Episode #397: Gad Saad on Social Justice Politics at Work

Oct 27, 2020

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Gad Saad is a Lebanese-Canadian evolutionary psychologist at the John Molson School of Business who applies evolutionary psychology to marketing and consumer behaviour.

His latest book is The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense, and it explores the numerous idea pathogens permeating today’s social landscape, such as, but not limited to post-modernism.

We covered lots of ground in this rapid fire 30-minute conversation with Saad, including:

How dangerous fringe ideas are permeating the mainstream
The problem with Diversity and Inclusion programs
Social media censorship and free speech absolutism
Fake news
Social justice politics at Google and Spotify
Falsification theory
The tyranny of the minority
How the silent majority can stand up
And, why rapper 50 Cent is, apparently, no longer black

This was a very important discussion about ideas that hold truth firmly in their crosshairs, and can have devastating consequences on how we work and live if kept unchecked. We can either bury our heads in the sand, or, we can listen, learn, and act, so with that I bring you the one and only, Gad Saad.

Show Notes:

The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense: https://amzn.to/3ovHsbl
Website: com
The Saad Truth on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLH7qUqM0PLieCVaHA7RegA
Twitter: @GadSaad

Previous books:

The Consuming Instinct https://amzn.to/37QzGTL
The Evolutionary Biases of Consumption https://amzn.to/31M9WUm