i would not go so far as that. these things are complicated yet not sufficient understanding has been spread across a great enough population. i find the theory of ethics very hard, after i took an intro course in ethics in college. for an idea to be widely accepted, especially a social one, takes decades and even centuries to sort out. in fact, you don't need to go into the social sciences to find an example. perhaps due to the AI winters, a very classic and powerful idea in the field of AI, support vector machine, took three to four decades to reach a common researcher's ear from its birth as this sorta footnote on a Russian research paper. now it's taught as a standard tool at an introductory level.