Absolutely. You see it in those “man in the street” i’views. Of course, those are selected. But you NEVER hear them say “I don’t know”....they know everything.
We all did this when we were rebellious teenagers. It’s natural, I suppose. But now it has evolved into the public humiliation and ridicule theater of Mao’s cultural revolution.
They cannot bear to exhibit the possibility that they are not “hip” to something. Their answers are immediate. You can tell there is no thought behind them, it’s a competition to produce the PC answer on the spot.
They will have a lot to unlearn. Or we will turn into some weird sort of communist-socialist state. Even odds at this point.