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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