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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