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8/21/2018 9:32:33 AM
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RE: A Necro-inspired post on air conditioning
Now let us leave the 1920s of Inherit the Wind and the 1930s of To Kill a Mockingbird and hurdle forth to the late 1950s of Perry Mason.
You'll observe that Raymond Burr is always cool and collected, ever the urbane rhetorician and impeccable gentleman. Is this because man has evolved since the 1920s? Unequivocally not.
It is because of air conditioning. By the 1950s, courtrooms had proper climate control -- at least the ones in big cities. Do Paul Drake, Della Street, Lt. Tragg -- even the excitable district attorney, Mr. Burger -- do they sweat or faint?
Positively not.
This is all thanks to air conditioning.
Perry Mason can be calm and collected precisely because he doesn't have to thrash his way through a room full of toilet paper rolls. Or stoves.
Air conditioning restrains us. It civilizes and ennobles us. It is arguably the greatest determinant in mankind's rise from the prehistoric muck.
It's better than tartar sauce.
