He Fled Lebanon, Then Canada. Now He’s Warning America | Ep. 68 w/ Gad Saad

What is suicidal empathy — and why does Dr. Gad Saad believe it is the single greatest threat to Western civilization? Jeremy Boreing sits down with the evolutionary behavioral scientist and bestselling author of Suicidal Empathy and The Parasitic Mind for a wide-ranging, two-hour conversation about empathy, reason, immigration, Islam, free speech, and whether the West still has the will to survive. ► Subscribe to The Jeremy Boreing Show:    / @jeremyboreing   ► Support the show and shave with a company that doesn't hate you: https://www.jeremysrazors.com/ Gad Saad's story begins in Beirut. His family was one of the last Jewish families in Lebanon, and he lived through the first year of the Lebanese Civil War before they fled to Montreal when he was eleven. After years of threats and the post–October 7 climate at Concordia University, he left Canada for Mississippi, where he is now a professor at the University of Mississippi's Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom — and explains why immigrants who have "sampled from the buffet of societies" often become America's most passionate defenders. Clips from this episode: ► Where Do Parasitic Ideas Come From?:    • Where Do Parasitic Ideas Come From?   At the heart of the conversation is Saad's thesis: empathy is a noble, adaptive trait, but like Aristotle's golden mean, too little or too much becomes dangerous. Suicidal empathy fires in the wrong situations and targets the wrong people, the way cancer cells divide without stopping. He traces the "parasitic ideas" behind it — cultural relativism, postmodernism, identity politics — back to the university campus, where intellectuals are insulated from the "autocorrective slap of reality." Jeremy brings a Christian anthropology, arguing the left promises the fruits of the Kingdom — "neither Jew nor Greek, neither male nor female" — while leaving out the "in Christ." Then he presses the hardest questions: how do we solve suicidal empathy without throwing out liberty? Where is the line on immigration? How should Americans talk about Islam without condemning the decent neighbor down the street? Is the First Amendment a suicide pact? Along the way: civilizational seppuku, the wood cricket whose brain is hijacked by a parasite, the red-green alliance heading into the midterms, honor-shame culture online, and the grooming gang scandals in Britain. It closes on a challenge. Saad sees a cure for the West's condition but little evidence the West wants to take it. Jeremy pushes back with the wins — from state-level protections for minors to the overturning of Roe v. Wade — and argues that being born on third base in the freest nation in history comes with a responsibility, and a privilege, to fight for what's good. ► Get Gad Saad's book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0063446537 ► Jeremy's The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin is the #1 fantasy series on Amazon — watch it now on Prime Video: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detai... Chapters: 0:00 Cold Open and Gad Saad Joins the Show 1:49 From Beirut to Mississippi: Growing Up Jewish in Lebanon 7:06 Montreal, Threats & Leaving Canada 10:12 The Declaration of Independence Center — Can an Immigrant Defend American Freedom? 14:31 What Is Suicidal Empathy? 18:56 Where Do Parasitic Ideas Come From? 24:39 Noble Causes, Murdered Truths — "In Christ": The Left's Utopian Promise 30:07 Great Idea, Wrong Species — Why These Ideas End in Tyranny 36:51 Where's the Line on Immigration? 43:19 Churches in Mississippi & Saad on Faith 47:04 Is the First Amendment a Suicide Pact? The Superman Problem 49:26 Consilience, Analogical Reasoning & the Nomological Network 55:36 Fixing It Without Losing Freedom — Sharia vs. Blind Justice 1:03:16 Civilizational Seppuku — Is the West Becoming an Honor-Shame Culture? 1:10:47 Cultural Theory of Mind and the Wood Cricket 1:19:13 The Red-Green Alliance, "There Is No Islamism," and the Good Neighbor 1:31:12 Agency & the Menu of Choices 1:37:43 The Precautionary Principle, Crime vs. Ideology & "Your Freedoms Against You" 1:49:26 Why the West Blames Itself, Grooming Gangs & the Conspiracy Reflex 1:54:21 We Have Agency: Optimistic or Hopeful? 2:01:43 Jeremy Pushes Back: The Wins, Born on Third Base & Closing #GadSaad #SuicidalEmpathy #WesternCivilization #Immigration #FreeSpeech #TheParasiticMind #Christianity #TheJeremyBoreingShow #JeremyBoreing