We are all citizens of history.
To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.
Reading to small children is a specialty.
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
As between mileage and experience choose experience.