Q:  Something that intrigues me about McLuhan is 
his literary and even religious influences and how 
he shaped those influences into a career espousing 
modern technology. How do you think those kinds 
of ancient influences were brought out in his 
modern theories?

A:  I think if you scratch McLuhan’s version of an 
ideal global village very hard you will come back to 
the medieval papacy, in a sense, where there was a 
at least in McLuhan’s mind perhaps, a concept of a 
global village maybe not connected with 
technology but connected through faith and 
through institutional response, i.e. the Church. I