Smart living organisms feel existential loneliness and angst. This is why evolution has this natural cap limit on intelligence. Creatures can't get much smarter than we are, or they'd go insane, like half of humanity already is, today.
The more complex and sophisticated something is, the more can go wrong with it.
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.