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Gad Saad, Mind Viruses and Islam
COVID revealed that Western societies are not post-authoritarian
What if criminals aren’t evil?
The Islam ≠ Islamism Playlist at my Science Moment channel
If a colorblindness tech doesn’t augment veins, then it’s a scam
Europeans think they’re for free speech
Europeans mistakenly think they’re for free speech
A Primer on Paradigms, Symmetry, and our Solution to the Riddle of Induction
Shoot in portrait mode when you want to look your audience in the eyes
It’s not just Islam that’s susceptible to collectivism and crimes against humanity
We Don’t Blame the Allies for German Civilians. So why blame Israel?
The Tell: Only one side thinks the other wants genocide
How paradigms contribute to different realities
‘‘It takes a village’ was an accidental nod to decentralization
We Don’t Discover Alone. Why Should AI?
I noticed something strikingly different about the Covid and 10/7 social manias
Sociopolitical hallucinations of 10/7 facts
It’s not fair to ask an LLM to suddenly do new science
Sociopolitical hallucinations of COVID-related facts
Top signs the pro-Palestine Left is in a social mania triggered by 10/7
Ethics Don’t Divide Us — Hallucinated Facts Do
It’s Not Just Islam that’s Susceptible to Collectivism
Five kindred principles that ground respect for the inviolability of liberty
What if criminals aren’t evil?
Find me on the Randall Bock Show talking about Motorcycle Mind, Charlie Kirk, and cancellation
Which is worse? Criminal evil or tribal evil?
Colonial Cooties and the Racism of Low Expectations
The role of Islamists in 20th century democides
The Moral of the Holocaust Isn’t What You Think
The Real War Isn’t Islam vs the West, but Islamism vs Everyone
The medical community failed on trans
Grokipedia and the Vanishing Record
A shout out by Dr. Drew and Adam Carolla about the physics of sociopolitical movements
“Ackshyually, Communism / Islamism are our freedom fighters”
The Unholy Alliance Between the Western Left and Islamism
Censorship induces memory-holing before the speech is even uttered
What’s worse? An intolerant government or an intolerant culture?
State tolerance is important, but the real game changer is having a tolerant populace
Free speech, Charlie Kirk and Motorcycles on America Out Loud News
Politics Is Downstream of Culture — and Culture Is Downstream of Character
I wish someone had explained counter-steering like this
A partial list of the last quarter century of Leftist virtue signals
The difference between Hamas and Israel couldn’t be more stark
Never forget that it was the massacre itself that spawned the worldwide Jew-hatred
This one thing was even worse than the Covid mandates
State-Populace Tolerance Matrix
Forget tolerance. Be a civil savage.
Beware asking the State to be “safe” from something, including illegal immigration
10/7 and Kirk: A Shared Logic of Hatred
“…but free speech isn’t working!”
Cancel Culture Isn’t Self-Defense — It’s Poison
Cancel Culture Isn’t Self-Defense — It’s Poison
Why do they seem to be immune to humiliation? Because your social currency has no value to them
“Our side can cancel better than you!”
Cancel culture is self-defeating
Freedom is more about the state of minds than the State
Cancel culture just IS totalitarianism
Mob-Pressured Firings Aren’t Free Speech
Humiliate, not cancel, those who publicly reveled in Charlie Kirk’s murder
Brains and sociopolitical communities
On those who distanced themselves from Charlie Kirk after the murder
Our cries should be, “You’re wrong because X,” not, “Hey employer, fire him.”
Here’s why we should humiliate, not cancel, those who publicly reveled in Charlie Kirk’s murder
Violent texts are neither necessary nor sufficient for violent movements
“Charlie Kirk supported gun rights and so deserved to be killed”
Illusions, speed and motorcycle helmets
Membership signal to virtue signal to political purity test
My View on 10/7 and the War in Contrast to the Common Poles
They’re not pronouns — they’re political purity tests
Why aren’t “Pro-Palestine” groups called “Pro-Islamic-Republic-of-Iran”?
The Currency Model of Sociopolitical Communities
Same Violence, Different Labels: How We Excuse Christian Societies But Blame Islam
Why is History End Up about the Rise and Fall of “Great Men”?
Covid wasn’t a run-of-the-mill moral panic
Constructivist Left, Exceptionalist Right and Zoocentric Freedom
Since 2020 we got to experience two worldwide mass hysterias: Covid and 10/7
Pandemic Logic: 25 contradictions you were asked to accept
Why didn’t they candy coat lockdowns and masks with Orwellian euphemisms
Human Nature and Politics: Three Lenses, Three Outcomes
Why the Left and Right both get human nature wrong
The Libertarian Trap of Statism
Useless, harmful and tyrannical by design
How Liberty Survives the Next Mania
How Countersteering Makes You One with the Motorcycle
Sports isn’t about the athleticism — it’s about the emotions
Four (poor) reasons people equate evil with bad intentions
Have censorship issues improved since 2022?
Do you recognize these sociopolitical types?
How AI will supercharge human intelligence
Capitalism is the only “-ism” you can opt out of
They Got Covid Wrong—Now They Want to Lead Again
Social narratives, scapegoating and why history is personal
Your Fat Emperor, Ivor Cummins, follows the classic Plandemic grifter arc
Motorcycle risks are greatly exaggerated
Decentralized Brilliance: Why Roads Work and Trains Don’t
Motorcycles are more dangerous than cars. So what?
Coldplay, HR and the Gossip Blockchain
The Danger of Conspiracy Thinking Isn’t Just That It’s Wrong — Powerlessness and Scapegoating
The meaning of music and why most motorcycles have no radio
How Dumb Do You Have to Be in 2025 to Blame the Jews for the World’s Problems?
More on the Left and Right as God-followers and Demon-battlers
With “freedom fighters” like these, who needs elite master-planning cabals?
The secret ingredient to AI is freedom
Evil without villains. Good without heroes.
Ivor Cummins now says his Covid authoritarianism advocacy was ackshyually 4D chess
The Same Forces That Build Can Destroy
The charge of "gEnOciDe!!" against Israel serves at least three purposes
More on your favorite Covid freedom fighter, Ivor, pushing for lockdowns
The 13 different Plandemic Theories
If military force might liberate people as a side effect, is that…bad?
Woke Right, and my appearance on The Misfit Patriot
Brain, AI, Freedom and Motorcycles: My Appearance on the Monkey in the Machine
My appearance on the Brian Nichols Show: Are Scientists Lying to You?
Pandemic Logic: All the Contradictions You Were Forced to Swallow
Why are memes so poorly constructed?
New IG podcast, @TheMotorcycleMind
Grok’s review of my first book, The Brain from 25000 Feet
Brain on Bikes: What Riding Tells Us About Being Human — My appearance on Futures Edge
Human political intuitions in a nutshell
Why are Jordan Peterson and James Lindsay getting Totalitarianism so wrong?!
What would actual anti-Israel arguments look like?
AI’s Greatest Secret: It’s the Free Marketplace of Ideas That Made It Smart
My appearance on the Baraka Show talking about free expression, Islam and Progressives
I just appeared on The Misfit Patriot talking about the Woke Right and my new book, Motorcycle Mind
Woke Left and Right believe in faerie tale races
Turning Japanese, or, How to Change Your Self's Ethnicity in Just 1 Week
Douglas Murray’s point to Comic Dave Smith about “Have you been there” was misunderstood
The Silent Movie Problem and the Evolution of Emotional Expressions
There be reputation in them thar hills!
How the far Woke Left and the far Woke Right meet at the authoritarian bottom
From membership signals to virtue signals to political purity tests
The Cassandra Conundrum for Societies: Either blind to the hysteria or helpless to stop it
My appearance on the Sharpe Way
AI Won’t Make Us Dumber—It Will Make Us Smarter Than Ever
Anti-Semitism attracts weak-minded cowards
Totalitarianism and motorcycles on the Fountainhead Forum
Genocidal hatred is always perceived to be justified
Brain evolution and why I don't wear a motorcycle helmet
Got my hands on a physical copy of Motorcycle Mind
Both sides are motivated to equate Muslims and Islamists
The secret ingredient to AI is freedom
Spectrum of Religious Observance and Identification Among Muslims
The trouble with free speech is everyone thinks they're for it
The trouble with government spending isn’t fraud, and that makes it worse
Three reasons why the charge of "gEnOciDe!" works as a virtue signal against Israel
Come join my Motorcycle Mind community at Twitter
Is Islamofascism because of Islam?
Let the market decide whether it wants lab-grown meat
My seventh book! MOTORCYCLE MIND: The Secrets Behind the Coolest Invention Ever
Top 22 reasons Hamas and Hezbollah might not be freedom fighters
Was it exemplary conduct or was it... genocide?
Find the principled position, not the one most opposed to your opposition. Part 2
Your helpful guide to who to blame for Islamist-inspired terror