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Events in one’s lifetime impact them more than the alignment of the stars
Yes, but those events and the relative importance of those events are highly variable.
Someone living in the 80s in a small town in Scotland is unlikely to have lived through the same 80s as someone running a FTSE company in New York at that time.
There's this idea, and I think it is particularly American, that the whole world lives to their narrative. The narrative of the rather privileged middle class.
For example when we talk about the 80s the narrative is big hair, cocaine, excess... But that's only true of a very small proportion of the world. I know plenty of folk that didn't see a cell phone until the early 2000s.