Gutenberg Bible and Social Media

The thesis--the prevailing Means of Communication in a society is a factor in the determination of its structure and the relations therein--is strongly confirmed by the influence of Gutenberg's invention.  For, the general availability of the print Bible Democratizes, individuates, and privatizes religious practices that are previously pervasive, foreshadowing general societal developments over subsequent centuries.  So, applying the formulation to the World Wide Web, and to its perhaps most prominent feature, social media, society is tending towards a Holistic, public, Cosmopolity.  Now, if the time-frame of the earlier transition is any example, it may be centuries before such a Global Village is fully actualized.  In the meantime, the thesis has application to current events, e. g. it locates the recent American repudiation of NAFTA in a more comprehensive historical context, thereby prompting the inference that it is a symptom of growing pains, rather a simple expression of Nationalism.