Posted on 01/20/2012 7:35:10 PM PST by Kaslin
Abe Greenwald of Commentary magazine tweets: "Is there any chance that Mark Steyn won't use the Italian captain fleeing the sinking ship as the lead metaphor in a column on EU collapse?"
Oh, dear. You've got to get up early in the morning to beat me to civilizational-collapse metaphors. Been there, done that. See page 185 of my most recent book, where I contrast the orderly, dignified and moving behavior of those on the Titanic (the ship, not the mendacious Hollywood blockbuster) with that manifested in more recent disasters.
There was no orderly evacuation from the Costa Concordia, just chaos punctuated by individual acts of courage from, for example, an Hungarian violinist in the orchestra and a ship's entertainer in a Spiderman costume, both of whom helped children to safety, the former paying with his life.
The miserable Captain Schettino, by contrast, is presently under house arrest, charged with manslaughter and abandoning ship. His explanation is that, when the vessel listed suddenly, he fell into a lifeboat and was unable to climb out. Seriously. Could happen to anyone, slippery decks and all that.
Next thing you know, he was safe on shore, leaving his passengers all at sea. On the other hand, the audio of him being ordered by Coast Guard officers to return to his ship and refusing to do so is not helpful to this version of events.
In the centenary year of the most famous of all maritime disasters, we would do well to consider honestly the tale of the Titanic. When James Cameron made his movie, he was interested in everything except what the story was actually about.
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The FEMINISTS have become SPECIES-ISTS, turning Men into animals.
“As usual, someone ALWAYS misses the point...”
LOL.
The engine-room scenes were good.
europeans make me sick..la de da de da!
Your list should also include CS Lewis, GK Chesterton and Robert Bork...and dare I say it, Glen Beck.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Interesting, I guess I never really thought about it from that point of view. I know the media ex. tv shows that portray it that way but didn’t realize that so many women act the way you described in real life. If that’s the case they’re a bunch of idiots. And they ruin it for the more traditional female. At least the young ones who are having to contend with this attitude from the guys they date...I actually see it with my daughter and her new husband. The way he treats her, the attitude he has about relationships is miles apart from what I witnessed growing up with my mother and father. In fact, she’s the one out working full time and he stays home with their child...but he doesn’t have dinner made or laundry put away etc. leaves that up to her too. The women of today don’t even require a commitment from men, they give it away for “free” sleeping with a guy, living with him, without marriage, and then many get saddled with a philanderer who’s fathered children with other women and they end up single moms. Go figure.
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