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Sands of time cover even the achievements proclaimed great by the rulers who thought their own fame eternal, like Ozymandia from the famous Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem. Preservation could be ordained but similarly lose its purpose unless met with connection with people’s life in the present, tying together experience of all demographic groups that built American culture. It is especially important in the situation when parental expectations from the education become the new field of political contest. Multidisciplinary approach allowed to look in the vein of humanistic tradition at such aspects of contemporary American culture as new museums representing diversity (National Museum of American Indian as one of them), works of art created to withstand erosion of time using a concept similar to oral tradition of yore, and the search for new myths capable to sustain human development despite of erosion of public trust (Hopepunk in science fiction). They all can be regarded as counter-Ozymandian measures for our civilization if it is destined to survive. Passing on the wider pool of images supporting a possibility of cooperation in building better a sustainable future can be considered a way of thinking observable in American art, literature, film, museums, libraries. If we consider Project 1619 by Nicole Hanna-Jones in that connection we might understand better its potential not only as an instrument in current racial polemics but as an element of building a sustainable safety net for human continuity. Similarly, removing an academic stamp of universal applicability from Hero’s Journey model can lead us to finding a way for humanity to continue even after the advent of Singularity.