[78-L] Titanic Songs ENOUGH ALREADY

[David Lennick]

Like many a fable, Greek legend or what have you..hubris. And as Cary has 
pointed out, something positive did emerge that would make ocean travel safer. 
Positive things come out of wars and plagues as well, or mankind might as well 
pack it in. The musical was awful as well (and I say that with caution, since 
many people I know were in the Toronto production of it....they were great, but 
Maury Yeston is a hack composer).

And now for the lighter side of The Titanic. I think it's a "Bizarro" panel 
that shows a ship, an iceberg, a captain, and a device speaking the word 
"Recalculating".

dl

On 4/9/2012 6:09 PM, Philip Carli wrote:
> David - I'll simply send what I wrote on Facebook in a post on A NIGHT TO REMEMBER:
>
> I've studied the TITANIC most of my life, as well as other shipwrecks. However, the TITANIC's eternal fascination is that the tragedy encapsulated and compressed many of the 20th century's emerging concerns - technology, social instability, commercial hubris, national identity among them - into a two hour and forty minute progression from life's beginning to its end, with inequities, heroism, cowardice, luck, and base (in every sense) humanity evident from moment to moment, and these issues have only become more prominent and persistent over the last hundred years. The more I read and learn, even after forty years, the more I wonder.
>
> Back to here and now, David - it really marked a moment of philosophical change, when the concept that humankind and its "progress" could triumph over everything was completely disproved.  It was also one of the first technological disasters whose _two_ contemporary formal investigations revealed more than mere nuts-and-bolts evidence, but also human frailties, which surprised everyone.
>
> The Cameron film is an insult.
>
> Philip Carli
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> Am I the only person in the world who finds Titanic obsession sick beyond
> belief? Was this the only ship that ever sank in the history of the world?
> Sorry, but I have to let it out. As for the movie, I stood 4 minutes of it till
> I heard DiCrapio's so-called acting and said "That's it, folks". Yes it was a
> tragedy. It sank. People died. People died when the Hindenburg exploded. People
> died in mine disasters. People died in WWII. People died the other month when
> an idiot captain ran a luxury liner aground. People die because dictators are
> dictators. Will someone PLEASE explain what was so special about this one
> particular tragedy that raises it above others?
>
> Ready to receive brickbats.
>
> dl
>