Gad Saad on Hysteria and “Collective Munchausen” around Donald Trump

Areo ^ | January 23, 2017 | Malhar Mali

[Louis Foxwell]

Article found at FrontPage. Entire article from original source posted here. Extremely important insights about the fundamental nature of opposition to Trump. It is a profoundly debilitating illness.

[P.O.E.]

Good read, thanks.

[Louis Foxwell]

Ping to Greenfield ping list. The article contains significant insights about the pathological nature of anti-Trumpism.

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

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[MarMema]

I love this. Thanks!

[silverleaf]

Great article - he’s brilliant

[Nifster]

In lots of academic speak he has said what we all know to be true... The Left took over education

[JubJub]

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[Buttons12]

Pregnant women want pickles. Well, pickles are a food source that serves an anti-microbial function. During organogenesis, women avoid foods that, on average, might have a higher load of pathogens and crave foods that might help their body resolve the fact that they could have ingested some teratogens. Women throw up as a built-in mechanism to guard against the possibility of having been exposed to pathogens, and they do this (without any conscious volition) to protect the fetus.

Echoes of Pangloss.

[Twinkie]

People are generally too quick to want to prevent the
body’s natural defense reactions that are totally
spontaneous. So, they reach for the Imodium AD at the
first sign of a little diarrhea. . when the body may just
be attempting to rid itself of internal poisons (from
tainted food or what ever).

[Hegemony Cricket]

Bookmarking for later

[GOPJ]

The academic setting, media elite, and the Hollywood elite are all part of the Left-wing lunacy. So everyday I don’t face the threat of the KKK or Right-wing fascism but I do see the extraordinary harm that is caused by what takes place in universities. That reality is caused by Left-wing lunacy.

Our culture should save proof of liberal hysteria - it'll be textbook stuff in the future: of what 'cultures must avoid' to survive. Oh, and 'hello' to those in the future studying this period in our history... Crazy as it might seem - there really are professors feeding this type of insanity. It's not an exaggeration.

[Impala64ssa]

Bfl

[left that other site]

Brilliant!

Thanks for your faithful posting of these articles. I don’t always comment, but I ALWAYS read them.

[Chickensoup]

Excellent

[Albion Wilde]

Terrific article; thanks, Louis Foxwell. The author mentions Heterodox Academy, a large and varied organization of professors who are concerned about the damage to higher education caused by viewpoint discrimination. Here is the statement of endorsement affirmed by all members of Heterodox Academy:

"I believe that university life requires that people with diverse viewpoints and perspectives encounter each other in an environment where they feel free to speak up and challenge each other. I am concerned that many academic fields and universities currently lack sufficient viewpoint diversity—particularly political diversity. I will support viewpoint diversity in my academic field, my university, my department, and my classroom.”

If you or any of your closeted conservative friends in academia would like to review the list of signers, or click on their links to articles they have written about the abuse of free speech at universities, click on Heterodox Academy's "About Us" page.

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[Mrs. Don-o]

"Echoes of Pangloss."

Or a Just-So Story.

[timestax]

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[Mercat]

Good article.

[exDemMom]

To paraphrase Theodosius Dobzhansky, nothing about the human condition makes sense except in the light of evolutionary psychology.

I would like to see Dr. Saad use his academic expertise to scientifically investigate and explain the propensity for people to fall into leftist ideologies. To an extent, the propensity seems to fall roughly along the lines of sexual dimorphism--that is, women are far more likely to be lunatic leftists as men. This dimorphism is not as pronounced as the dimorphism governing physical strength, but is unmistakably there.

Radical leftism seems to afflict mostly those who live in crowded conditions. Perhaps something about being surrounded by strangers sets off a normal defense mechanism, elevating it to pathological levels. There is always some level of defensive mechanism that kicks in when one is confronted with a stranger, especially if you are a small woman; could sinking into leftist ideology be a pathology resulting from having that normal defensive mechanism constantly activated by being surrounded by strangers?

I would equate this to how dioxin causes toxicity. Certain chemicals in food activate a toxic response pathway that stays active until the toxins are destroyed and then shuts off. However, the body cannot destroy dioxin, so the pathway never shuts down when someone has ingested dioxin. The failure to shut off this perfectly normal response results in a number of pathologies which can ultimately cause death.

[MoochPooch]

These people are probably afraid of the changing culture. It’s like discovering you’re no longer the cool kid in the class, the queen bee of the hive. They are slowly losing their importance.