It’s got to be something along that line in order for the snowflake phenomenon to be so widespread. I wonder if the seeds aren’t being planted earlier when they are kids. Maybe a combination of school and messages they are getting from some of the entertainment directed at them.
That could very well be, I found that the ‘kids’ and ‘teens’ shows on channels like Disney were very corrosive in that they nearly always played the kids as ‘cool’ and so-much-smarter than all of the adults on the show. The dad’s were nearly always ‘idiots’ and ‘dolts’ with the Moms and other adult figures being marginally smarter and cooler than the dada.