The DeVory Darkins Show - Behavior expert issues MAJOR WARNING about Sucidial Empathy

Episode Date: July 2, 2026

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So in a shocking warning to America, Dr. God Saad in his book, Suicidal Empathy, lays out the principles behind what it is, why it's happening, and hopefully what we can do about it. And we talked about these things during our interview with him. So let's kick things off with my first question I had for him in regards to how people reacted to Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire. Some people will look at Elon and the incredible success that he has had in his life. And it's not as though he started from any place of privileged, right? So it's not as though he was handed a spoon in his mouth.

There are two ways you could respond to him. You could look at his success and say, my God, that is inspirational. What is the secret sauce of how he lives his life so I can try in some way to emulate it? And boy, is he deserving of all of his accolades? Or you could look at Elon and say, what is it that allows him to have so much more money than someone else who has so much less money, let me be the empathetic overlord, hence that's how it's related to suicidal empathy,

let me take all of his wealth, and I decide how I should redistributed to all worthy other people. And so in one case, Elon is someone that I should emulate and he's fully deserving of what he has. In the other case, if I am someone who is infected with parasitic socialism, I should take what he has,

and I decide to whom that should be distributed. Yeah, that was just a phenomenal insight from him. And it's something that I've seen even in my own personal life. You know, when you have parents who are drug addicts like I did and, you know, sexually abused as a kid, raised by a single mother, adopt the mother, passed away in high school, you learn very young, if you're lucky, I suppose, that it's not the situation that actually gets you. It's your reaction to it.

That really is the clear example of where you're at, with your understanding and awareness of yourself, emotionally, spiritually, right? And even your understanding of life overall, it took me some time to understand that these are not punishments. These are actually blessings that shape me to be the person I am today. And unfortunately, as it relates to Elon Musk, people don't have that same fundamental outlook. I mean, their perception of him, their reaction to him is only negative, which means they only see lack. They don't see abundance. And that's just a shame. All right, let's go to this next clip this is uh doctor said talking about how people are naturally uh tied to socialism so the reason why

socialism as a alluring idea never goes away with every new generation of imbeciles that are born there are new people who then decide that they like this idea although it is very much rooted in a kindergarten infantile logic it's because it caters to some of our most Basel, dark sentiments, envy, covetousness, right? Why is it that that guy over there has more than what I have, right? You see, that's exactly what I'm saying is I think the fundamental difference, especially in politics, is you have to pay attention to the person who wants you to feel and see lack and not abundance.

If they can make you see lack, if they can make you feel lack, if they can make you feel like, If they can make you feel like a victim, they're going to control you. That's really what's happening. It happens on both sides, but I would argue the Democrat Party's entire platform is based on victimization. And what results do they have to show to their constituents? Zero. That's why the leadership is essentially getting voted out at this point. So imagine if I could now package that sentiment, again, in an appeal to empathy,

in a wonderful utopian society called Unicornia, I will come along and I will get rid of this mean reality called Income Inequality. And I will create a world where we all can have equal access to education, equal access to health care, equal access to women, equal access to everything. We will live in a beautifully utopian, egalitarian society. Well, when I'm five years old, that sentiment makes perfect sense because I learn when I'm in kindergarten that it's not nice for me to hoard all of the toys while Johnny doesn't have any toys. That's why we learn sharing is caring. But then as I grow out of being five years old, there is this thing called reality that slaps me in the face, whereby I learn that it's probably not a good way to organize society whereby the government can take 50, 60,

70% of what I earn so that they can decide how to best spend it. What a phenomenal way to articulate all of that. And it really goes back to one of the principles from Thomas Sowell. I mean, there are no solutions. There's only tradeoffs. So if you want socialism, that comes with a tradeoff, that means you're not essentially going to own anything. You definitely don't have any freedoms. And you become a true slave to the government. Okay. I mean, that's just the bottom line right now. The beautiful thing about capitalism, it can help you put yourself in a position where you no longer become dependent on the government, right? You become interdependent, if that makes sense. You could work with

other people who are successful financially or even help people who are not well off. That's the beauty of capital. You can't do that with socialism. And here's the other thing. Where does the power originate from? Where will the money originate from? It will originate from the government, not the people. And that's the misunderstanding about it all. All right, let's go to this particular clip because once you go past socialism, now you're getting into communism

and why that form of government is not good for humankind. E.O. Wilson was a famous Harvard biologist who died a few years ago. He studied social ants. And you'll see in a second why I'm saying all this. Social ants have a very unique community structure.

There's a reproductive queen and then there is a completely indistinguishable cast of worker ants and an indistinguishable cast of soldier ants. So they are literally a communistic society. There's one big queen and everybody else is just a cog in the wheel.

When E.O. Wilson was asked, Professor Wilson, what are your views on communism? He paused and gave arguably one of the best pithy ants that I've ever heard. He said to the question, what do you think about communism? He said, great idea, wrong species. Because he recognized that the phylogenetic history of human beings, meaning the evolutionary history of human beings is not well suited for forced egalitarianism. Now, when he brought that up, I said, wow, that is an amazing analogy. Because the problem we

have in politics, I would, well, actually, I would say the problem we have in life, and again, just myself personally, is recognizing my level of ignorance. I think most people just don't want to respect their level of ignorance on things. Most people essentially don't understand capitalism. I didn't even understand. It's just like financial literacy. I didn't even understand financial literacy. No wonder I made bad decisions with my money. But when I started to understand it is when I changed. So the only reason why people, are even entertaining socialism? And why even some societies on this planet

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So click the link in the description below, scan the QR code you see here on the screen. and reserve your seat before it's gone. Communistic ants love communism. Human beings are a hierarchical species. Some of us are taller, shorter, better looking, less better working, more hardworking, less hardworking, more creative, less creative. So by definition, we assort on a hierarchy using a particular currency. So when you then come along and say, no, I'm going to erase your evolved human nature

and impose a sociopolitical economic system on you that is incongruent with human nature, we can predict that it's going to fail. It's been failed everywhere that it's been tried, but rest assured, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren will usher the real communism and it will work when they become the reproductive prince. Yeah, so what do you guys make of that analogy? I think that is one of the best ways to push back on communism, because the reason why he even brought that up is because some people will make the argument that China and these are your far-left individuals, by the way. China has figured it out.

And then they'll say, well, socialism hasn't been applied correctly in other countries. We can figure it out. But again, what other form of government has most people across the world wanting to get a taste of it? Most people don't want a taste of communism. Most people don't want a taste of socialism. But most people do want a taste of capitalism. But hey, I guess America. is going in the direction of socialism according to the left.

All right, let's go to this next clip. This is about victimization, as I said earlier. And really, it's more of a paradigm and a belief system that's passed down from one generation to the next. And here was Dr. Sadd's reaction to that. One of the reasons why people have presumed, and maybe I agree with them, that I'm difficult to cancel, is because in a true victimology hierarchy,

I hold the top victimology poker cards. Why? Because I don't have to manufacture a fake story of victimology, as Jesse Smollett did, or as Elizabeth Warren did. I had to escape execution in Lebanon. My parents were kidnapped and tortured by Fatah. My grandparents escaped Syria because of Jew hatred. My wife's family escaped Lebanon because they were going to be killed. Her ancestors escaped from the Armenian genocide. My brother-in-law's family, who are Egyptian Jews, escape Alexandria in the mid-1950s. So I don't need to construct a fake victimology story or to argue that it's intergenerational trauma.

It's within my lifetime that I've experienced victimhood. But what defines me is the fact that notwithstanding that I had to do with those things, I've overcome them and here I am on your show. So don't wallow in your bullshit victimology, rise above it. So then that begs the question, why do people buy into this? Why do well-off people, highly educated people, PhDs, you know, institutions, why do they buy into all of this? It's because they're removed from these circumstances. They have forgotten what it feels like to be the average Joe Schmo. And when you get to that level, you start hanging around people who have some misplaced guilt, misplaced empathy, or just are seeking to cash. capitalize on people's fear, these are the ideas that they come up with. Okay. I mean, I talk about DEI all the time. I mean, it was truly a racist program. I mean, white people are the one who actually made money off of it. And black people got the short end of the stick. Isn't that interesting?

It just doesn't make any sense. All right, let's go, speaking of empathy, let's go to this clip. And I think this is the summary of the entire interview that we did with him. Empathy is a perfectly rational evolutionarily selected trait. We are a social species. So it makes perfect evolutionary sense that we would have evolved the capacity to empathize with the other. For you and I to have a meaningful conversation on your show, I need to put myself in your mind and you vice versa. That's called cognitive empathy or theory of mind. So nobody is questioning the fact that empathy, when expressed within well-modulated zones, makes perfect adaptive sense. We want our our spouse to be empathetic. We want our best friend to be empathetic, our veterinarian, our therapist, our physician. So again, well-calibrated empathy is wonderful.

But like Aristotle explained to us several thousand years ago via his theory of the golden mean, too little of something is not good, too much of something is not good, and much of life is about finding that sweet spot. That exact principle applies to empathy. If I have no empathy, I'm likely to be a psychopath. that. If I have too much empathy, if it hyperfires in the wrong situations toward the wrong targets, I get suicidal empathy. So it's the dysregulation of empathy that I'm talking about. So why don't you guys give me your reaction in the comments section below? Definitely get his book

if you haven't already called suicidal empathy. The link to the full interview is below this video in the description. In our pen comment, it's on our other channel, the DeVoree Darkens interview channel where all our full interviews go. But listen, my biggest takeaway from that interview with Dr. Sad is just, it's as simple as we've been saying it on the show for quite some time. It's not the situation that kills you. It's your reaction to it. There are no solutions in life. There's only tradeoffs. And you better make sure that the tradeoffs are worth the squeeze. If that makes sense, that the tradeoffs lead to the best outcome for America. And the problem with one political party, they don't see it that way. They believe they can control the trade-offs,

that they can control the outcomes. They can't. And so that was another big takeaway. And, you know, he calls it suicidal empathy. I would actually call it fatal empathy in my opinion. But he did explain in the interview. We didn't show it in this video what the suicidal part really means. It sounds like on the surface, oh, people just committed suicide. But it's deeper than that. So I would encourage you guys to watch the full interview. Just share your takeaways and everything you got in the comments section below.