TOP/DOWN IDENTITY—POWER BUREAUCRACY (IN THE WEST)
| GROUND | FIGURES | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| SECRET GOVERNMENT | POPULAR GOVERNMENT (FRONT) | TECHNOLOGICAL GOVERNMENT | SYMPTOMS |
| GLOBAL VILLAGE | |||
| 1. Illuminati 30 A.D. | Rome | Spoken Word | Slaughter of Christians |
| 2. Venice 1500 | House of Hapsburg | Manuscript | Spanish Inquisition/Armada |
| 3. Fondo (Family Trust) 1840 | Britain | Printed Book | Napoleon/ Railway-War/ WWI/Decentralize Monarchies |
| 4. World (League of Nations) 1918 | America | Newspaper | Hitler/Stalin/Radio-War/WW2/ Decentralize Western Empires |
| GLOBAL THEATER | |||
| 5. Solar (U.N.) 1945 | National (Earth Stage) | Radio/Movies | Cold War/TV-War/WW3/Decentralize World Government |
| 6. Laser Beam 1960 | World (Solar Stage) | Television | Pollution/Decentralize Solar Government |
| 7. Mass Man 1977 | Solar (Universe Stage) | Computer | Star Wars/Decentralize Universal Government/Left Hemisphere vs Right Hemisphere |
| 8. Second Coming (Today) | Universal (Mythic Stage) | Satellite | Devil vs God/State vs Church/Armageddon |
how could Mcluhan be so wrong in placing Global Village epoch as the effect of electronic media and you call it from the A.D. start
Perhaps he's not wrong. Maybe I am. It is my idiosyncratic idea, not his.