industry. What began as a “Romantic reaction” towards 
organic wholeness may or may not have hastened the 
discovery of electromagnetic waves. But certainly the 
electromagnetic discoveries have recreated the simultaneous 
“field” in all human affairs so that the human family now exists 
under conditions of a “global village.” We live in a single 
constricted space resonant with tribal drums. So that concern 
with the “primitive” today is as banal as nineteenth-century 
concern with “progress,” and as irrelevant to our problems.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the 
image of a global village.

*     It would be surprising, indeed, if Riesman’s description of 
tradition-directed people did not correspond to Carothers’ 
knowledge of African tribal societies. It would be equally