the existential crisis. Angst of the “existens” movement in the, well when, in the ’30s, ’40s?

Forsdale: ’40s.

McLuhan: Existens is one of the first moments when they suddenly realized they had lost their identities, they were nobodies and they had no body.

Forsdale: I—ain’t—got—no—body, how does that old song go?

McLuhan: Oh, I got plenty of nothin’? Nothin’s plenty for me? 

Forsdale: There was an old song: I—ain’t—got—no—body.