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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!