The Parasitic Mind – A Review

The Parasitic Mind

How infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

By Gad Saad

Regency Publishing, October 6, 2020

225 pages (digital edition)

The author is an evolutionary behavioural scientist and university professor who has broadly observed the spread of the nefarious Wokism parasite throughout the West and is alarmed by the damage the infection is doing to Western societies and cultures.

Throughout the book he gives numerous examples of how reason and common sense have vanished from the West and been replaced by dangerous ideologies which are destroying Western societies.

His book has received praise such as the following:

“Gad Saad argues that ‘nefarious forces have slowly eroded the West’s commitment to reason, science, and the values of the Enlightenment’ and that these forces act like the weird brain parasites that alter the behavior of mice to make them less afraid of cats, driving human society towards a dark age of irrational prejudice and superstition. His courage, his rationality, and his enthusiasm for that much-neglected thing, the truth, shine through this powerful book.”

—MATT RIDLEY, PH.D., author of The Rational Optimist and How Innovation Works.

We can best illustrate the issues by directly quoting some of the most prominent examples of the parasitic mind the author offers in the book, especially noting the nefarious developments under the reign of Justin Trudeau.

“The central focus of this book is to explore another set of pathogens that are potentially as dangerous to the human condition: parasitic pathogens of the human mind. These are composed of thought patterns, belief systems, attitudes, and mindsets that parasitize one’s ability to think properly and accurately. Once these mind viruses take hold of one’s neuronal circuitry, the afflicted victim loses the ability to use reason, logic, and science to navigate the world. Instead, one sinks into an abyss of infinite lunacy best defined by a dogged and proud departure from reality, common sense, and truth.” (Page 26)

“The greatness of the West stems in part from its protection of fundamental freedoms and its commitment to reason and the scientific method (where appropriate). Over the past few decades though, several nefarious forces have slowly eroded the West’s commitment to reason, science, and the values of the Enlightenment. Such forces include political correctness (as enforced by the thought police).” (Page 29)

“Professors are intimidated into using nonsensical gender pronouns when addressing students lest they otherwise be committing a hate crime (see for instance Canada’s Bill C-16).” (Page 29)

[Bill C-16 is one of Justin Trudeau’s destructive legacies. The Bill inserted gender identity and gender expression in Canadian Human Rights Act and Criminal Code making it a hate crime subject to enhanced sentencing to misgender a claimant’s self-declared gender identity or expression. AD]

“The Canadian government’s allocation of endowed research chairs at Canadian universities (known as Canada Research Chairs) must now abide by an ‘Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Action Plan’ that ensures that more ‘women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities’ are appointed as chair-holders. Universities that do not abide by this action plan will have funding withheld.” (Page 61)

“Postmodernism proclaims that there are no objective truths. Evolutionary psychologists like myself recognize that human universals exist precisely because they constitute elements of a shared biological heritage. [At a dinner discussion with a ‘progressive’ guest], I would offer what I considered to be a human universal, and she would tell me why I was wrong. I began with what I was sure was an incontestable example: when it comes to Homo sapiens, only women bear children. She rolled her eyes at my gargantuan ‘stupidity’ and told me of a Japanese tribe where men somehow ‘spiritually’ bear children. She scolded me for focusing on the material and biological realm because this was what kept women barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen.” (Page 76)

“In my testimony, [before the legislative committee of the Canadian senate during the introduction of Bill C-16] I argued that my areas of teaching and research expertise, namely the application of evolutionary psychology to the behavioral sciences could easily be construed as violating Bill C-16. Some of the ‘progressive’ senators scoffed and laughed at such a possibility, while another accused me of being pro-genocide. Hence, in the twenty-first century, a chaired professor who is an evolutionary behavioral scientist has to testify in front of the Canadian senate that humans are a sexually reproducing and sexually dimorphic species composed of males and females.” (Page 77)

“The gods of victimhood recently offered a test case of competitive intersectionality. In Windsor, Ontario, a trans woman filed a human rights complaint against a spa that refused to provide ‘her’ with waxing services [for removing pubic hair]. The wax artist, a Muslim woman, was understandably reticent to wax a biological male…Another trans woman has filed fifteen complaints in British Columbia against spas that refused to perform a Brazilian wax on ‘her.’ An even more galling case pitted the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter against trans activists. Municipal funding to the shelter was halted because of its refusal to admit trans women.” (Page 84)

And then the author quotes this little gem about the feminist twisted logic of Hilary Clinton:

“In 1998, Hillary Clinton said at a conference on domestic violence in El Salvador that ‘Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.’

One might think that since, historically, men are the ones who have died in the millions, often for such noble causes as defending their countries, their homes, and their families, that they might be the primary victims of war, but no, women are always the victims. Gender studies programs are founded on the ‘I am a victim therefore I am’ ethos. All roads lead to victimhood.” (Page 91)

The parasitic infection of political correctness is by no means limited to North America. Here is an example of politically correct suppression of truth in Germany.

The “crime” committed by the 27-year-old Rotenburg AfD leader Marie-Thérèse Kaiser was to respond publicly to news that Afghan migrant workers would be relocated to Hamburg by accurately citing figures from the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany (BKA) which show Afghan males are disproportionately involved in the perpetration of serious sexual offences in Germany. (See the following chart):

Marie-Therese Kaiser was taken to court, fined 600 Euros and given a criminal record for speaking the truth.

The remainder of professor Saad’s book offers scientific data refuting the claims of the parasitic-infected minds which are negating all reason and rationality in the West.

The book was published in October 2020, before the current political developments to our south and the Trump-generated crises; hence the author is optimistic about the reign of Donald Trump.

Nevertheless, the book is highly recommended since it offers strong antidotes to the virus of politically-correct pathogens that have infected minds in the West and replaced merit with identity politics.

The following link allows you to download the book free of charge for personal reading. Scroll down the page until you see the PDF icon; click on the PDF icon and wait 15 seconds until it downloads onto the downloads section of your computer:

The Parasitic Mind – Full Text: https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/gad-saad/pdf-epub-the-parasitic-mind-how-infectious-ideas-are-killing-common-sense-download-94787982878/