It would LOSE and enormous amount of history and culture I would HATE to live in a purely "logical world run by the state" Remember that is exactly what the Nazis and later some common its dictator ships tried to do. DIVERSITY is GOOD.
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.