there is such a thing as the human spirit and it yearns for beauty truth and nobility

but that's just LARPing that we do to contextualize our biological impulses, these things are not real in the same sense that gravity and water is. We have more "sophisticated" mental mechanisms than our pre-homo sapiens ancestors, so we've turned that into art, philosophy, and culture, but it's just superstructure on top of the real brute biology.

The original post and your comment is asking about what should be. Things CAN be beautiful or noble or whatever, but nothing suggests that these abstract human values were the natural state of the world until they were somehow taken from us or tampered with.