Marshall McLuhan 1977 Interview - Violence as a Quest for Identity

Marshall McLuhan Full Interview 1977 Violence as a Quest for Identity TV Ontario 1977 The Mike McManus Show Host: Mike McManus Transcript: [McManus]Way back in the early fifties you predicted that the world was becoming a global Village. [McLuhan]We are going back into the bicameral mind that is tribal, collective, without any individual consciousness. [McManus]But, it seems, Dr. McLuhan, that this tribal world is not friendly. [McLuhan]No, tribal people, one of their main kinds of sport is butchering each other. It is a full-time sport in tribal societies. [McManus]But, I had some idea as we got global and tribal we were going to try to - [McLuhan]The closer you get together, the more you like each other? There is no evidence of that in any situation that we have ever heard of. When people get close together, they get more and more savage and impatient with each other. [McManus]Why is it? Is it because of the nature of man? [McLuhan]His toleranc