We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.