To be fair, every generations is "a generation of people who offload their critical thinking to authority or actors/actresses or pop culture."
This didn't start with the generation currently under 18 years of age. I mean not to put too fine a point on it, but the outlandish conspiracy theories everyone is concerned about came from Boomers, Millennials, X'ers and older GenZ'ers. Frankly, the evidence points to all of us having questionable critical thinking skills.
My suspicion is that not only those under 18, but those over 18 as well could use a bit of a refresher on symbolic logic. Also a refresher on assessing the verifiability and relative value of facts.
This didn't start with the generation currently under 18 years of age. I mean not to put too fine a point on it, but the outlandish conspiracy theories everyone is concerned about came from Boomers, Millennials, X'ers and older GenZ'ers. Frankly, the evidence points to all of us having questionable critical thinking skills.
My suspicion is that not only those under 18, but those over 18 as well could use a bit of a refresher on symbolic logic. Also a refresher on assessing the verifiability and relative value of facts.