See, I remember when I first learnt that we laned on the moon. It was like woooah, cool.
but what's interesting is that this happens to all of us for many historical events. When was the first time you learned about Vietnam, about the Civil War, about Hitler, etc..
while as your parents and your parents' parents went through historical events in order, you are getting them sporadically. Because of this achronology, certain events surprise you and some don't.
Since you are first aware of electrical sockets, it is not novel when you learn about electricity being invented.
But when you learn that the Earth is not flat, that's still just as interesting as when our ancestors first agreed on this.
For me, it took me a day or two to sink in.
If the mean time for absorption is a day or two, but the distribution is skew, then there are bound to be a few outliers who, in their forties still don't believe it (Flat-Earth Society).
So the natural truths, the truths that a child can know and someone living ten thousand years can know are one thing, and then there is this re-selling of cultural progress that goes on.
I wouldn't be surprised if there is a certain threshold of explainability that certain concepts just won't be reduced down enough that they can't be reliably passed down from generation to generation.
For example evolution, people still don't believe it. Even if everybody now agreed upon it, there would be fresh generations that would have to be re-sold on the idea.
Which means that culture is a pulse, not a constant "hand-me-down," a pulse that depends on a rhythm.
Which, is the feeling I get from the consciousness literature that I've barely read: that thinking and mental capacities are wave or a running, repeating process. Its repetitive in the sense that its this constant dog-chasing tail system. "Am I aware?" "yes" "show me" "see?" "where?" ad infinitum
