Dave Rubin dropped a direct-message clip this week of Scott Galloway laying out hard truths that leftist pundits would rather ignore, and for once the Real Time with Bill Maher crowd went quiet. What played out on that panel was not theater — it was a facts-backed indictment of a generation of young men being hollowed out by modern culture and technology.
Galloway didn’t mince words: men account for the vast majority of suicides, are vastly overrepresented among the homeless and addicted, and are incarcerated at dramatically higher rates. Those aren’t woke talking points; they are grim statistics that demand a response from anyone who claims to care about the country’s future.
He then spelled out the social rot in concrete numbers — roughly a third of men under 25 still living at home, one in five still at 30, while 45 percent of young men 18 to 24 have never even asked a woman out in person and 63 percent under 30 aren’t actively pursuing relationships. These figures should terrify parents and policymakers who care more about ideology than outcomes.
Galloway pointed the finger squarely at Big Tech’s dopamine economy — algorithms, endless scrolling, gaming and synthetic porn — all engineered to sequester young men into a private life of clicks instead of courage. He warned that we are building an economy and culture that rewards asocial, asexual behavior, and that truth is uncomfortable for the coastal elites who profit from it.
Let’s be blunt: the cultural left has treated masculinity as a problem to be managed instead of a human reality to be cultivated, and our education and family policies have been complicit. While progressives lecture about feelings and victimhood, hardworking Americans are watching whole swaths of young men opt out of adulthood because the path to respect and responsibility has been obscured.
Dave Rubin did the public a service by amplifying the clip — conservatives must stop ceding moral clarity to the broadcast elites and start demanding real solutions. We should celebrate anyone who breaks the media’s gentle consensus and names the enemy: tech addiction, nihilistic campus culture, and bureaucracies that reward dependency over work.
Galloway even called for a “code” to reclaim masculinity — a return to mentoring, institutions like church or military that teach sacrifice, and a renewed emphasis on earning the right to provide and protect. That prescription should be embraced by conservatives who understand that civilization requires men willing to shoulder responsibility, not excuses.
This is not a cultural parlor game. If we tolerate a future where millions of young men drift from screens to sorrow, the security of families, communities, and the nation itself will suffer. It’s time for patriots to push policies and social structures that restore purpose to men’s lives: apprenticeship, faith-based programs, paternal responsibility, and a fierce pushback against Big Tech’s incentive to infantilize a generation.
