I think that this is an issue of parenting primarily. As a child, I was taught that I ought to obey my elders, not because they had the wisdom of experience, but because they would think poorly of me elsewise. Also, in my adolesence, I was often chided for spending far too much time indoors reading. Then the ultra-focused conglomeration of such learned behaviors in combination with teenage hormonal imbalances (read high school) amplifies said behaviors. This can of course have dramatically different results, but I would guess mostly to the production of second-handers. I have noticed that the more educated you are, the less this tendency seems to prevail and vice versa.

Was that a good start?

Idoni

Michael, I think is important to say something on how people
automitize their way of thinking.
Like, why a second hander thinks that is important what other think
and not what he thinks etc... that would be a very interesting subject to talk,no?
Ciao.