Should modern society be commenting and improving on Stoicism?

From Walden:

Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or even the Elizabethan men.  But what is that to the purpose?  A living dog is better than a dead lion.  Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?  Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

This is a pretty persuasive argument for us moderns to be intellectually bold.  I'd go further: we have the advantage of large amounts of science, history, and literature to help us along.  I think we have a good chance of advancing Stoic thought, ridding of it's ancient superstitions, putting it on a solid footing, and mass-communicating the message.

Of course, it could go wrong too.  With the modern emphasis on productivity, we might just corrupt Stoicism to be merely another one of the "habits of effective people", and reduce it to a life-hack.  That would be useful, but a great disservice to the main message of Stoicism, which is to make us morally better.