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Posted on 04/30/2026 4:58:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber
uring the past 50-plus years, there has been a decline in the formality of workplace office attire, an increase in little children calling adult neighbors and relatives by their first names, and an increase of “sloppy Joe” or “sloppy Jane” clothing on our college campuses. In our largest city — New York — fare evasions on buses and subways are at an all-time high. The misbehavior in our public schools has reached intolerable levels. All sectors of everyday life are in decline.
Bus drivers in NYC are not as likely as in past years to insist that passengers pay their fares in order to ride the bus. And in the NYC subways, as in the years before Rudy Giuliani became mayor, more and more riders are jumping turnstiles and, after jumping the turnstile, opening one of the locked gates for a minute to allow friends or strangers to enter without paying.
Office attire is more “casual” than ever. Now, in midtown Manhattan where there are thousands of business offices, we find fewer and fewer men wearing ties and jackets. The women are also casually dressed. There is an assault on what is now being called “formal attire.” This reflects a deep-seated sense that hierarchies of competence are deemed less important. Even years after COVID, many are still working from home in their pajamas or torn jeans, and this is perceived by many as an improvement over forced compliance to “office subcultures.”
In addition to the above-noted “informality,” we are seeing the fruit of 50 years of feminism. Gloria Steinem came into the limelight in the 1970s. Since then, marriages are down, births are down, and depression medications are being prescribed at high levels.
Also, college admissions over the decades after the 1960s would no longer be based mainly upon SAT
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People are becoming much less polite in general.
I climbed Pikes Peak once in my teens. I’d like to do it again, with family.
Look no further than Hollywood’s evolution the last 120 years. Films used to have moral themes. The hero didn’t go around murdering, lying, stealing, cheating, betraying and manipulating to ‘win’.
Movies are now all about amorality. What’s good for the ‘good guy’ is Good, what’s bad for him is Bad. It’s all circumstantial and relative.
Civilization has been undermined and attacked for well over a century....
Celebrate mediocrity! (Or even degeneracy!)
Leftists leave misery and destruction in their wake.
Office attire no longer what it was? When it comes to attire,,,,, they flown on an airline?….lol
I remember noticing how advertising graphics on TV, some of the cartoons, kid’s clothing, etc. that had a psychedelic look to them. It was kinda weird in a way. One the one hand, we had anti-drug seminars in the classroom, and on the other was the stuff becoming mainstream in pop art and culture. Even as a kid, I had this feeling that things were heading in the wrong direction.
this describes blue cities.
if you dress for success means you’re wearing ripped jeans in the office, your ‘success’ will be metered accordingly.
It’s not so much that American society is changing as much as demographics are changing. Sixty five years of third world shithole immigration has destroyed the American fabric.
Minneapolis resembles Mogadishu.
New York City has become the slums of Calcutta.
Los Angeles long ago was conquered and is now Mexico City California.
Detroit has become Gaza.
A decline in the formality of workplace office attire? Amen. It's long overdue. It's classism held over from the British.
An increase in little children calling adult neighbors and relatives by their first names? Let's go back to the affectations of 'Sir', 'Lord', and 'Lady'. That will polish the turd.
In our largest city — New York — fare evasions on buses and subways are at an all-time high. The misbehavior in our public schools has reached intolerable levels. All sectors of everyday life are in decline.
The author insists on pretending that the size of New York City means something. It's a dump. And attempting to shame manipulate the residents to dress up in costumes and teaching them to converse about irrelevant history, all while using language only used in older academic circles, isn't going to change that.
Bus fare beaters? Subway turnstile jumpers? Welcome to a Democrat city. Changing how they dress and speak won't change who they are.
Now, in midtown Manhattan where there are thousands of business offices, we find fewer and fewer men wearing ties and jackets.
Who is this self-appointed "we" which deems that more men should be wearing ties and jackets? The author is free to wear his tie and his jacket. He can also add a top hat, shoe spats, and a monocle if he so desires. Maybe add mutton chops. "I can't wear my self-esteem costume without standing out unless enough others also else wear one."
The author admits in the article that he was all for "Affirmative Action" at Penn State University where he taught. Celebrate the monster you created, Dr. Frankenstein.
This writer would emphasize as well the lackadaisical, undisciplined psychological and moral climate of our society.
Really afraid to say "I" Teach. No? Just say it. You embraced the Leftist lackadaisical, undisciplined psychological and moral climate. You helped make the bed. You lie in it. Don't whine that someone else won't change what you did. Tone policing may make you feel better but it's denial.
In a course that covered the Middle Ages and feudalism, I asked, “What was the feudal manor?”
I wouldn't fault anyone for not caring to know that answer. In an increasingly complex world, knowing what a feudal manor is, if you're not a history major, is a waste of time and mental space. It's part of the miseducation of the American mind, designed to keep students ignorant in their own world. The indoctrination system that the author is a part of has intentionally hidden the truth that we're living in feudal manors. Teach that truth to the students. They'll perk right up because they know they're getting screwed but don't know how it's all happening.
The author despises the reality that he spends his day babysitting teenagers. Instead of accepting it, he wants to blame "society". Just say it Teach; "I want better students so that I can feel my life wasn't wasted. Don't make me face the truth that I've been part of a Misinformation Industry. Don't tell me the bloom is off the rose and New York City isn't all that."
Flashback to 1976:
I would add too , that people don’t dress up to go to church anymore. If we want to talk about declining standards, I think we could mention that.
Ferals require a lot of supervision.
“ Gloria Steinem came into the limelight in the 1970s. Since then, marriages are down, births are down, and depression medications are being prescribed at high levels.”
? “Gloria Steinem”
No. It was artificial birth control, which includes abortion, not the other way around. Nearly 60 million surgical abortions in the US and the post abortive mothers, what percentage on antidepressants, otherwise messed up, not to mention the fathers, the perpetual 17 year old boys.
No one talking about proportionally it in real terms
Elephant in the room.
Pshaw Gloria Steinem. She alone is not responsible for this
Bfl
Collapse of American Society
When heathens and pagans breed it never gets better.
-PJ
Travel in all its forms is dangerous these days. It sucks to pay for the privilege of being seated next to tomorrow’s headline.
The informality started fairly abruptly in 1964 or so, with Vatican 2, the SDS (Comintern phalanx) taking over the youth in universities, and just generally on the street and the media.
You could call it an op. If it was an op, it was perhaps the single most effective one.
Wearing a jacket and tie in an office or school is a very powerful signal to all the important people: employees, clients, visitors, investors.
It says that you all take your assignments and the mission seriously.
All of the above is borne out by experience and even research.
Bring back some degree of formality and uniformity in schools and offices and things start improving immediately.
If you are willing, look up old YouTube historical footage of Harlem street scenes in the 1950s.
What I say is true.
Another proof is if you wear a blazer and tie into a typical postmodern workplace you will find many people (almost always liberals) who immediately get hostile at your attire, they in their jeans, executive T-shirts, and precise three-day stubbles.
Clownish attire --It's an op. An effective one.
Zero accountability, and nowhere is this more obvious than in the upper levels of our government. They are not upholding standards of behavior and accountability for the rest of the country to follow.
You can understand why John Wayne disliked Clint Eastwood’s movies. Both were/are conservative, macho men, who usually played lone wolves. Wayne usually played heroes who fought the bad guys honestly and cleanly. Eastwood was an antihero, whose Westerns and detective movies showed moral ambiguity and flawed heroes. The society that you saw in Wayne movies was fundamentally sound, with bad guys like Liberty Valance being outside decent circles. There was also a funny sidekick to Wayne like Andy Devine or Walter Brennan. In the Eastwood movies, the society in San Francisco or Lago was as corrupt as the villains and the Eastwood character was at war with the corrupt officials as much as with the bad guys. There is far less humor in Eastwood movies, with his partners often getting killed like in the Dirty Harry movies or The Outlaw Josey Wales.
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