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Well, since you asked...

This is the Participation Trophy Generation. And before blaming it, think about who raised it, and who raised them...

- Before 1900 - agricultural generation, where fathers raised the boys in their business, and mothers raised girls at home

- 1900-1920 - Industrialization, where fathers went to factory jobs, and mothers raised boys and girls both at home

- 1920-1940 - Great Depression, WW1 - very tough times - the Greatest Generation

- 1940-1970 - Post-depression, post-war. This generation wanted to give their kids everything, which led to the Hippies, who were raised to believe they knew everything, and were more enlightened than their parents generation. This was largely fomented by the development of.... Antibiotics! More on that below...

- 1970-1990 - Participation Trophy Generation - who believe they are inherently special, and have all the answers for themselves and everyone else

IMHO, it started with the best intentions of the Greatest Generation. Because people are the same as they were for the past thousands of years, we have a natural tendency to focus on ourselves (it's called "Pride"). When you remove the concept that their is something greater than the individual (daresay "God"), the individual comes to decisions, judgements, and conclusions that are inherently and logically flawed. Which is where we are today. Collective though of Individuals (yes, think about that...) has decided:

- Your biological race and gender are what you want it to be (vs. what biology tells you),
- You can tell others where they need to be charitable,
- You can decide how people can use their personal property,
- You can decide when a life becomes a life, (vs. what science tells you),
- and on and on - the rules are entirely of your own perception, for you and everyone else.

Prior to 1950, if you slept with someone, shared needles, or whatever, you ran a significant risk of getting a disease. Aside from whatever religious reasons, society condemned this behavior because it let to all sorts of tragedy for the individual and their family, usually resulting in multiple ugly deaths, birth defects, etc. Antibiotics removed these guardrails. When AIDS emerged, that generation grew up thinking there was a pill to cure anything, and was horrified to discover it was only preventable, not curable. (Funding for a AIDS cure was 10x the funding for a breast cancer cure, leading to the development of AIDS mitigation drugs, which we have today). Now it's things like Super-Gonorrhea and Ebola.

So the problem with humanity is Pride - it all stems back to that, and has since we climbed out of the swamp. This generation isn't any different, just more enabled in their exercise of Pride - social media, money, time, etc.

And antibiotics...