Why this word is great
RECENTISM — [Noun] A cognitive bias that overemphasizes the recent past, interpreting all history through the distorting lens of contemporary sensibilities. From recent (from Latin recēns, recentis, meaning "fresh, new, recent") + the suffix -ism (denoting a distinctive practice, system, or philosophy). Unlike anachronism, which misplaces an object in time, or chronocentrism, which proclaims one's own era supreme, recentism is a subtler myopia, a perceptual foreshortening that collapses the long arc of cause and consequence into the foreground. It is the historian judging a medieval king by the ethics of a tweet, the pundit declaring every election the most pivotal in centuries, and the cooling coffee in your hand feeling more real than the thousand cups that preceded it—a quiet tyranny of the present, forever shrinking the past into a prologue of the now.