A Boring Dystopia

The only costume I wanna wear for work is a mascot costume for a sports team that named themselves after an animal.

Nonsense ideology that dates back to medieval times. I subscribed to it for years until I realized it had no bearing on my work. I tell my interns and staff “dress appropriately,” meaning be comfortable - unless we’re meeting with clients, whose expectations may not align.

Dress codes serve as class signifiers. Like most rules of decorum, they're cultural artifacts used to delineate the haves from the have-nots. They don't dislike the fact that Fetterman refuses to wear a suit. They dislike the fact that he dresses like the common people he actually represents. Whereas they dress like the people they represent - capitalist oligarchs. They're wanting to close ranks and keep people from realizing that not everyone in the senate serves the same masters.

People with their little collars and jackets and ties to make them feel important

Isn't the logic that it's an easy thing to use as a sign of conformance? A check to see if you're willing to compromise your personal choices for the groups mandate?

Probably never. People will always judge others based on how they are dressed. We subconsciously attach a certain image of what people should look like. And these dress codes are often enforced by society indirectly. 99% of people would not want to have a lawyer dressed casually to court and will pick someone else even if the alternative is by all accounts not as good as the casually dressed lawyer.

So youre saying that things need to impact these people?

It is funny and sad how many ways of getting ahead in society can be interpreted as testing your tolerance for bullshit.

Ever since that one congressman wore one to protest the treatment of black kids by the police for wearing them.

Fuck that.

Denim three piece suit

There are laws against insider trading not only in general but also specifically for Congressmen. Also, there have been (failed) bills to raise the federal minimum wage, including an attempt to add it into the stimulus bill in 2021 as a $15 Minimum Wage.

People like to ask "WhY iS noBOdY DoInG SoMEtHInG?!" while completely ignoring that one party consistently is trying but we never give them enough seats in the senate to actually do it.

You wanna know why freedom of speech and freedom of assembly are legal and encouraged? Because it does nothing. The American revolution wasn't a sit-in.

And where is the public uproar about this?

We've had crowds in the street protesting social injustice practically every year since the Seattle WTO riots of the 1990s. If you haven't seen a public outcry, you haven't been paying attention.

The problem is that the outcries are fractured, the movements regularly subverted by a combination of con-artists and police, and a lot of the mass media ideology poisons people against one another by ethnicity, religion, gender, and locale. Folks who can all agree that the Sacklers deserve a long drop from a short rope will scream invective at one another because one of them showed up wearing a BLM t-shirt and the other finds it offensive. Folks who all agree de-industrialization was a nightmare for the midwest will tear each others eyes out over the abortion debate.

That's even before you get to the intense bombardment of mass media, fixating on everything from Ukraine to Crime Wave to razor blades in candy to whatever the hotbutton gaff of the evening happens to be.

I don't think anyone is hearing crickets. More that we're trying to hear a finely tuned orchestra under the sound of exploding bombs.

Not if you're a member of Congress.