How do you do with change? Just try to avoid it and you may be run over or left behind! We now travel from coast to coast in 5 hours, not 5 months in a horse drawn wagon, if you would arrive at all. We no longer die easily of simple diseases. A little device placed on the end of your finger will tell how much oxygen is in your blood. Another can tell if there is something wrong with your heartbeat. This is pretty easy to accept.
The movement of history is the constant movement of new against old. We know so much more than before; knowledge is not held in some monastery. What we believed long ago may not serve us well anymore. It was wise to find out about germs or that the sun doesn’t revolve around the earth. Still, we have not learned to see each other’s differences without fear closing us off. We wave our 
national banners with pride and menace. We still disagree and argue to the point of killing each other, sometimes in large numbers in war. Armies are taught that the enemy is less human than they are. Makes things easier.
Each one of us wants a life with security, laughter and the ease of mind that comes with those. Why is that so easily ignored when someone decides they want more than they need, at a cost to many others? Sorry, deep and almost rhetorical question.
Can we accept the basic idea that we are mostly the same, wanting security, peace and happiness? We wouldn’t want to do harm to others once we realize that they have the same dreams as us. That might even be better than repeating history. Real advancement beyond the barbaric past.
Learn something new, study another culture, go into a different part of town. Stretch and enjoy!