analysis, so that one I think we can dismiss pretty 
easily.

The second one that is very interesting is the line 
of criticism which says McLuhan was simply a 
global millennial optimist. And this came in part 
from looking at some of his comments on the 
global village. Under electronic conditions, the 
world will resemble a global village. Well to be fair, 
McLuhan never said everybody would get along. 
Nor did he with his views of tribalism and ethnic 
revivals and identity politics such as race and 
women. Nor did he ever give the impression that 
what he was talking about was some fait accompli,