The smartest people I know are mathematicians or physicists most of them couldn’t care less about any of the historical narratives you‘ve just mentioned.
Maths and physics is just “techne” stuff, it has been here for ~13 billion years, they’ll probably still “be” here for another 13 billion years after we’re gone, while on the other hand humans are a lot more interesting. Again, read your Plato or start getting to know more interesting people, not only “technicians”.