Suicidal Empathy – Saad Gad (2026)

The bestselling author of The Parasitic Mind shows why empathy in politics leads to civilizational collapse. What happens when a society elevates victimhood to a virtue and decides that punishment is cruel? You get the disease Dr. Gad Saad calls suicidal empathy, and the West may be terminally infected. In Suicidal Empathy, Saad offers a blistering critique of maladaptively irrational altruism that has gripped our culture. This mind parasite has hijacked the empathy module of the progressive elite, leading to a catastrophic miscalibration of moral priorities. The results are everywhere, from coddling violent criminals and protecting rapists to branding self-defense as toxic behavior. Saad argues that a civilization in rapid decline is prioritizing the feelings of ostensibly marginalized groups over the truth, criminals over victims, and squatters over homeowners. This crisis of empathy creates a system of inverse morality in which the strong and successful are demonized while the destructive are celebrated. Suicidal Empathy is a wake-up call to stop ignoring survival instincts in the name of political correctness and recognize a culture actively choosing its own demise.