It should be a read for everyone. Maybe even put into schools as Woodstock suggested. Potential gains to society outweigh the time taken away from other curriculum. World is shying away from these principles because it has become apparent that there is quicker and more expedient gain from doing so.
In the next cycle, the following generation will rediscover these principles and adhere to them for the next 50 years or so until the generation after them tears it apart. It is just time: ebbs and flows as natural as the ocean wave.