March 31 (UPI) -- In February 2022, millions of Europeans watched a democratic government resist a military invasion launched, in part, on the premise that its citizens lacked the will to fight. The premise was wrong. But it raised a question that goes beyond any single war: why do leaders, and the societies that follow them, so often misjudge reality so badly? And why does that failure keep recurring, across generations and continents? The answer lies partly in what several serious thinkers