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Fund welcome to worlds apart be my guest today likes to say that he takes intellectuals to come up with really stupid ideas ideas that down spread across society its like parasites draining the host organism and making him behave in strange and sometimes even south in danger in ways from identity politics to Council Culture to now emerging call that 19 age old how do seemingly noble propositions toxic well to discuss that im now in joined by god saad a professor in marketing of Concordia University and author of the newly released book the parasitic mind how infectious ideas killing commonsense chris aside its a great pleasure for me to talk to thank you very much for making the time you so much about me cheers now i mentioned some examples of what you call idea pathogens thoughts that seem to be well intentioned at least initially until you. Recognize that they pave the way to how what is some other case so also modernism is probably the granddaddy of all idea i have that just because
You so much for having me cheers now ive mentioned some examples of what you call idea pathogens thoughts that seem to be well intentioned at least initially until you recognise that they pave the way to how what are some others so also modernism is probably the ground daddy of all idea just because it reports that there are no absolute truths we are completely shackled by subjectivity we are shackled by our personal biases and as you might imagine there is a kernel of truth to that idea but when taken to the extreme it becomes very antiscientific because scientists do wake up every day under the working presumption that there are truths to be discovered so was modernism would be one feminism would be another it starts off as a great idea equity feminism is a good idea men and women should be equal under the law. The more for sizes and so a dreadful idea when it becomes men and women are biologically. English well everything is of the social construction so you start with a noble idea
Spreading beijing the greatest threat to washington today and its sign a spy scandal is unveiled. Welcome to the weekly here on our to international where we bring you the latest Headline News on the top stories from the past week. Paris was engulfed in renewed on rust on saturday over a controversial security bill 142 people were detained amid clashes with police riot officers use water cannon and tear gas as the situation spiraled out of control theres been huge anger over plans to protect Police Officers by handing them extra powers and boosting surveillance. Was at the rally for us. So we have seen the number of what i would describe the smash and grab spike the Police Members of the security. He forces going in to the crowds and crapping out individuals that they think of causing trouble buffaloed tensions where apostles accept a whooping for the Police Officers who are so hard to see gas already deployed to add to gases being used directly from arab source sprains x. The protests
A good idea men and women should be equal under the law but then it metamorphosis into a dreadful idea when it becomes men and women are biologically indistinguishable everything is a social construction so you start with a noble idea and that metamorphosis and so the history of american is much mutation here with the taking an idea out of proportion and i say lets mention the making absurd right nation to serve in the service of pursuing a originally noble goal. Now be here my mind has never been immunized against of d. D. T. I personally believe that long grass is prone to narcissism but is there something about these time in history that. Creates particular refer tell ground for this kind of process well i think so about 4050 years ago the idea of pathogens that i discussed in the book began to be spawn on University Campuses and as you so rightly mention in the introduction it truly takes intellectuals to come up with really dumb ideas especially here like i was quoting you by the