How the Devil Would Destroy a Generation—and Why We’re Already Halfway There

 

I have been toying with the AI tools recently and asked GPT a question – “If you were the devil, how would you destroy the young minds of the next generations?
Three seconds later, it already sent me a full plan:

 

 

“If I were the devil, and I wanted to destroy the next generation—not with bombs, not with bullets—but by rotting them from the inside out, I wouldn’t need to lift a finger. I’d just whisper lies dressed up as truths and let society carry out the destruction.

 

I’d target the youth. The ones who still have fire in their eyes and untapped potential in their bones. I’d start early—before their values are set before they know who they are.

 

And here’s how I’d do it:

Undermine Their Identity Early
Convince children that their worth is based on external validation—likes, views, followers—not character, effort, or contribution. Blur their identity until they no longer know what they stand for.

 

Turn Education Into Indoctrination
Replace critical thinking with ideological obedience. Make them feel punished for asking hard questions. Celebrate conformity, not curiosity. Redefine Freedom as Instant Gratification. Make discipline and delayed reward seem like oppression. Convince them that true freedom is doing what you want, when you want, without consequence.

 

Destroy Role Models
Mock parents, mentors, and teachers. Elevate influencers who offer no values, only vanity. Make virtue look boring, and self-promotion look heroic.

Break the Family Unit
Sow distrust between generations. Paint tradition as regressive. Convince them that family is optional, not foundational.

Replace Real Connection with Virtual Illusion
Let them scroll endlessly. Give them followers instead of friends. Replace eye contact with emojis and honest words with curated captions.

Twist the Meaning of Strength
Promote aggression without restraint and softness without boundaries. Make them believe that yelling is power and kindness is weakness.

Make Everything About the Self
Encourage narcissism and disguise it as empowerment. Teach them to focus inward so deeply that they forget the world around them needs them, too.

 

Eliminate Wonder, Faith, and Purpose
Make them feel life is random, meaningless, and disconnected. Remove all sense of spiritual grounding and replace it with consumerism.

Teach Them They’re Always Victims
Let them believe nothing is their fault and that every shortcoming is due to someone else. Keep them powerless by convincing them they never had power in the first place. And then I’d just sit back and let the confusion, apathy, and emotional fragility do the rest.

 

When I finished reading it, I sat in silence for a few minutes, staring at the screen—deeply concerned that this plan wasn’t just theoretical. It’s already in motion. This isn’t some twisted fantasy. It’s already happening. Right here, right now.

Gen Z is the most digitally connected generation in history—and also the most emotionally isolated. They’re praised for “awareness” but drowning in anxiety. They’re educated, but many are unable to handle basic life skills. They’re flooded with content but starving for meaning.

 

They are not the problem. They are the product—of our decisions, our fears, our systems. We raised them to avoid discomfort at all costs. We told them their feelings were facts. We gave them safe spaces but not enough strength to face the world outside of them.

 

Now, we wonder why they’re overwhelmed by reality.

We have created soft minds in a world that demands strength. We’ve blurred the lines between support and overprotection, between empathy and enablement.

 

And the world isn’t getting safer. The solution is not to soften it further. The solution is to prepare young people to face life with clarity, discipline, courage, and connection.

 

 

So What Do We Do Now?

We must bring back meaning. Challenge. Discipline. Depth. And above all—human connection.

 

And here’s what I believe we need to do—urgently and deliberately—to protect the next generation from a system designed to confuse, weaken, and isolate them.

 

1. Teach Critical Thinking Based on Truth, Science, and History

We must train young minds to ask questions—not just repeat answers. In a world flooded with narratives, opinions, and half-truths, pausing, thinking, and analyzing is a form of self-defense. Critical thinking doesn’t mean doubting everything—it means seeking the right questions and being open to being wrong in pursuit of something right.

 

We need to teach kids how to think, not just what to think. That includes understanding bias—including their own—and resisting the temptation to blindly follow trends, ideologies, or emotional reactions. It also means knowing how to distinguish between truth and propaganda, science and pseudoscience, fact and emotionally charged fiction.

 

 

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Read more on how we teach this mindset on the mat:
Are You a Backseat Driver? Or Are You Plagued By One?

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2. Learn From History—So We Don’t Repeat It

 

There’s a reason history is being erased or rewritten in many corners of the world—it’s dangerous to those who benefit from confusion. But history is our compass. It teaches us how societies fall and rise, how tyrannies are born, and how freedom is lost—slowly, then all at once.

 

We must teach our children not just where they come from but what those before them endured, resisted, and built. We must raise their awareness of the sacrifices that made their life possible so they don’t become entitled, passive bystanders in their own stories.

 

 

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If you haven’t already, read:
October 7th: Never Again, Only If We Stand Strong Forever

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3. Return to Physical Activity

We need to get out of our heads and back into our bodies. Physical training builds resilience. It teaches pain tolerance, focus, humility, and the kind of grit you can’t fake. It’s not about fitness. It’s about the mind-body connection—the foundation of confidence and real self-trust.

 

Whether it’s Krav Maga, martial arts, wrestling, or even a daily commitment to structured physical effort—training transforms people. The body becomes a vessel of strength, not anxiety. The movement teaches us how to carry ourselves in the world.

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For more on how we train this:
You Think You’re Safe Because You’re Careful? Think Again.

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4. Practice Self-Love That Isn’t Narcissism

 

Self-love doesn’t mean treating yourself to comfort or pleasure. It means showing up for yourself when it’s hard. It’s telling yourself, “I deserve to be strong. I deserve to be disciplined. I deserve to fight for my future.”

It’s about investing in your growth, not just pampering your present. It’s about facing discomfort, pain, and failure with the attitude of a student and the heart of a fighter.

 

5. Human Connection Over Internet Validation

We are wired to connect face-to-face. The screen can never replace that. Social media gives the illusion of being seen but not the feeling of being known. And that’s what people, especially children, are starving for.

Kids need mentors, not followers. Real friends, not digital fans. They need to know how to read a face, hold a pause, and sit in a difficult conversation. They need to feel safe being human, not edited into perfection.

We must teach them that likes aren’t love, that going viral doesn’t mean you’re valuable, and that silence can be sacred.

6. Face Reality—And Train for It

The world is not a “trigger-free zone.” It never was. It’s not supposed to be. Our job as parents and educators isn’t to bubble-wrap life—it’s to prepare kids for it. Just like we want our children to develop a strong immune system to survive viruses and disease, we must help them develop a moral and emotional immune system to withstand the mental viruses of fear, victimhood, and dangerous ideologies.

 

This is natural selection in the modern world—not of biology, but of mindset. Weak thinking doesn’t survive hardship. Entitlement collapses under pressure. Emotional fragility can’t hold the weight of real responsibility.
Our responsibility is to ensure our children are mentally and spiritually resilient, not just safe and entertained.

 

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I explored this concept more here:
What Do You Train For When the Plan Fails?

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This Isn’t a Call to Despair—It’s a Call to Action.

We can’t fix the world overnight. But we can raise children who won’t fall apart the moment life gets hard. We can train them to face failure, confrontation, and uncertainty with strength, humility, and purpose.
We can’t predict every storm—but we can raise kids who are the storm when needed. Calm, clear, grounded.

 

The future won’t be shaped by influencers or loud protestors. It’ll be shaped by the quiet warriors who build themselves with intention—every day.
The ones who rise early, train hard, think deeply, love fiercely, and lead by example.

 

Let’s raise those people, as they are our future leaders. Let’s be those people so we can start correcting the reality we live in now!

 

Do something amazing,

 

Tsahi Shemesh
Founder & CEO
Krav Maga Experts