Question: Benjamin Barber, writing in The Atlantic, saw two possible political futures, which he labeled the "forces of Jihad" and the "forces of McWorld": The first is a retribalization of large swaths of humankind by war and bloodshed culture is pitted against culture, people against people, tribe against tribe-a Jihad in the name of a hundred narrowly conceived faiths against every kind of interdependence. The second is being borne in on us by the onrush of economic and ecological forces that demand integration and uniformity and that mesmerize the world with fast music, fast computers, and fast food-with MTV, Macintosh, and McDonald's pressing nations into one commercially homogeneous global network: One McWorld tied together by technology, ecology, communications, and commerce.165
a. Does either of these scenarios make sense to you? Explain.
b. Which would you prefer? Explain.