In a more primitive sense speech and clothing alike 
are anti-environments that beat time and clime 
alike. Speech and then writing beat time. Clothing 
beats clime. In commerce and perhaps in all 
institutional activities including the party system in 
politics, the anti-environmental control seems 
necessary. The market and prices are anti-
environments for production. Humor as an 
institution can be seen as anti-environment for 
grievances, whether it is Hamlet’s “antic 
disposition” or Steve Allen’s theory “the funny man 
is a man with a grievance.” What a light that sheds 
on the Medieval clown and King Lear!