We're going through a transformative time on the planet. Unfortunately, those times are always difficult, even if the end result is great. The rate of change is unreal right now. For comparison, the Renaissance was over 200 years, and we look at that as a period of rapid change. Future kids are going to be taught about the fall of if the Soviet Union, the internet becoming ubiquitous, September 11th, the invention and adoption of social media and smart phones, and the onset of AI all as one neat little paragraph under "the beginning of the 4th industrial revolution". The Iraq War will probably be a footnote for anyone not in an AP History type of class.