The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

Gad Saad

Oct 2020 · Blackstone Publishing · Narrated by Jim Meskimen

About this audiobook

“Read this book, strengthen your resolve, and help us all return to reason.” —JORDAN PETERSON

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 have 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.

Ratings and reviews

For year I felt like I was alone, fighting a battle that didn't exist. The Fact is, it does exist. The war zone of the mind is like bait on a sinker with no fisher in the boat. I'm not alone is the philosophy that society is brainwashing itself into believing fantasy over fact. -Don't be afraid to leave the herd to lead yourself to water- Kyle Weatherall Feb 21-2021

horrible book, first 50 pages worthless.... and it turns out he's a racist.

Love this book. Less than 2 hours left.

About the author

Gad Saad, PhD, one of the best-known public intellectuals fighting the tyranny of political correctness, is a professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, where he held the Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption from 2008 to 2018. A pioneer in the application of evolutionary psychology to consumer behavior, he is the author of The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption, The Consuming Instinct, and numerous scientific papers and the editor of the book Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences. A blogger for Psychology Today, he has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal and interviewed by Dave Rubin, Glenn Beck, and Joe Rogan.

Jim Meskimen is an audiobook narrator and a stage, film, and television actor who has appeared in many well-known movies and television shows.