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Speaker 1: We are both a thinking and a feeling animal. The
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Speaker 1: parasitic mind looked at what happens to our cognitive system
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Speaker 1: when it is hijacked and parasitized so with cidal empathy,
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Speaker 1: then completes that story by arguing that if I truly
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Speaker 1: wish to hijack your ability to think critically, I also
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Speaker 1: have to parasitize your affective system. Once I have done
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Speaker 1: both of these deeds, then you become the wood cricket.
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Speaker 1: And let me explain what I mean by that, because
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Speaker 1: it's a very powerful analogy. A wood cricket an actual insect.
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Speaker 1: The wood cricket abhors water. It wants nothing to do
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Speaker 1: with water. But when it is parasitized by a hairworm,
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Speaker 1: the hairworm needs the wood cricket to merrely jump into water,
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Speaker 1: happily commits suicide so that it could complete its reproductive cycle.
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Speaker 1: So now you can understand how that white woman being
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Speaker 1: raped and that rooftop and saying that it's due to
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Speaker 1: white supremacy when a black guy was shaping her is
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Speaker 1: exactly the wood cricket. It's absolutely extraordinary