Konstantin Kisin

So you have young people getting advice before they've even lived.

And it's so contradictory.

So if we talk about relationship advice, you can scroll through Twitter and see, always move in with someone before marriage.

And then the next tweet is, don't ever move in with someone before marriage.

You know, you have people like...

so passionate and sure that this is the way.

And I think the sad thing is, it's a lot of people thinking that you can protect yourself from vulnerability and the possibility of getting hurt.

And then you have a generation who has grown up in this sort of safetyism culture.

who have been infantilized and are maybe prone to risk aversion.

And then they're scrolling through people who are warning them all the time or raging about the state of the world.

And they have no life experience to put that in.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

And that's a big theme of the book is that...

We lost a lot of things and online we have substitutes and simulations for them.

But my generation don't realize that we're simulating something because we've forgotten what we had in the first place.

So something like Instagram, they think is a community because they've never experienced a community or neighbors.

Or instead of going out with friends, they watch influencers.

Or instead of speaking to their parents about relationships, they scroll through relationship TikTok or go on relationship Reddit forums, forgetting that this is a bad replacement for something that did exist before.

And I think...