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Artos
It's stunning from where we've come to from where we began.
Starting around the age of 10 (mid 1970s) I began spending summers with my grandparents. That meant sometimes I had to fly alone. In addition to there being somebody to reassure me that I'm getting on the right plane, my luggage made it too and I'm making the right connection (because I don't think Ozark airlines connected out of Ft Lauderdale), my father made sure I had a shirt and tie because that is how you dressed on an airline. As a kid I sorta hated it, but that was the rules so ok.
Last time I flew in 2015 it really was an airbus complete with people wearing flip flops and shorts.
While I appreciate the deregulation that Reagan brought to the airlines, which made flying more affordable, a person can still be presentable given that we are all trapped in this can together for 6 hours or so. Don't need a suit to fly, but also don't need to look and smell like you just came from the gym.
It wasn't everyone, but as a group called Americans, we used to have a little more class. As a general rule, almost everyone knew how to act and conduct themselves respectably. Didn't really cost money and honestly working class folks were probably slightly more conscious of how they represent themselves.
Somewhere, somehow we crossed a cultural line where "you can't tell me what to do, I do what I want" took priority over consideration for everyone around you. And I'm not talking about rights, I'm talking about knowing how to act out in public.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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