[nopardons]

Your sarcasm has been noted.

But answer me this: If manners, propriety, and civility all are fleeting and utterly nonimportant, especially IF you like a person, FROM AFAR, then just WHY have such thing been EXTREMELY important throughout all of recorded history?

Since the by now hoary old "DO YOUR OWN THING", was/is still just OH SO "WONDERFUL", then WHY are you not aghast at recent stories about a woman passenger on a plane who stripped naked and defecated on a seat"? Or...were you upset about that?

And no, I am NOT saying that that plane story is on the same level, but it IS on the same disregard for what is expected. Ummmmmmmmm...okay, maybe not; but people wearing pajamas or worse, on a plane, is a better fit. Because once upon a time, people wore nice clothes to fly in.

[higgmeister]

OK, it is like this, "post hoc ergo propter hoc."   Your accusation is considering a false premise.   There are a myriad of things that may cause civilizations to crumble.

The First Lady wearing a sleek black pantsuit to a Ball that wasn't even a Ball is not high on the list.   It even seems almost silly to quibble about it, considering all of the things we have seen in seven plus decades.

Please tell me you are at least an octogenarian?