Konstantin Kisin

But they directly say, you know, we will guide you through all of the exam stresses, you know, dealing with your developing body, all of these things that parents used to give you advice and direction for.

We're now telling a generation that they need professional help and intervention for these things.

And you can't help but think it's quite sinister when you look at the actual adverts for, say, BetterHelp, where they have this series of adverts where the dad will say something like, oh, maybe you should get out and have a walk in the sun.

And the daughter will just be looking at the camera like, what?

And it will come up.

That's unhelpful.

And they do it with friends as well.

Yeah, it's horrifically offensive.

And then they have ones with friends where there's a talk space ad where a girl and a young guy are walking and she's like, oh, do you want to talk about your crush or how your maths test went?

And he's like, I don't want to talk about it.

I don't want to talk about it.

And she's like, why don't you text your therapist instead?

It's an advert for their unlimited messaging therapy where you text a therapist.

And so there's this really sinister thing happening where you have companies offering guidance and direction, but also basically saying your friends and family are unhelpful because they're not professionals.

There's no way they could help you with relationships because they don't know.

And so we kind of...

always encourage young people to be less close to their family, you know, to set boundaries, not burden them with their problems, but then get closer and closer to professionals.

Yeah, I think this is why I try and talk with sympathy for my generation and younger, because I think

We can lose all context where, and as you said at the beginning with conservatives kind of saying, oh, you know, you need personal agency and stuff.

I think you have to remember what my generation has never known.