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I don't understand how even a reasonably curious young person wouldn't learn those things on their own

It has got to be a generational thing. The movies they watch, the books they read are all soap operas about one thing or another. This is the snowflake generation - if any real disaster ever occurred they would be in a state of shock and out of commission. The future needs old people to keep the young alive.

But with all their exposure to the entire world through technology, don't they wonder about the things they don't know? Don't they realize the appalling gap between the superficial images on their iPads and the realities behind those images? Don't they wonder where they are and how they got there?

Or is it that they're so smug and complacent that they fail to realize they're only one link in a very long chain?

Even if you write their banality off to narcissism, don't they know that they can't really "change the world" if they don't know squat about it?