The squid wrapped its slithy tentacles around its prey.

Drinking-and-driving violates the law.

This quest for a meaningful identity results in the alteration, because the discursive disorder created by unification allows for a connection between normalism and positive national identity, where the concept nation becomes reinscribed with premodern values.

For an Amy or a Gaga that’s all fine – there’s a whiff of cordite there – but for someone who makes The Jonas Brothers look like Megadeth, it’s just dreadfully untweetable.