A Tennessee teacher just got pepper-sprayed by a student.
Why?
She took away a phone.
But that's not the real mindfuck.
It’s what happened next:
Parents started showing up with bruises.
Teachers getting attacked in classrooms.
And for the first time in 45 years, we saw a female juvenile school shooter.
Your ancestors survived ice ages, tracked prey for days, and built civilizations.
Their teenagers? Warriors and builders by 13.
Our teenagers? They're having hallucinations because we took away their TikTok.
The Raw Numbers That'll Make You Sick
Here's what 10,500 teens just told researchers (and fair warning, this is dark):
37% of 13-year-olds experience uncontrollable rage
20% are straight-up hallucinating
40% can't tell what's real anymore
42% of girls are battling suicidal thoughts
And here's the cosmic joke: The earlier they get phones, the worse it gets.
The Pattern Nobody Wants to See
Let me paint you a picture that'll haunt your dreams:
Your 10-year-old's brain is literally building its reality-testing software.
It's creating the neural hardware that tells them what's real and what isn't.
Then we hand them a device that:
Hijacks their reality-construction process
Floods their tribal programming with digital isolation
Keeps their fight-or-flight system permanently redlined
Remember that Tennessee teacher?
She didn't just face an angry kid. She faced a brain that literally couldn't process the difference between losing a phone and losing oxygen.
The Brutal Truth About Brain Development
Here's what addiction psychologist Dr. Nicholas Kardaras discovered at his tech recovery center in Austin:
These kids aren't just addicted…their brains are physically rewiring in ways that would make a neuroscientist cry.
Age 10 first phone (today's young teens):
37% become rage machines
20% lose grip on reality
40% can't process real life
Push that first phone to age 12? Numbers drop like a rock:
27% aggression
12% hallucination
30% reality detachment
Two years.
That's the difference between a functioning human and a digital psychosis case.
The Raw Truth Nobody's Ready For
You wouldn't hand a 10-year-old:
A bottle of vodka
Keys to your car
Access to a casino
But we're doing something potentially worse: We're breaking their reality-processing software before it's even finished installing.
Your ancestors survived plagues, wars, and ice ages.
Their secret?
They could tell what was real.
Our kids can't tell the difference between losing TikTok and losing a limb.
And that, you magnificent truth-seekers, is how you collapse a civilization - one dopamine-fried teenage brain at a time.