Forsdale: And there’s some others as you go out.
McLuhan: High rise enhances privacy; it obsolesces community; it retrieves catacomb—apartment is not a home—it reverses into slum. Instant slum. Because in a crisis the high rise dwellers form a community at once. Enhances privacy is extreme form of privacy. Obsolesces community: people are so private they don’t want to ever get acquainted. Retrieves the catacomb: an apartment is not a home.
Forsdale: An apartment is a catacomb.
McLuhan: And reverses into slum. But, Dr. McCulloch, the cancer man, found that he could take any of his therapies and put them in that form and find out what they would
