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Parasitic ideas and suicidal empathy

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RethinkingLife · 29/05/2025 16:35

I’m struck by the power of these specific phrases (suicidal empathy) although I’m out of sympathy with some of the framing of the ideas (Trump as an “unequivocal repudiation of ideological parasites”).

The Parasitic Mind addressed what happens to our cognitive system when it is hijacked by ideological rapture. My forthcoming book Suicidal Empathy further examines the descent to madness by highlighting the inability to implement optimal decisions when our emotional system is tricked into an orgiastic hyperactive form of empathy, deployed on the wrong targets. This is how the rights of a minuscule minority of trans women (i.e., biological males) trample the rights of actual women in athletic competitions.

https://www.northwood.edu/news/parasitic-ideas-and-suicidal-empathy-are-killing-the-west/

This feels like a pithy description of what has happened and the one-sided empathy for one group and a wilful ignorance or indifference to the impact on women.

A man with gray hair and a beard smiles while wearing a black shirt, standing against a white brick wall.

Parasitic Ideas and Suicidal Empathy Are Killing the West - Northwood University

The following essay by Dr. Gad Saad, an outspoken public intellectual and trailblazer in applying evolutionary psychology to consumer behavior, appeared on

https://www.northwood.edu/news/parasitic-ideas-and-suicidal-empathy-are-killing-the-west/

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TheOtherRaven · 29/05/2025 17:21

Ideological rapture is a potent phrase. Thank you for sharing this.

RethinkingLife · 29/05/2025 18:08

TheOtherRaven · 29/05/2025 17:21

Ideological rapture is a potent phrase. Thank you for sharing this.

Such a fitting description of so many phenomena in this space.

Slavish adherents do seem to enjoy whipping themselves into a frenzy of self-abnegation and self-harming abdication of sex-based rights on behalf of others (whom they’ve not consulted and don’t share their ideology).

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