During a family wedding this bright, educated, career driven group spouted the most arrogant nonsense and claimed it to be fact. The thing I found about them is they do NOT read original sources, or do in depth research as such. It's rather like they read only the best 3 opinions on a subject and presume to grasp the background and history implied by those reviews as if that were all there is to know.
This was not a difference of opinion as much as it was displacement of fact in reasoning. I recall listening to a young "christian" person spouting the truth as he knew it and his reasoning was similarly weak on facts and history, and grounded in the most awful philosophy of how the "facts" he was sure of meant the world must be. He was sincere in his beliefs but had no reality to tie them to. It seems to me that I hear some millennials spouting a similarly inside-out logic and insisting that the history I lived through happened in a very different way with strangely different outcomes.
One thing they appear reject is historical reference, as if anything old is by definition not quite accurate. They prefer what seems to be their own contemporary references and tend to reject information that seems to them dogma.
I recall an analysis of children who grew up in areas of the world that had been at war for a long time in which their perceptions of what was and why, and their expectations of how the future would be shaped, and by whom had no reference point outside of warfare. They especially distrusted outsider versions of history and their history in particular. They tended to recite the clan mythology as if it were fact.
I do not think that all millennials are that way or any specific particular way. Rather they have grown up in the age of FOX news and other reality challenging information streams. The effect of so much propaganda must certainly be confusing. The lack of awareness that they are succumbing to it makes me think of the Bundy gang as believers in a history that never happened who cannot see that there are other reference points to examine and other points of view which may also contain some truth. Ammon, Cliven and Ryan are off the deep end of historic and cultural denial. My nephew and his peers are anchored in contemporary life however much they may deny the contradictions I may observe.
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