Does it ever weird you out that history is just a collection

Interesting perspective.

It certainly is interesting how time seems to speed up as you live. It seems like technology just makes things faster and faster. The needs of people being met over time more quickly. I'm wondering where it ends. It doesn't seem sustainable.

More like a progression of instants, the smallest unit of time.

However, If you consider time as a dimension like in Physics, you can consider each instant to be a coordinate in which you are situated.
The flow of time does not really exist, it doesn't progress, but we are simple beings that travel through it like we travel through space as earth orbits in the physical dimensions. The whole history of things is a big static picture, determined since the beginning and with a unique end.

I'm currently wrestling with Barbra's Streisand's lyric from her hit "Woman in Love". It is "Life is a moment in space". What did she mean?

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That makes my head explode.

Wait until you realize it's a progression of seconds, young padawan :^)