I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U. S. Air Force in World War II. Only after the War did I see that we, like the Nazis, had committed atrocities. . . Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, my own bombing missions. And when I studied history after the War, I learned from reading on my own, not from my university classes, about the history of U. S. expansion and imperialism.
We are being spoilt in Aladdin's cave today, and each goal seemingly better than the last.