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Seriously? What part of sleeping in a hot, humid field with thousands of other people is desirable? Since when is sleeping a group effort? Start with the noise

by joonix 13y ago

Seriously? What part of sleeping in a hot, humid field with thousands of other people is desirable? Since when is sleeping a group effort? Start with the noise and end with the spread of disease, the bugs, the rats, the bed bugs, etc etc... Air conditioning, especially powerful central air (which we do not have in NYC, for shame) is glorious in heat and humidity like this. The only problem is the huge amount of energy we use doing it. I hope we can come up with better renewable electricity sources so we can all bask in as much AC as we want.

dpcan 13y ago
This is kind-of my point. Nothing is desirable about the heat or sleeping outside. What IS desirable is having situations where I'm forced to converse with neighbors and live among them instead of separated from them. It just might be nice to be in those situations. The closest situation I can relate to is our heavy winters (where I live). I don't see half my neighbors all summer because we are cooped up inside, HOWEVER we have daily conversations in the winter as we're all standing at the curb taking a breather from the heavy shoveling.