People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.
Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.
War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.
Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.