Bingowings said:
I mentioned them because they are within living memory.
The Zeebrugge disaster had a much smaller death toll but it was a major event in the UK at the time but hardly anyone remarks about it now.
I'm sure there are similar events around the world where reminding the general population may have some benefit to the survivors families and remind engineers and legislators of the human costs of things going wrong.
nothing is wrong with reminding the world of these events. There indeed may be a benefit to doing so. Still, it is no reason to not recognize the 100th anniversary of the Titanic. Lessons can still be learned about it, and the lessons already learned still need to be passed on the next generations.
Bingowings said:
The current wave of Titanicmania is bizarre and a bit mawkish from my perspective.
I don't know how bad it is elsewhere in the world but it's getting more coverage 100 years later than current disasters are getting which seems a bit bonkers to me.
well it is the 100th anniversary of disaster that generated countless books, movies, made for tv movies, multiple miniseries, and a Broadway Musical. When you have a 100th anniversary for something that generates all that, there is bound to mania around it. It is nothing new. Watch what happens when November 22, 2013 comes around, watch what happens when we have the 25th anniversary of 911, etc.
Bingowings said:
There was the memorial cruise with cosplay which was just calling for the cosmic jester to roll out the plotline of Titanic 2 for real.
well, lets hope nothing else happens on that cruise. We don't need another disaster.
