An underwhelming argument by the blogger. Introspection about motivation and emotion is also lacking in ancient texts; should we take that to imply that people

An underwhelming argument by the blogger. Introspection about motivation and emotion is also lacking in ancient texts; should we take that to imply that people didn't introspect, or have complex emotional lives? The role of literature has changed; if I look at a corpus of C++ and fail to see mentions of trauma, should I assume that no trauma occurred in the lives of the programmers who wrote and maintained the code? No, because one does not usually talk about such things in code. And, how easy would it be to miss evidence of psychological distress when it is described as visions and visitations of demons and angels? Read medieval hagiographic literature!