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I usually suffer the other way around, with older people saying very wrong stuff "they saw", but that are very factually wrong
They had it wrong their entire lives, never had it right, or they picked up the narrative somewhere along the way to suit their worldview.
That’s not going to stop happening. “Alternative Facts” is proof that some people never stop trying to block out the reality around them.
E: typo
It seems that if there's enough people that believe in something, that reality hitting can be delayed quite some time. Something like the Idiocracy Effect, if you will.
Yeah the thing is "living through" something doesn't really mean anything unless you were personally involved in it. Like I remember being in school on 9/11. I was a kid at the time, and everything I learned about it was from like CNN or similar. That doesn't make me an expert. There are definitely younger people who have studied history who will know more about it than me.