The idea that the entire universe is just one big static 4D object, with your entire life embedded in it like a book, just doesn't sit well. The passage of time

The idea that the entire universe is just one big static 4D object, with your entire life embedded in it like a book, just doesn't sit well. The passage of time is the most directly apprehensible aspect of reality. If it's all laid out there in the bulk, why is there any particular sense of 'now'? Wouldn't all points in the bulk be on an equal footing? Any moment on any trajectory of anything would have to be as real as any other such moment, so why does consciousness present us with a particular 'now', that evolves with an apparent flow of time? It doesn't seem like anything within a frozen bulk universe could explain that, which leads to either the frozen bulk model is wrong, or that the flow of time regresses to some kind of outer, external reality. Not really satisfied with kicking the can. Blah. Time for more coffee.