. Gad Saad, the host of the YouTube show THE SAAD TRUTH, exposes the bad ideas-what he calls “idea pathogens”-that are killing common sense and rational debate. Incubated in our universities and spread through the tyranny of political correctness, these ideas are endangering our most basic freedoms-including freedom of thought and speech.
The danger is grave, but as Dr. Saad shows, politically correct dogma is riddled with logical fallacies. We have powerful weapons to fight back with-if we have the courage to use them.
A provocative guide to defending reason and intellectual freedom and a battle cry for the preservation of our fundamental rights.
I've seen Gad Saad as a guest on Gutfeld!. I also get a newsletter from Regency Publishing and that's how I found out about this book. I'm sure he promoted it on Gutfeld! too, and I've had it on my TBR for a while, and I finally read it.
I found Saad made a lot of good arguments while also being funny. I laughed out loud a lot (LMAO at the the hoax paper about penises being the driving force behind climate change!) I like satire (as if watching Gutfeld! wasn't a giveaway).
I do disagree with Saad on page 122 about the the MMR vaccine and the rise in autism. There is something there to question and be skeptical of because how is it that there's a rise in autism around the same time the vaccine schedule for children increases astronomically? Hmm?
Back on topic, this book really showcases how universities are cesspools of insanity that then infiltrate the real world (culture, politic, etc.) I liked the part about activating your inner honey badger (Hufflepuff!) and don't appease people like Chamberlain did.
4 out of 5 Honey Badgers.
Favorite quotes:
Page 110: In 1944, young men stormed the beaches of Normandy to their near-certain deaths in a quest to combat true evil. Today, social justice warriors brave the evils of Halloween costumes and the diabolical professors who allow such sartorial bigotry to go unchecked.
Page 97: Trigger warnings infantile human resilience by coddling young adults into thinking that they do not possess the psychological strength to face life.
Page 98: ...Universal Trigger Warning: "Using your brain to navigate the real world should not entail a trigger warning. This course will assume that you posses the cognitive and emotional acuity of an adult. Life is your trigger warning."