I agree with you, but it's also hard to blame them for feeling this way. They had to live through COVID and the deranged Trump years when almost everything the mainstream media said was a lie, and it's becoming more and more obvious that the adults and supposed "experts" can't be trusted. If all the successful people, the people they're told they should strive to be like, are all inauthentic, then why would they not see the world through such jaded eyes?