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[haele]

47. Started earlier than that - the Demonization of Liberal Arts education.

Most of them have only a cursory video game level view of history, very little philosophy or ethics, not to mention civics.
Mainstream Colleges and Universities were starting to decouple the idea of a classical education because the Monied conservatives in the WWI and Silent Generation did not want their Boomer kids to become Commies or Beatniks.
But since they had to come up with some reason to keep Proles in school, they pushed the idea that Liberal Arts (especially Philosophy) were for Losers and trying to get as many Boomers to focus on Finance (as MBAs) and STEM as the method for success.
True, there had been problematic issues within 19th century/early 20th century philosophy that couldn't deal what the rapid technological evolution was doing to society, but too many of the parents of the Boomers couldn't deal with that rapidity, and did whatever they could to keep their children from wanting to actually change society in such a way that would leave the old "traditions" behind.

Just my theory. But Boomers were the first generation to experience "teenage" as we now know it, and a lot of it was because their parents wanted to "enjoy their childhood" and protect them from the outside world far longer than generations prior.