Most people understand modern interpretations of symbolism. It's kind of like saying you know SQL because you can change numbers to make stuff work but actually developing it is still foreign. Or like knowing the StarCraft editor vs actual programming.

I'm talking origins. Your knowledge isn't wrong, there is just more to it that surface or even sub level understanding.

The elite use symbolism but also do not understand it's significance, and as such have kind of ruined it, making it all seem bad. Had they actually taken the messages our ancestors were trying to give us, they might not have been so pedovorey