"In the future, tribalisms will be ever more elective, provisional, and nongeographical. They will be based around commodity loyalties, star worship, concept alliance, activity devotion. People will pass through several "nations" in a lifetime (the Ska Revival Nation, the Snowboarder Nation, the People's Republic of Christina Ricci, etcetera) or be citizens in many nations concurrently. Maybe one day my passport will read "raver".

(Simon Reynolds, author of "Generation Ecstacy", in Wired January 2000, p. 84.)