Tink I am not sure that what we are seeing is actually intellectual laziness; I am concerned the "inability to come to grips) might be just that, an authentic inability...
I don't know much about that kind of inability, not sure whether the ability can be taught, or cultivated through instruction. But a couple of weeks ago I was Googling Evergreen College and Bret Weinstein, just to see what is going on now, and where he is, what has happened to Weinstein.
And it was not good; Weinstein seems to think it is possible that we (the USA) might have to go through a time of living with this post-modern worldview, because the SJW (I am not sure what the W stands for but SJ is social justice)...anyway, he indicates these folks are now entering the mainstream, sitting on juries and in responsible public service positions.
Apparently they (the SJ's) are trying to get rid of science! Kninjanin mentioned that (the science) also...
So, Weinstein is suggesting we could see science disappear from the universities, then the university system could collapse under this weight of SJ...then and only then somehow reason and Enlightenment values re-enter...Weinstein has been traumatized, he might perceive them as more powerful than they actually are...but...?
Because of the strange happenings I am also seeing in my own life, again I hope you are correct but I am not sure we can count on being able to dismiss these nutsos as claptrap and intellectual laziness...
Respond if you wish, do you have concrete information to support your optimism? Has someone looked at the numbers, how many people still operating with some kind of rational touchstone?
Added later: I just saw Freeranger's post, below - I think I recall he was in Vietnam, which puts him in the same era as Rooster and me...do look at his post, see what you think?