The Saad Truth Meets 21st Century America: Suicidal Empathy and Our Demise 
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The Saad Truth Meets 21st Century America: Suicidal Empathy and Our Demise
Gad Saad (pictured in an illustration with President Trump) is an evolutionary behavioral scientist, marketing professor at Concordia University in Montreal, and host of The Saad Truth podcast. He has become one of the most provocative cultural critics of modern American progressive ideology. Building on his 2020 book The Parasitic Mind, which argued that political correctness and “idea pathogens” are destroying Western reason, Saad’s focus has increasingly centered on a specific framework outlined in his work on suicidal empathy. His central thesis is straightforward yet explosive: America is engineering its own civilizational decline because its greatest virtues—compassion, tolerance, and empathy—have been weaponized by progressive elites and pushed into pathological extremes that threaten the nation’s survival. In the 2020s, as American cities grapple with rising crime, universities become battlegrounds over free speech and identity politics, corporations implement sweeping DEI mandates, and progressive antisemitism surges on college campuses, Saad’s framework has gained remarkable traction among conservatives, tech leaders, and cultural commentators who see his theory as explaining the seemingly inexplicable self-destruction of American institutions. The Core Theory: What is ‘Suicidal Empathy’? Saad defines suicidal empathy (or “maladaptively irrational altruism”) as the psychological inability to make rational, self-preserving decisions because a society has
