I’m glad for them, but I’m meeting a lot of people these days in the 21-30 range who are completely brainwashed. I’m talking layer upon layer of ignorance like an onion. A veritable tunicate of lies and half-truths.
They have grown up in a world where there are major ramifications for not toeing the social line and next to ZERO consequences for financial failings, such as taking out hundreds of thousands in school loans for graduate degrees in “Women’s Studies” or some other worthless area of study.
Many have years of ADD medication to keep them easy to control, and things like participation trophies to keep their self-esteem falsely inflated.
They simply cannot fathom anything that challenges any part of their world view. Anyone who tries to challenge them or even represents from afar something that might contradict their ‘knowledge base’ is belittled and ostracized.
No doubt, there are exceptions here and there, but what you’re talking about isn’t anywhere near the norm from what I’ve been seeing all over the country in the last few years.
Night of the Living Dead is real and it’s happening at a commencement ceremony near you.
“A veritable tunicate of lies and half-truths.”
tunicate:
noun Zoology
a marine invertebrate of a group that includes the sea squirts and salps. They have a rubbery or hard outer coat and two siphons to draw water into and out of the body.
adjective (usu. tunicated) Botany
(of a plant bulb, e.g., an onion) having concentric layers.
Just FYI, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary.