Doing the mental work to learn about something or someone will increase your affinity to it regardless of it’s merits or your past beliefs. Especially as beautiful craftsmanship is everywhere it’s just up to us to appreciate it.
Any established beliefs or dogmas are more of a harm to progress than radical and subtractive beliefs because progress can only happen through change good or bad. Stagnation will always lead to death. Push the boundaries local maximum are a bigger threat than failure.
The answer to questions of abundance isn't scarcity its always more abundance. We live in an infinite and constantly growing universe; there is no reason human's shouldn't be immortal interplanetary beings in the next century. Knowledge is infinite and all powerful.