Thoughts
There's a John Green quote at the beginning of Crash Course.
And he has the incredibly challenging prospect of convincing people, but
particularly highschoolers, that world history is worth studying.
=> https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/495430
I've said before that the amount of focus that our culture places on the president of the US is unhealthy. But I want to avoid advocating for the type of anti-intellectualism that leads to you saying that learning world history is not relevant. And so I have to be careful to avoid arguments like, 'it doesn't effect my day to day life' or 'other people will care about it' (because other people will care about it until they don't, and it won't effect my day-to-day life until it does).
And I don't think it's about nuance. There's a bit in Fahrenheit 451 where they discuss political candidates based purely off of appearance and the conversation is not nuanced but the conversation doesn't need to be more nuanced.
I think a lot of it is being able to judge things based off of a larger context, and not just what's happening right now.