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...but we, in our own societies, have embraced the opposite position repeatedly. Or...more accurately, have tried to embrace love while at the same time actually embracing tyranny. It's happening in the U.S. as we speak - we are constantly lectured at by both political parties as to the importance of caring for the less fortunate or the environment or the Constitution or the churches or those with dangerous jobs or the sick and dying or the suicidal or (etc) (and we all agree it's important)...but this motivation is used, all too often, as a pretext for limiting freedom by force of government regulation and government spending/taxing.
It seems to be the eternal nature of man to desire the higher truths you have eloquently described here while acting, as a society, for only selfish, surface desires like security and wealth. I don't think that aspect of humanity is going to vanish...our history, thus far, seems cyclical at all scales. Powerful families rise on good intentions, to the point where they detach from the concerns of lesser men, and fall in disgrace. Cities come together, strive, build greatness, and then collapse under their own weight. Companies do great services for the world by making great products or offering great services...then they get too big and too stagnant and collapse. Whole societies rise to the top, become decadent and fat, and topple. That is in our nature. I see no reason to believe a billion years from now that, should there still be humans, they don't still suffer from the same disease.