Summary, Conclusions, and Outlook

The final chapter summarizes the entire presentation beginning with the basic problem of political gridlock, tracing its sources to ways for unblocking it. The theme in part emphasizes respect from better understanding of history and commonalities. Even so, all current ideologies face a credibility crisis caused by massive migrations and the coding revolution. Reconciliation and collaboration require finding new philosophical terrain that embraces a multi-vision view of the future that tolerates wide differences in imagery and image filtering. Religious humanism has this capability because it is a broad, flexible framework for American and world culture. Together with innovative analytical and narrative tools drawn from the coding revolution itself, religious humanism can reinvigorate America’s core values and mythological images: Lady Liberty, Uncle Sam, Ground Zero, nation of nations, and city on the hill – all useful fictions can take on new tones and features. As Joseph Campbell said, unity is more likely when a nation has commonly accepted myths that embody a realistic and uplifting mission.