Perhaps the biggest lesson of the last 80 years is that you must support what you love or it goes away. Unless you act, the things you love get captured and turned against your family.
The problem is that most people think ‘action’ is the same as gathering ‘knowledge’. This is understandable. We do, after all, live in the Information Age. It does feel like you’re ‘doing’ something when you learn about the world. It feels even better to ‘wake people up’.