Rules have always been broken. What is new is the pride in breaking them. Those who break the rules today no longer dispute them, they mock them, and effect is replacing fact as the currency of political communication. The closing keynote draws together what this day has shown about that shift and asks what follows for our profession and for democratic societies. The answer points to those who build community: in local networks, through politics that resolves conflicts instead of communicating them away, and in a pre-political space that balances interests before they escalate.