@steven stoft -

I completely agree with your point.

Perhaps it is quite normal for young people in particular to be ignorant of their own history but it seems particularly pronounced in the current moment.

Most people alive today have never lived in a ‘terrible’ age compared to even the relatively recent past. I hear similar hyperbolic sentiments expressed in the UK (where I live) fairly often. Nearly anyone born here since 1945 is prodigiously lucky compared to most other people living in most other places at most other times.