"The disappearance of power in the outlines of state and society and its apparent replacement with token symbolic structures, iconic leadership and a necessary vocabulary to render the whole theatre of governance seem real, that is, ideology, marked the devolutionary unravelling we have examined from Sulla to the Three Emperors.In the same manner this classical deconstruction of state power can be recognised once it has been granted that the contemporary stage is not what it pretends. Once the modern political discourse is set aside on the acknowledgement of modern capitalism as psychosis rather than system based on logic, and once the self-explanatory (ideological) version of today's crisis is set aside, it becomes possible to identify in the modern narrative a disturbing relevance and indeed similarity to the classical contortions of the primal state crises of ancient Rome."