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.
(Julius Caesar, Brutus, II, i)