I think you are both drastically underestimating the stupidity and gullible suggestibility of youth.
These are people who belive that skintight pants and hoops through their earlobes are statements of their advanced psyche.
This clearly demonstrates that these idiots will believe anything.
I'm personally quite surprised that they 'make' it. Didnt Darwin say something about weeding these type out somewhere along the line? Shows what he knows...