You have to know these things when you're a King, you know.
I don't think leaders these days get much good advice from their mothers, or anyone else. Your post points out one additional thing you didn't mention. These ideas are not new. They're as old as civilization. By now we should be figuring it out, but we aren't. Not a good reflection on the durability of human wisdom.
Yup. One of these days I might even convince you we are DEVOLVING, instead of "evolving".