The reason it isn't hard to say that (about war and power) is, in large part, because we are preceded by people like Madison. It is, I have found, very difficu

The reason it isn't hard to say that (about war and power) is, in large part, because we are preceded by people like Madison. It is, I have found, very difficult for people to accurately assess what it would be like to not know something they already know. Steven Pinker calls this the Curse of Knowledge.