Konstantin Kisin

We're infantilized, but we're also forced to grow up very fast.

And so you have adult expectations on young people at the same time as they're being infantilized.

So you have girls worrying about wrinkles before they're through puberty.

Literally.

Then you have...

Girls thinking their normal emotions are serious disorders and diagnosis, and they can tell you all about these disorders at a very young age.

Then you have girls expected to have fully formed political opinions that they can post online and represent and defend before they've even left home.

So you have that conflict all the time.

You have like a hustle culture online, but then you have a helicopter parent at home.

And then you have these really weird contradictions where adults' TV shows will become infantilized, but kids' TV shows will become sexualized.

And so you have...

a really confusing time for young people where they're being treated like adults in some sense, but then they're going through this extended adolescence at the same time.

So I think what happens is they have the adult pressure, but with none of the life experience or resilience to actually process and handle it.

Yeah, I think it's, again, we see each other as objects.

I find it bizarre that people think you can grow up, you can have your puberty on social media, and then you'll just become a fully formed, polite, functioning adult who has great relationships, even though you've spent your whole puberty consuming other people's lives like content, swiping through people like objects, disposing of people.

you know, treating people badly, blocking them, moving on, ghosting people.

I think if you do that for a decade and then you try to be someone who is respectful of other people, sees them as fully human, sees them in full context, that's a lot to ask of younger generations.

And I think it with relationships as well.

You have conservatives saying, you know, why don't young people want to settle down and, you know, have children and be in relationships?

And it's like...