The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

by Gad Saad

Overview

"Read this book, strengthen your resolve, and help us all return to reason."  —JORDAN PETERSON

The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism have become endangered by a series of viral forces in our society today. Renowned host of the popular YouTube show “The SAAD Truth”, Dr. Gad Saad exposes how an epidemic of idea pathogens are spreading like a virus and killing common sense in the West. Serving as a powerful follow-up to Jordan Peterson’s book 12 Rules for Life Dr. Saad unpacks what is really happening in progressive safe zones, why we need to be paying more attention to these trends, and what we must do to stop the spread of dangerous thinking. A professor at Concordia University who has witnessed this troubling epidemic first-hand, Dr. Saad dissects a multitude of these concerning forces (corrupt thought patterns, belief systems, attitudes, etc.) that have given rise to a stifling political correctness in our society and how these have created serious consequences that must be remedied–before it’s too late.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621579939
Publisher:	Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date:	10/06/2020
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	76,402
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Dr. Gad Saad, the host of the popular YouTube show The Saad Truth and a blogger for Psychology Today, is a professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. He held the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption (2008–2018) and is the author of The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption, The Consuming Instinct, numerous scientific papers, and the national bestseller The Parasitic Mind. He lives with his family in Montreal, Canada.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Chapter 1 From Civil War to the Battle of Ideas 1

Chapter 2 Thinking versus Feeling, Truth versus Hurt Feelings 23

Chapter 3 Non-Negotiable Elements of a Free and Modern Society 41

Chapter 4 Anti-Science, Anti-Reason, and Illiberal Movements 69

Chapter 5 Campus Lunacy: The Rise of the Social Justice Warrior 93

Chapter 6 Departures from Reason: Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome 121

Chapter 7 How to Seek Truth: Nomological Networks of Cumulative Evidence 141

Chapter 8 Call to Action 141

Acknowledgements 193

Notes 195

Index 229