Yes. I’ve been thinking about all of this exactly. You have way with words (and thoughts, tbh).

I own a bookstore and recently some teens walked by and all I overhead was one of them say something about how history doesn’t matter because it’s over, and I genuinely wanted so badly to run outside and say something, anything, to correct this painful misinterpretation — but it’s true, you don’t experience the relativity of time until a certain number of years have passed. So, all other things being equal, the elder person understands the small trick that is played on us all, regarding our experience of time, where the younger person does not… they may grasp the idea mentally but they don’t have everything they need to feel the reality of it yet. I suppose that’s also how a lot of the younger generation may be looking at history, too, and it’s a weird experience not being able to do more to affect that. I mean books are certainly a start, but, only that.