balkanization of the world . . . 

A:  I think he’d already started talking about them. 
The successionist movements are, all of them 
brought about by TV and computer screens. 
Because they raise up in the users, very deep tribal 
loyalties and tribal antipathies that have been 
below the surface, maybe for centuries. So you get 
the Irish suddenly being very confused about their 
identity and wanting to assert this and divest 
themselves of British identity and British trappings. 
And Quebec doing the same with Canada, and the 
Basque doing the same with the Spanish. And so on 
all through Europe. It’s very clear that the same