finally heard last week: “The global village that 
McLuhan was predicting is finally coming to pass.” 
And I thought, boy are you behind the times. The 
global village was a way of describing the effect 
that radio had in the ’20s. Let me see, this is the 
’90s, that makes you about 70 years behind 
reality.


Q:  Some critics have levelled the charge that the 
sharpness of his aphorisms allowed him to escape 
any kind of critical scrutiny.

A:  Well, there is a type of mind that is not capable