No. I'm implying that they had some stuff figured out and we waste a lot of time rediscovering the same basic impulses that underlie all human behavior. It's like... Newton didn't understand gravity better than we did today, but imagine if you throw out all knowledge from physics developed prior to 1950 and then tried to reconstruct it. Would you agree it's a waste of time? And yet, we've basically done that with humanities education. The great classics are seen as wastes and we've substituted them for vapid books without any important insight into human nature. Or worse, a very contemporary surface-level observation of human nature.