I'm 32 btw, and I don't consider myself "old" like millennials often exaggerate....32 is still young, but time creeps along for all people and there is one thing that when I see it, it makes me have sort of an odd dread feeling.
People will post memes of like "this show is now X amount of years old...feel old yet?"
And that stuff never does. But the one thing that makes me go "that can't be right....that must be a glitch...it can't be that old" is those rare times I come across a Youtube video that was uploaded near the beginning, like a video from 2007 or something and the video will say "uploaded 15 years ago, or 16 years ago"
That one hits me in the gut every time. I remember in middle school Youtube being a new thing and it doesn't feel like the type of thing that is half my lifetime ago..It feels such a modern, part of this crap society that when I stumble across videos that were 16 years ago....I don't know...it gives me a similar feeling like when you watch a black mirror episode...there's something dystopian feeling about it.
(Me, remembering the fall of the Soviet Union.)
My take is that if the group at large keeps making the same stupid mistakes over and over again in rapid succession, time itself isn't experienced properly or rather in a narrativizable-enough manner to relate to sensibly.
When everyone goes through the 'Groundhog Day' effect at the same time, no one in the group can adequately make reference to time progressing in a logical, sequential order and years may pass nearly completely unnoticed.
For instance, if I took a movie and kept repeating a certain section of it 50 times in a row, and you know that it should progress a little bit in some meaningful way, you'd begin to notice less and less each time it reoccured unless you're really locked in. Even to describe it, you probably wouldn't relay the scene back to me using the same description each time, you'd just say, 'and the scene repeated 50 times' and no new information would be necessary (or possible). Even if you were locked in, if there were no changes to the scene each time, what could you possibly tell me about the repeated scene without repeating yourself?
I would mentally check out from the description of the scene just as I would to the scene itself.
Very interesting take