What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Now that I am sixty I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from...
Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.