Public metrics aren't enough - society must also care about them. Without that, there's no status attached and no embarrassment risked.

To get this going, you'd also need a way to keep society's standards on-track, or even a small amount of noise would lead to a positive feedback loop disrupting its conception of rationality.

Everyone has at least a little bit of rationality. Why not simply apply yourself to increasing it, and finding ways to make yourself implement its conclusions?

Just sit under the bodhi tree and decide not to move away until you're better at implementing.