News Flash
I haven't been very good about posting so far because I've been super busy at college, as usual. Eventually I will get around to posting my thoughts on what I want this blog to be about and what kind of stuff I am going to be putting in it. But that time is not now.
For, I just wanted to post this CNN link because I found it to be very interesting:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/07/titanic.survivor.ap/index.html
Generally speaking I think stories like these are crap because they are generally done as filler on slow news days. I'm sure a few people will find stories about random people with a marginal claim to fame interesting, but the majority of people don't give half a damn and neither, I'm sure, does the writer of the article. In this case, however, what fascinates me is the age of the person involved. It's really amazing to imagine a person who lived through events as disparate in time as the sinking of the Titanic and say, 9/11. It might sound cliche but it really never ceases to interest me. I think it's part of this weird thing that humans like to sometimes do which is to wonder, "If X dead person were alive today, what would he/she think of what we have done with their legacy?" Sort of like wondering what Alexander Graham Bell would think of cell phones or the Founding Fathers would think of the modern United States government. We have a tendency to seek the approval of earlier generations, as though they somehow had the ability to think more clearly or with more foresight than we can and therefore their opinion would improve the modern world for the better. This is of course nonsense because why couldn't they have improved their own world if they know so much, but nevertheless its something that I think a lot of people can't help but think about.
I don't know, maybe I'm way off here.
For, I just wanted to post this CNN link because I found it to be very interesting:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/07/titanic.survivor.ap/index.html
Generally speaking I think stories like these are crap because they are generally done as filler on slow news days. I'm sure a few people will find stories about random people with a marginal claim to fame interesting, but the majority of people don't give half a damn and neither, I'm sure, does the writer of the article. In this case, however, what fascinates me is the age of the person involved. It's really amazing to imagine a person who lived through events as disparate in time as the sinking of the Titanic and say, 9/11. It might sound cliche but it really never ceases to interest me. I think it's part of this weird thing that humans like to sometimes do which is to wonder, "If X dead person were alive today, what would he/she think of what we have done with their legacy?" Sort of like wondering what Alexander Graham Bell would think of cell phones or the Founding Fathers would think of the modern United States government. We have a tendency to seek the approval of earlier generations, as though they somehow had the ability to think more clearly or with more foresight than we can and therefore their opinion would improve the modern world for the better. This is of course nonsense because why couldn't they have improved their own world if they know so much, but nevertheless its something that I think a lot of people can't help but think about.
I don't know, maybe I'm way off here.
posted by Svengali Jack at 9:58 PM
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