By: Daren Jaime on April 17, 2025
A Personal Perspective on Modern Ideologies As I sit and reflect on my current beliefs about modern ideologies, I find through my years of diverse exposure an increased commitment to worldview views. Admittedly, growing up, I was indoctrinated into an American lens deeply steeped in Western culture and context. Now with a broader scope, I…
By: Chad Warren on April 17, 2025
The human mind is both fantastic and flawed. It is capable of deep reason and dangerous delusion. In George Orwell’s 1984, the protagonist Winston Smith lives in a world where truth is not discovered but manufactured by the oppressive regime of Big Brother. The Party controls not just the actions of its citizens, but even…
By: Kari on April 17, 2025
“Why do I need to wear those?” I protested to my dad. I was about six years old, and he insisted I wear white tights before church. His reasoning? “They’ll help keep you warm in the subzero temperatures,” I remember scoffing—did he really think that thin layer of nylon would make a difference? Even then,…
By: Elysse Burns on April 17, 2025
What About Modern Ideologies? A few years ago, a rumor circulated that schools were placing litter boxes in bathrooms to accommodate students who identified as furries[1]. I wasn’t living in the United States at the time, so I didn’t track how it all unfolded. Whether true or not, it’s telling that public discourse was stirred…
By: Julie O'Hara on April 17, 2025
Previous Understanding of Ideologies Lacking a clear definition of ideologies, I tend to believe they are the belief systems of people, dissatisfied with the status quo, who take religious, political, or philosophical beliefs to extremes. Ideologies appear to be a framework that their adherents believe will set the world to rights if only everyone gets…
By: Graham English on April 17, 2025
This week’s reading, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad, critically examines the prevailing worldview and approach to life that the author attributes to leftist academia. Saad posits that there is an escalating crusade in society to concoct increasingly irrational departures from reason as a signal of progressive virtue.[1]…
By: Debbie Owen on April 16, 2025
Special assignment: Before reading The Parasitic Mind by Gad Saad, answer these questions: What do I believe about “modern ideologies”? Why do I believe what I currently do? What are my current convictions and most deeply held beliefs and understandings based upon and why? Then do an inspectional reading. How have my beliefs been affirmed…
By: Adam Cheney on April 16, 2025
Pre-Reading on modern Ideologies: Let me first state that I am painting with a broad stroke here regarding modern ideologies. Secondly, let me state that I am primarily looking through a Western, American lens. There are Islamic ideologies that are also growing that I do not have space to dig into. Modernism: This ideology…
By: Ryan Thorson on April 16, 2025
Reflecting on ideologies is a little bit like reflecting on water when you’re a fish. The ideologies we ascribe to are often simply a part of our everyday lives and hard to notice unless we stop and think critically about them. As I began to think about modern ideologies, I realized that even the ability…
By: Jennifer Eckert on April 16, 2025
The Parasitic Mind by Dr. Gad Saad – My Beliefs about Modern Ideologies and Why: My belief system stands at the intersection of modernity and postmodernity, shaped by a lifetime of navigating both. As a Gen Xer, I came of age during a period of cultural transition. I absorbed values from an older, more communal…
By: Shela Sullivan on April 16, 2025
Introduction The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense [1]by Gad Saad refers to the idea that certain harmful and irrational beliefs, which he calls “idea pathogens,”[2] can infect the human mind much like biological parasites infect the body. These “idea pathogens” distort rational thinking and common sense, often leading to destructive outcomes…
By: Glyn Barrett on April 15, 2025
I picked up The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense with curiosity, and, I’ll admit, a little caution. As a Bible-believing Christian and a pastor, I’m used to navigating the waters where faith, reason, and culture intersect. Much of what I hold to is shaped by Scripture, prayer, tradition, and the…
By: Jeff Styer on April 14, 2025
What I already know What do I believe about modern ideologies? Sometimes you hear a term and because of the various ways in which it is used and where you are at in the semester, you must go back to the basics and look the term up. I looked up the term ideology on Philosophy…
By: Diane Tuttle on April 14, 2025
What I currently believe and why From high school science class, I learned that a parasite is an organism, my brain says a bug, which needs to actually live on another organism, a host, to keep it alive. It feeds off the host which provides nutrition to fuel its life. The problem is that in…
By: Christy on April 14, 2025
“Houston, We Have a Problem,” reports Apollo 13 to the NASA control station as they announced an oxygen tank explosion on the spacecraft. Similarly, Gad Saad reports on a critical failure of academia and liberal ideology from his perspective as a professor. Saad is a professor of marketing at Concordia University in Canada and shares…
By: Noel Liemam on April 13, 2025
Introduction “Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief,” by Jordan Peterson, Canadian clinical psychologist, is about how people come up with meaning of life through history, myth, psychology, and religion. The author attempts to shows the connections of myths, beliefs, science and how people try to understand life.[1] Themes Explored Peterson explores various essential themes…
By: Julie O'Hara on April 11, 2025
This is my third attempt at a post-worthy blog. To say I feel demoralized is an understatement. My personal anxiety over the weekly blogs is nearly crippling, and this week’s experience expanded the boundaries of suffering. Attempt number one was based on the video “Introduction to the Idea of God” which I watched as an…
By: Chad Warren on April 10, 2025
We live by stories. As a child, I tried convincing my mom that I had a radio in my head because I could recall music just as I heard it on the radio. I often imagined music playing as I engaged in playful activities, as if I were in a movie. I still love imagining…
By: Joel Zantingh on April 10, 2025
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson is a clinical psychologist, author, podcaster, cultural critic and former professor at the University of Toronto. Michelle Butterfield, writing for Global News in December 2024, described Peterson as “a public figure with a huge social media following that people appear to either fully embrace or abhor” [1]. His fame sky-rocketed when…
By: Daren Jaime on April 10, 2025
Trying to read this week’s expansive book, grasping the concepts and topics, and then bringing life application to it all-was a week of chaos. Writing this blog attempts to bring order to it. Order and chaos is the tension of this week’s text: In Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, Jordan Peterson introduces a…
