The services rendered to ecology by the dinosaur suddenly ended when the dinosaur achieved vasta bulk. As the dinosaur became an environment, he eased to accommodate to the existing world. He became pollution and ended. Today the truck and the motor car have long passed the point where their services exceed their disservices in the Western world.
“High-Rise Inverts Everybody into Nobody,” essay written for the NY Times, never published; 1972 typescript, p 1
Year: 1972
Chapter:
Planet, Nature
↪ Also at #5414
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan