Forsdale: When I went into a tuberculosis sanitarium many years ago, on the first day the head doctor came around and said to me, “What are you doing here?” And rather than clobbering him, I said, “I’ve got tuberculosis.” And he said, “I know that, but everybody has got tuberculosis, everybody who walks on the face of the earth houses the tuberculosis bacillus. How come you’ve decided to let it take over?” Being quite serious, and he was, you know, among the early, not that early by any means, but he was a holistic doctor who was saying, “Look, let’s look at your life, and see how come it was convenient for you at this moment to have tuberculosis.” It’s a sort of an out-of- fashion disease, too.
McLuhan: Actually, diseases are human artifacts. Diseases are not just something that nature produces. They’re made
