Flipping the bozo bit means you know someone is reliably wrong. The person has been permanently switched off in your mind as being intelligent Apparently the term was coined by Jim McCarthy in his book "Dynamics of Software Development.
From memory, this guy sucked sense so hard that it was very difficult to turn the bozo bit on. If he spoke to you and you very firmly held the Bozo bit on then the effects were only temporary. Similarly but not quite as dangerous I once had a teacher who untaught me something.
After the class on vectors (revision for me), I realised I could no longer add vectors.
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.