From New York Post · · 1m 10s
Why can't we just behave? Rudeness is everywhere now
From shirtless bikers in banks to screaming strangers, basic manners have vanished from American life.
In brief
From shirtless bikers in banks to screaming strangers, basic manners have vanished from American life. Common courtesy and basic manners have largely disappeared from everyday American interactions, leaving a society where rudeness has become the norm. Originally reported by New York Post.
Manners have disappeared
Basic courtesies like napkins, helping others, and simple politeness are gone. Kids bring weapons to kindergarten instead of learning materials.
“We once had a book about manners. Now no book. Now no manners.”
Shirtless bikers, wrong-way cyclists
People ride bikes the wrong way and slam into pedestrians without apology. A shirtless man casually rides into a Chase Bank.
Politeness gets you screamed at
A respected attorney stepped back to let a young woman enter an elevator first. She screamed at him, calling him stupid and an antique.
“What're you, stupid? An antique? We're same as you, good as you. Do same jobs as you.”
Emily Post is ancient history
The 1922 etiquette guide is now only useful for propping up furniture. Nobody knows how to behave in public anymore.
Experts blame the pandemic
Specialists say the decline started after COVID-19. But the connection between a health crisis and abandoning basic decency remains unclear.
America is falling apart
Empty churches, closed schools, broken trains, contaminated food, and crumbling infrastructure. The greatest nation is manufacturing liars and losers.
“All we're manufacturing are liars and losers.”
The bottom line
Common courtesy and basic manners have largely disappeared from everyday American interactions, leaving a society where rudeness has become the norm.
