@wretchard:

In keeping with my previous comment and trying very hard to be properly on-topic, you wrote:

September 11 and the Russo-Georgian war proved that neither the concept of religion nor nation is wholly dead.

So what happens when immense masses of internet-connected but socially disconnected young [male] gamers look for connection? Adherence to romanticised nationhoods or religion-hoods, or freebooter pirate bands.

Hmmm, sounds like Islam’s first 100 years. Ooops, sorry, make that Islamo-fascism’s first hundred. As for the pure Islam we dare not neglect, heck, I don’t really know about that one. I know there are many Russian individuals who are neither siloviki nor skinnie-brain hooligans.

God help us if the siloviki figure out how to really recruit and control large numbers of Russe gamers, some kind of latter day Cossack Hordes on a par with the present day Chinese Hacker horde[s].

The hacker horde[s]:
“Wii iz in UR market State OODA loop, BEBE. All UR base R bilongz 2 uss’nz

Time to finish this very pleasant dry Saperavi red. It doesn’t come close to the glory of the Kindzmarauli [WOW!], but Georgian wine is here to stay in my [somewhat disconnected but no gamers here--he's in college] household.