This is a thoughtful, well written and, in my view, perceptive and realistic appraisal of where humanity has arrived right now.

I find only one element of the article to be questionable:

"politics are a terrible replacement for religion." ..."While spirituality, philosophy, and religion were created in the Neolithic Revolution, they’re desperately needed in our current age of permanent revolution. We’re way beyond the clay tablets, but the meaning they purvey is still necessary."

The value of and need for philosophy, is something with which I certainly agree. Indeed, I find it appalling that philosophy has become increasingly absent in university offerings, whilst 'business' and/or 'vocational' courses have grown and often even replaced it.

Spirituality, I see as an extremely vague concept and very personal notion. I consider its use to be vague and relatively indefinable, perhaps because it is not something we can explain.

Religion, however, has been and certainly is 'political'. Even today, it remains about control, conditioning, the justification of hierarchy and the creation of immutable code of behaviour, (laws, if you will), that are justified not by reason, logic or evidence but by claims that they comprise the 'word' of some divine deity.

In fact, that 'word' is simply a human account of a human construct, perhaps beginning as an understandable way to explain existence but always being fraudulent and dependent on competitive charisma, just as is the government of the modern 'state'.

Indeed, if there is one thing we do not need it is for religion to continue or to grow. Religion has been and continues to be the major cause of human division, conflict and war. As Dylan so intuitively expressed it, every nation has God on their side. However, it always, their god.

No, the suggestion that "politics are a terrible replacement for religion" is nonsense for, in essence, they are one and the same and create similar divisions, prejudices, conflicts, inhumanity, inequity and inequality.