Gad Saad’s The Parasitic Mind is not a polite book. It’s a scalpel. It slices into the intellectual decay of our time with merciless precision and holds up the rotten tissue of modern ideology for everyone to see. Saad doesn’t waste time flattering the reader or cloaking his arguments in the soft cotton of academic jargon. He is blunt, unapologetic, and absolutely correct: our culture has been infected with parasitic ideas that are eating away at reason, freedom, and truth.
Where others tiptoe around cancel culture, identity politics, and the cult of “diversity,” Saad charges straight in with both barrels. He names the parasites: postmodern relativism, radical feminism, social justice fanaticism, and the endless alphabet soup of identity obsession. These are not harmless ideas. They are viruses of the mind, designed to disable critical thought, coerce conformity, and spread like contagion across institutions. Saad’s great strength lies in exposing this not as an accident but as a deliberate corrosion of Western civilization.
The book succeeds because it is not merely theoretical. Saad, a scientist and evolutionary psychologist, illustrates the madness with lived examples, students too terrified to speak, colleagues silenced, institutions abandoning reason for ideology. He shows us the chilling results of what happens when parasites take over the host: the death of debate, the strangulation of science, and the rise of mobs who scream “tolerance” while practicing tyranny.
Yet, this is no despairing work. The Parasitic Mind is a battle cry. Saad urges readers to practice what he calls “ostrich parasitic syndrome resistance”: speaking the truth loudly, refusing to bow to intimidation, and reasserting rationality as the bedrock of civilization. He calls for courage, not the fake, hashtag virtue-signalling kind, but real courage: the willingness to stand alone against the mob.
Critics will sneer, of course. They will say Saad is exaggerating, that his warnings are overblown. But look around: free speech throttled, professors purged, careers destroyed for a misused pronoun, corporations bending the knee to ideological commissars. Saad is not exaggerating, he is underestimating the speed of the collapse.
In short: The Parasitic Mind is not optional reading. It is a survival manual for anyone who still believes in truth over lies, reason over madness, and liberty over submission. If you want to understand the disease crippling the modern West, this is your diagnostic handbook. And if you still have a spine, it may just be your cure.
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