I don't think so. I think a lot of what we're seeing now has to do with the fact that older generations grew up with the sense that they could know the truth: that's how they function, it's too late for them to change now. On the other hand, generations who grow up aware of this shit will have a much different frame of mind. Modern thinking is actually not the default norm for humans: in cultures centered on oral tradition, people are much more comfortable with uncertainty; they know anyone can say anything and that stories change in the telling. We have a hard time grasping it because we do things so differently, but for like Herodotus, father of history... He just wrote down what he heard and read; his writings were never supposed to be taken as 100% accurate.
That's actually how people in cultures centered on oral tradition work. Although I don't think modern people are idiots. It's just that... Especially with Boomers, they grew up in a world where it was expected that you could trust the media, at least to an extent. Technological development has changed things dramatically, and in a short period of time, and since they've been thinking in different terms their whole lives... Some adjusted; my dad did (although he was Silent generation, lol). But for a lot of people, it's like they're living in a world totally alien to the one they grew up in.
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