People often use "culture shock" to refer to dealing with new phenomena, but I really think that looking backwards can cause just as much of a culture shock. Watching Louis Armstrong have to do a musical number dressed in Hollywood jungle garb (faux leopard print); reading Robert E. Howard talking about the "twisted and corrupted" inhabitants of his Africa analogue in his Conan stories; even watching a 70s Blacksploitation film (or a satire of them; if you haven't watched "Black Dynamite," it's a fun send-up of the subgenre): all of these invoke a weird feeling of disconnection from my own culture sometimes. Proof of time passing and people changing.
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"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."