Lezard’s review of Barber’s book, Jihad vs McWorld, suggests that the “relationship between Jihad and McWorld is moving away from conscious and collective human control and toward anarchy. Jihad is driven by parochial hatreds and aims to re-create subnational and ethnic borders from within the nation-state. McWorld universalizes markets and effectively makes borders porous from without. Both, therefore, “make war on the sovereign nation-state and thus undermine the nation-state’s democratic institutions.” McWorld is the "sterile cultural monism " we are all now very familiar with; the world of "shallow but uniform" consumer culture seen in shopping malls across the developed world, and encroaching on the developing world fast.” He continues
