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It's almost as if he's annoyed by the total decimation of local services that used to be able to handle such things his party has brought about since 2009.
Local services is part of it, but I also think there's a lack of communication around safe, considerate societal behaviour. For example: There used to be PSAs all over the TV, but there's nothing now. We don't need to go back to 70s one that traumatised kids but some common understanding of what's accepted is missing.
Guess the death of broadcast media doesn't help.
Are kids even taught manners in school anymore either? People see this stuff as backwards, but it goes a long way in making a better society.
Admittedly, I don't take the train or bus anywhere near as much as I used to, but when I did there were always poster adverts about being respectful towards other riders and staff. Have those gone away, or is it that there is another influence supplanting that messaging?
Perhaps phones being much more engaging that people actually spend a lot less time reading the PSAs and adverts around them?
In a weirdly similar way, I remember pre COVID there used to be so many more drivers that would be blasting music with their windows down that it rarely deserved a second thought. It's much more rare to hear it nowadays, to the extent that when I do, it seems so much more obnoxious.
I think most applicable surface now just contain commercial adverts. Side effects of needing other revenue streams because investment is so bad? Maybe.
Phones still allow for adverts