a must read of our decade

loved how his book portrays the intellectual corruption of postmodernism and how it spreads everywhere like a cancer. Still the open question remains: why has it found fertile ground?

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Must listen in the 2020s

Important lessons about the woke mind virus and its devastating effects on society told in narratives easy to understand. Great listen!

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The root cause

Where have thinkers been? Why did it take a Donald Trump to bring to light what is eating away our society?
A must read on both sides of the border...

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Parts were great, parts were dry and drawn out

The audiobook starts of rather slow, but it gets really interesting in the middle. There were some genuinely great ideas and concepts especially around that time that gave me some reason to ponder. Saad's view on truth and science is a refreshingly conservative and reasoned analysis on how things should be.

However, the last 1 1/2 hours felt dry and unnecessarily streched. When he establishes an "Epistemological network" to criticize Islam he actually reads of all 26 top candidates on the FBI most wanted list for like 2 minutes non stop. This list reading occurs in similar fashion about 5x in the last 90 minutes, sometimes with the 20 most homophobe countries etc.
That is probably a fault if the audio book, in the real book you'd quickly glance over the list to get a good enough picture.
In any case this was worth listening to.

The narrator was clear and understandable, did a great job emphasizing sarcasm and a horrible job at foreign language pronunciation, but that is forgivable.

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Good, honest, direct. The reminder the world needs to speak its mind more and stop censorship and nice guy syndrome

Good, honest, direct. The reminder the world needs to speak its mind more and stop censorship and nice guy syndrome

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Wichtig, diese Gedanken gelesen / gehört zu haben

Um den besten Nutzen aus dem Buch zu ziehen, würde ich beim lesen / hören die eingene Meinung außen vor lassen und die gebrachten Argumente abwägen und mir dann daraus eine Meinung bilden. Zuhören / lesen zahlt sich auf jeden Fall aus.

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Common sense

The common sense book we needed back then, and still need perhaps more than ever.

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Definitely worthwhile

The book had been suggested to me by the Audible algorithm for some time. But, I hadn't cared to read, as I didn't know much about Gad Saad, except that I've seen him make sardonic remarks about this or that. As I've been in the unknown about the exact context of his remarks, I've not been dumbfounded by his wit.
Reading his book, though, he gained a lot of esteem.
I think the strength of the book is the combination of a multitude of anecdotes, a solid foundation in evolutionary psychology and his personal account. It is said that the plural of anecdote isn't data, but anecdotes. Yet, if the anecdotes are true, if they are exemplary, and if they are as numerous as Saad's, then they do serve as data/evidence that something has gone astray in the world of liberal academia and elsewhere.

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Well-Articulated Problem; Questionable Solution

If you are interested in the intellectual resistance to "politically correct" speech and policies, The Parasitic Mind hits the mark, with a solid foundation in reason, morality, and liberal principles.

There is one major caveat: the parts containing advice, often delivered without argument.

After having established the problem, the "solution" often becomes to fight back in ways that are rarely constructive for the individual doing so – unless their personal position happens to be very similar to the author's. Those not following the advice are called cowards. For a book that otherwise endorses evolutionary arguments, this is a jarring thoughtlessness considering evolutionary stability. If those who believe in truth and freedom need to sacrifice for the principles on net balance, while outnumbered by opponents who are unconstrained by principles, what strategy is likely to prevail in the long run?

You will not find a solution in this book. But you will find a clear description of the problem.

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An absolute must read for higher educators!

This book can be considered as a guide to the lost liberal society and a moral compass to young students. Well written Prof. Gad Saad. Thank you.

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