When education is purposely dumbed down and controlled news media makes entertainment and fashion front page news - We have a problem! Everything is a sound bite. Talk show hosts rule public opinion. It's madness. The collective hive mentality.
Yes very much. It manifests practically as mashups of buzzwords and irrational presumptions (wherein that whole 'virtue-signaling' phenomena is, as well).
As for education, yeah it is very bubblewrapped, sugarfied, insanity in almost every way. Aside from the very fact the education doesn't even serve a role of catering towards even gaining employment itself (which is far worse for 'millennials' nowadays). That's a topic on it's own though. But the over-politicized nature of a lot of the gradually forced changes in education itself is downright immoral IMHO.
What should happening with much of it is that kids should be allowed to grow up as kids, when they reach their teens they should be learning the trivium and engaging in debates around these kind of issues in their colleges, intellectually, instead of having ideas ideologically forced onto them. The left and right have their own role around certain things, but propagation of ideas (often ones that are very sensitive often too) should not being done through '
beating into submission' in the case of what does happen to clearly be the left when it comes to mainstream education/academia et al.
It's clearly doing nobody any favors, that's for sure, and I know that people who aren't too far-leaning on either side see major issues in many areas with a lot of this.