My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home that for them was the capital of the world.
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for...
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.