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threat to all who lack it. On the other hand, when everybody
has the same technological aids, there begins the competitive
fury of the homogenized and the egalitarian pattern against
which the strategy of social class and caste has often been
used in the past. For caste and class are techniques of social
slow-down that tend to create the stasis of tribal societies.
Today we appear to be poised between two ages—one of
detribalization and one of retribalization.
Between the acting of a dreadful thing,
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a Phantasma, or a hideous Dream:
The genius and the mortal instruments
Are then in council; and the state of man,
Like to a little Kingdom, suffers then
The nature of an insurrection.