Profit made easy.

That’s the story they never say aloud.

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One in nine American boys has ADHD —
but millions more are medicated for it
before they’ve ever climbed a tree,
skinned a knee,
or learned what their bodies are trying to say.

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Amphetamines don’t heal boys.

They restrain them.

They inhibit the primal temperament designed for learning —
movement, risk, play, sweat, wonder.

But that was inconvenient.

And inconvenience is unprofitable.

So, we drug the ones we cannot control.

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Mass shootings now occur more often than the sunrise itself.

Forty-two percent of Gen Z labeled.

Half of them medicated
before they’ve ever tasted real grief.

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Over 20% of Gen Z is having an identity crisis.

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And it's not about blame, ideas or politics.

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It's simple disembodiment.

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Severe disembodiment.

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Screens handcuffed to their wrists designed to steal their attention,

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Unlimited information

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Unyielding stimulation.

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And endless rabbit holes to get lost in.

And endless talking heads to infect them.

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They are desperate to put their Fire into something real,

Something that bestows purpose, direction and connection.

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And what have we given them?

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Adults are as uncertain and unprepared to lead as ever,

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Forty-three percent of adults are medicated for mental illness.

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Nearly 20% of households with children are fatherless.

 

Ninety percent of homicides —
committed by men.

Thirty-seven percent of women murdered —
killed by someone who once said, “I love you.”

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You see statistics.

I see grief.

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All of it.

Simple grief.

Misplaced and neglected grief.

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A angry, sad, caged Beast.

 A culture too proud to admit
it started a war against its own sons.

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When you exile the Beast,

you force the Fire underground.

And buried Fire always becomes catastrophe.

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Our Ancestors knew this.

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This was why EVERY TRIBE,

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gave a boy's Fire the recognition and trials that it demands.

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Countless variations, 

some so intense we can't comprehend,

others so simple we can't comprehend.

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Underneath them all 

the same truth,

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Boys do not become men by accident.

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It's not luck.

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Manhood is not given.

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It is earned.

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It demands honesty, acceptance and effort.

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Confrontation with the forces that shape a life.

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The forces that move us will move us,

whether we choose to acknowledge them or not.

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We must build the spaces to for the Fire and the Beast.

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There is no alternative.

We are not machines.

We are not brains.

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We are endless questions, doubts and fears that must be faced.

And the evidence is undeniable, we can't do it alone.

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