This is also why boomers are the way they are. They grew up before the internet and got their state programming all from the tv. So their opinions were already all fully formed before they ever discovered social media. Again it’s like the fourth turning stated, each generation is the way they are based on how old they were when they went thru each event. A millennial that was still forming their opinions could get online and have an open mind and change their opinion, where as a boomer would approach that same alternative opinion as a conspiracy theory and immediately scoff at it and never even consider changing their deeply rooted, long held core beliefs the state gave them thru the tv