Scott Galloway discusses the challenges facing young men (Part 3)

And its decline presents a threat to the Commonwealth and our prosperity. Our young men are failing and we are failing them. Boys start school less prepared than girls, and they're less likely to graduate from high school and attend or graduate from college. One in seven men reports having no friends and three of every four deaths of despair in America, suicides and drug overdoses are men. I've written about this at length and about how it relates to declining birth rates on the no Mercy, no Malice blog. Alienation and disaffection drive despair and violence. By age 27, high school dropouts are four times more likely to be arrested, fired by their employer on government aid, or addicted to drugs than their peers who graduated. We face declining household formation, reduced birth rates and slowing economic growth just as baby boomers enter decades of non productive retirement. The lack of an open dialogue about these issues has created a void filled by voices espousing thinly veiled misogyny, demonization of vulnerable groups, and a vision for masculinity that wants to take non whites and women Back to the 50s and old Spain, respectively. The good news is the dialogue has become much more productive. Recently there's a growing recognition of the size and severity of the challenges facing young men and we can now turn our focus to solutions. In 1945, the US economy was the arsenal of democracy, a coast to coast assembly line of tanks, ships and ammunition. And of all the things that American independence means to you and to me and to ours. Never before, since Jamestown and Plymouth Rock, has our American civilization been in such danger as now. 40% of the nation's GDP went toward the war effort. Today we spend 3% of our GDP on the military. But at the end of World War II, that economy lost its sole customer and in short order we had.