If modernist naturalism were true there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference or political power and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
In both children and adults there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.