It's not just propaganda it's also an effect of formal vocational training being focused on teaching people procedures for doing a task rather then forcing them

It's not just propaganda it's also an effect of formal vocational training being focused on teaching people procedures for doing a task rather then forcing them to learn by having to recover from failures the way most self taught people were, and lets not forget that doing the boom years practically everyone was self taught in an environment that haven't yet developed teachable procedures yet. I don't think that it's as much a generation thing that is it a consequence of IT having grown to the point where it is no longer it's own semi-anarchic subculture.