{"id":6254,"date":"2023-04-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=6254"},"modified":"2023-01-01T17:27:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T17:27:30","slug":"looking-at-gad-saads-book-2020-the-parasitic-mind-part-12-of-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=6254","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Gad Saad’s Book (2020) “The Parasitic Mind” (Part 12 of 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

0083 The last blog ends with a question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer is sovereign power3b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a picture of the two-level interscope for the societyC<\/sub> tier<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 22<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0084 The postmodern academy3aC<\/sub> calls for sovereign acts and decrees2bC<\/sub> to enforce its organizational objectives2aC<\/sub>.  In particular, the state2bC<\/sub> must mandate the privileges(2c)2aC<\/sub> of those who self-identify as “oppessed”(2b)2aC<\/sub>.  Plus, the state2bC<\/sub> must force the unwanted identification of “oppressors”(2b)2aC<\/sub>, upon people who do not self-identify with the label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, the state2bC<\/sub> must support the postmodern academy3aC<\/sub> in its promotion and promulgation of the normal contexts of social constructionism(3a)2aC<\/sub>, critical theory(3b)2aC<\/sub> and social justice(3c)2aC<\/sub>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

0085 This is the demand.  Sovereign power2bC<\/sub> must favor the new academy3aC<\/sub> against people who stupidly and ignorantly attempt to situate orthodox viewscontra3a(2aC)<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0086 A divided world is subject to war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In chapter one, Gad Saad describes scary episodes typical for a divided world.  The first set of episodes<\/em> occurs in the Lebenese civil war<\/em>.  The second set of episodes<\/em> belongs to the war between postmodernism and modernism taking place on college campuses in the North America and Europe<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0087 Saad defines himself in a particular fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Definition?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to How To Define The Word “Religion”,<\/em> the normal context of definition3<\/sub><\/em> brings the actuality of a spoken term<\/em>(in this case, Professor Gad Saad)2<\/sub> into relation with the potential of meaning, presence and message1<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 23<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0088 Dr. Gad Saad is an actuality2<\/sub> that emerges from the potentials of meaning, presence and message1<\/sub> in the normal context of definition3<\/sub>.  The message1<\/sub> is freedom1<\/sub>.  The presence1<\/sub> is truth1<\/sub>.  The meaning1<\/sub> is located in chapter seven, concerning the nomological methods of cumulative evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evidence2<\/sub> is the basis for theory1<\/sub>, in the normal context of scientific inquiry3<\/sub>.  Professionally, Dr. Saad applies concepts in evolutionary psychology<\/em> to observations and measurements of cognitive psychology<\/em>.  The evidence<\/em> comes from cognitive psychology.  The nomological methods<\/em> come from biology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0089 According to Saad’s testimony in chapter one, he encounters the content-level normal context of social construction3a(2aC)<\/sub> in the 1990s, when he moves to Cornell for graduate studies.  He specializes in the application of evolutionary psychology to consumer behavior<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even at this time, publications in consumer research journals<\/em> are not scientific or philosophical.  They are postmodern.  They promote the idea that social construction3a(2aC)<\/sub><\/em> <\/sub>arises from the human will1a(2aC)<\/sub><\/em> <\/sub>and defines who the person chooses to be2a(2aC)<\/sub><\/em>.<\/sub>  Consumers<\/em> socially construct their realities<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

0083 The last blog ends with a question. The answer is sovereign power3b. 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