I think there has to be a component of “jadedness” in this attitude, for lack of a better term. It feels as though there are so many problems in the world (income inequality, climate change, covid, homelessness, political polarization, and now the very real possibility of a nuclear war). The world doesn’t feel like a place we can save anymore, which I think can be a driver of the “bring it on” attitude you mention, not unlike the Monty python scene with the defeated knight…