“The power of storytelling is irrefutable,” he said. “I genuinely believe we have spent way too much money on war and machines of war, and we have left our children behind, and that is not OK.”
What does the first sentence have to do with the second?
And BTW, history is composed of wars, why they happened, and how they affect us to this day.
Maybe cracking open a book will reveal to LeVar just WHY we have to spend money on war and war machines.
Who is "we"? Who is stopping kids from reading? Plenty of books out there, plenty of libraries and used book stores. Stop blaming "The Man" for all the problems in the world, and maybe you can make some progress.