Yeah, I found that kind of hilarious. Doesn't this blog post falls into a recency bias that's common with lots of things? The notion that we're in an especially chaotic world must be pretty silly for any generation that grew up under constant threat of disease, war, starvation, etc.
It talks about "fake news" needing to be fought, but then advocates against factual knowledge to do so. The way you know something is fake is by having a well of knowledge to draw from. It's not just rote memorization, it's putting the pieces together, which you can't do if you just rely on Google for everything.