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Yep, that's definitely part of it.

Two posts come to mind. One is your recent one on Seneca: "The past is mutable. The older I get, the longer my memory, the more uncertain the past becomes, and the more I question it. [...] The truth of the past is that the world ends every day" (https://mstdn.social/@tinydoctor/110956150854337722). The other from Olivia Dresher: "If you remember a fact, is it still a fact? Or does it become a memory?" (https://twitter.com/OliviaDresher/status/1694795636724617548)

Like with changes in nature, we can detect sudden changes in societes, but we cannot grasp their longterm-ness. We are, in a sense, and as a species, too fast-living (and fast-perishing) to understand changes of certain scale and reach. Is that something soothing or terrifying, I ask myself.