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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