Definitely. That seems like the newest, mostly Internet-driven iteration of the phenomenon. I thought about mentioning “the new atheism”, but it doesn’t seem to be driven so exclusively by one particular book, movie, or TV show, and my comment was pretty long already.

I think there is a certain personality type of fairly intelligent and perceptive person who goes through a phase in their life lasting maybe a decade, from about age 15 to age 25 or so, in which they realize that many people and many institutions of society are hypocritical and corrupt. But instead of continuing a…