Konstantin Kisin - This New Age of Victimhood is DESTROYING the YOUTH

Why are so many young people today more anxious, fragile, and directionless than any generation before them — despite living in the safest and richest societies in history? According to Konstantin Kisin, the answer is uncomfortable but unavoidable: we have built a culture that teaches young people to see themselves as victims first, and individuals second. In this clip, Kisin explains why victimhood doesn’t empower young people — it weakens them, strips them of agency, and quietly teaches them that their lives are controlled by forces they can’t influence. That belief, he argues, is psychologically corrosive and socially destructive. Subscribe to Heretics Clips for more fearless conversations: https://www.youtube.com/@hereticsclips/videos

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Kisin breaks down how the language of oppression has replaced the language of responsibility, how grievance has replaced ambition, and how this shift has reshaped how young people think about success, failure, and meaning. Instead of encouraging risk, effort, and self-belief, society increasingly teaches young people to interpret obstacles as proof the system is rigged against them — and to see personal responsibility as either naive or immoral.

Why does a mindset that claims to be compassionate end up producing more anxiety, depression, and helplessness? Why does framing life as a permanent power struggle drain young people of hope instead of giving them purpose? And why does constantly telling people they’re victims make them less capable of changing their circumstances, not more?

Konstantin argues that when people are taught they have no agency, they stop trying. When they’re taught the world is unfair beyond repair, they stop building. And when they’re taught that success is suspicious and failure is someone else’s fault, they lose the motivation to grow.

This isn’t about denying injustice exists. It’s about recognising that the stories we tell young people shape how they see themselves — and that a story built around grievance produces fragility, not strength.

If you’ve noticed that motivation, resilience, and optimism feel rarer than they used to — especially among the young — this clip explains why.

Watch until the end. The final point changes how you see the entire debate.

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