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The Amazon blurb says that "Read this book, strengthen your resolve, and help us all return to reason." —JORDAN PETERSON

PC is a virus that is killing common sense in the West

The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism [not the radical leftist 'liberal' horse puckey] has 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.

Dr. Saad is seeking to inoculate people against a class of destructive ideas [PC] that destroy our capacity to reason

Dr. Saad says: "I am a parasitologist of the human mind, seeking to inoculate people against a class of destructive ideas that destroy our capacity to reason.

"Upon reading this book, I hope that readers will walk away with a renewed sense of optimism. We may have fallen into an abyss of infinite lunacy, but it is not too late to grab hold of the rope of reason and hoist ourselves back into the warm light of logic, science, and common sense.

We may have fallen into an abyss of infinite lunacy, but it is not too late to grab hold of the rope of reason and hoist ourselves back into the warm light of logic, science, and common sense

Dr. Saad is a free thinker who is allergic to go-along, get-along group think—the ideals that drive his life are freedom and truth, and any attack on these ideals represents an existential threat to all that he holds dear

"On a personal level, I am a free thinker who is allergic to go-along, get-along group think. The ideals that drive my life are freedom and truth, and any attack on these ideals represents an existential threat to all that I hold dear. I am also the product of my unique life trajectory shaped by two wars. While few people will ever experience the horrors of war, I have faced two great wars in my life: the Lebanese Civil War and the war against reason, science, and logic that has been unleashed in the West, especially on North American university campuses. [Similar to the way China gifted us with Covid-19.]

Postmodernism is a parasitic virus that rejects the existence of objective truths—infected people reject fundamental truths and realities that are as evident as the pull of gravity

"Some of the parasitic viruses of the human mind that I tackle include postmodernism, radical feminism, and social constructivism, all of which largely flourish within one infected ecosystem: the university. While each mind virus constitutes a different strain of lunacy, they are all bound by the full rejection of reality and common sense—postmodernism rejects the existence of objective truths . . . infected people reject fundamental truths and realities that are as evident as the pull of gravity."

Even though campus activists and administrators and much of the media have embraced the concept of microaggression, much of the broader public—to their credit—has fiercely resisted it since it represents conditioned oversensitivity that divides us into victim groups of whining crybabies

The public has fiercely resisted microaggression propaganda since it represents conditioned oversensitivity that divides us into victim groups of whining crybabies

Dr. Saad's book is an exploration of the epidemiology of mind pathogens and the intervention strategies that will allow us to retrieve reason from the egregious enemies of truth. One such enemy is political correctness, which is enforced by the language police, the thought police, victimhood, moral relativism, identity politics, and the socal justice warriors.

This is how PC liberals debate

One enemy of truth is political correctness, which is enforced by the language police, the thought police, victimhood, moral relativism, identity politics, and the socal justice warriors—shown is a SJW 'discussion'

"Democrats, the left-wing media, and big tech are conspiring to install a fascist dictatorship in America. They want absolute control of all thought, speech, and then nominally of our economy. Social media giants and the leftist government elites—'the swamp'—have reasserted their hegemony by installing old Joe in the White House. They are all marching in the same direction while dissenters are stigmatized, demonized, framed, silenced and isolated for crimes they didn't commit. . . . Ronald Reagan said in 1987, that if fascism was to return to America, the left would bring it." (Source: Leftist fascism?, Gerald Christensen, Anaconda, Montana Standard)

See Leftist-Fascism and The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.

Democrats, the left-wing media, and big tech are conspiring to install a fascist dictatorship in America—they want absolute control of all thought

College students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like, wrongly believing that they are so fragile that hearing the wrong words or concepts will shatter them

Students want to be "protected" from ideas that differ from their own, as if these "snowflakes" will melt or these people will shatter.

There's a toxic pattern in colleges where education and learning has been ruined with all the little snowflakes running around policing speech to the degree that everyone is rendered mute

The trouble with snowflakes is that they are not hardy or robust—you give them a tiny bit of heat or wet them down and they melt into nothing like the witch in The Wizard of Oz

If you argue against critical race theory or black lives matter, you can expect the woke mob to descend upon you like killer bees, eager to cancel you, dox you, wreck your career and destroy your life

People are deathly afraid of expressing politically incorrect opinions or ANY opinion that fails to conform to the tenets of the liberal narrative. If you argue against critical race theory or black lives matter, you can expect the woke mob to descend upon you like killer bees, eager to cancel you, dox you, wreck your career and destroy your life.

The whole political correctness concept was a bad idea from the start. All the identity groups find every other word we say offensive or microaggressive, so communcation is nil. No one wants to have their speech edited

Following PC foolishness, most students will feel gagged most of the time, which will make them frustrated, angry, insulted, humiliated and eventually depressed

And this is, of course, why colleges rule by PC nonsense: with everyone scared to think and talk and contribute, the only safe move is to keep quiet or parrot the ugly, racist, liberal narrative. Such a repressive environment is a perfect setup for indoctrination rather than teaching and education. But these things have taken a back seat to indoctrination for many years in academia. The days of logically discussing subjects and debating the pros and cons of various positions are over. Like under fascism or communism, people are told what to believe. Freedom of speech? Thinking for yourself? Gone.

Like under fascism or communism, people are told what to believe—they are indoctrinated. Freedom of speech? Thinking for yourself? Gone.

New York Times' 1619 Project is one of the worst racist and vile pack of lies ever spewed, but instead of it being debated and discussed, it is indoctrinated into our young whether they like it or not

As Dr. Saad says, it is the left's pathogenic ideas that are leading us to an abyss of infinite, irrational darkness. So he is trying, in every way he knows how, to get us cured of our pathogens so that we may return to rationality, reason, and science.

"There’s a war against truth and if we don’t win it, intellectual freedom will be a casualty. 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 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." (Source: Gad Saad — The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense, Gad Saad and Michael Shermer, Skeptic)

We cannot give in to the tyrannical censors of political correctness if we value freedom in America

"The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense exposes the bad ideas—what Saad 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. In this exclusive interview, I speak to Gad Saad about idea pathogens, how they are infecting society, the consequences, and what we can do to immunise ourselves and fight for truth and the freedom of thought and speech. . . . Diversity, equity and inclusion start from a noble position but end-up becoming every single thing that we have fought against, in our fight to gain human dignity. Critical race theory is a grotesque repackaging of Nazism, but it packages itself as a fight against racism." (Source: A Conversation with Gad Saad on Parasitic Ideas and the War Against Truth, Gad Saad and Vikas Shah, Thought Economics)

For people with a radical program which ran directly counter to the wishes and traditions of the public of the western world, they could only undertake the state transformation and social transformation they desired by destroying the key alternate structures of authority outside the state: family, community, and civil society.

Liberals could only undertake the state transformation and social transformation they desired by destroying the key alternate structures of authority outside the state: family, community, and civil society

"In some cases, there are whole disciplines within the social sciences and the humanities that are complete quackery. And in a sense, many of the idea pathogens that I describe in The Parasitic Mind are precisely manifestations on that kind of stupidity. Postmodernism and critical race theory and identity politics and cultural relativism and biophobia, the fear of biology, all of these things have found their way within the social sciences, and they are dreadful ideas, because they're actually anti-scientific." (Source: The Parasitic Mind with Gad Saad, Gad Saad and Roger Dooley, rogerdooley.com)

Unlike other pandemics where biological pathogens are to blame, the current culprit is composed of a collection of bad ideas, spawned on university campuses

"Unlike other pandemics where biological pathogens are to blame, the current culprit is composed of a collection of bad ideas, spawned on university campuses, that chip away at our edifices of reason, freedom, and individual dignity.

"I posit that freedom of speech, the scientific method, intellectual diversity and a meritocratic ethos rooted in individual dignity rather than adherence to the ideology of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) are non-negotiable elements of a truly enlightened society. A fair society ensures that its members have equality of opportunities and not equality of outcomes.

"Student-activist social justice warriors (SJWs) might be outnumbered on campuses, yet they rule via the tyranny of the minority, backed by ‘progressive’ professors and campus administrators…" (Source: The Mad Truth: A Review of ‘The Parasitic Mind’ by Gad Saad, Sean Saraq, 514blog)

Antifa are like WWII German Storm Troopers using the same violent intimidation tactics; Like in a communist or fascist nation, no one dares speak their mind, do their own thinking, write the truth about history, political opinions, and private thoughts—it differs little from living in a dictatorship where people live in fear of being discovered

If they were to speak even more clearly, "rule via the tyranny of the minority" would turn into the use of blackmail, threats, and extortion to force the students to submit to the arm twisting of corrupt social justice warriors who think nothing of ruining lives, reputations, and careers of anyone who dares defy the ugly coercion to conform to pressures to lie and pretend to agree with the horrid, racist, anti-American, Marxist propaganda of leftist extremists. Like in a communist or fascist nation, no one dares speak their mind, do their own thinking, write the truth about history, political opinions, and private thoughts. It differs little from living in a dictatorship where people live in fear of being discovered.