Do Western people lack sensibility?

Yes, we do. Rationalism is consuming the Western people's capacity of feeling, sensing, empathizing. Rationalism is sovereign principle in Western education since the hallelujah days of Communism.

If Communism has vanished as visible policy, Marxist social sciences dominate in all schools and universities, as a result of Western Permanent Cultural Revolution of 1968. The WPCR is a success for the believers but is a catastrophe for Western sensibility. A cultural revolution is an endless project based on theories which measure theoretically, intellectually your life from beginning to end, keeping religious feelings banned because not measurable by the intellectuals.

So, there was a hidden cooperation also after WWII between totalitarian Communism and ongoing, not less totalitarian, globalist Capitalism. We are living the hey-days of Capitalism made possible by a rationalist Marxist substructure governed by so-called Western intellectuals. The apparent contradiction between the -isms ... more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.