We complete the reading of Antony's longform essay with the dramatic sinking and its overmath. Ordinary humans of all levels of means and status fight for their lives against the slow, inevitable creep of death, and after the disaster there's equal measures of genuine humanity and ugly scapegoating
The story of R.M.S. Titanic and its unfortunate fate seems to have everything, both good and bad, in terms of how society views itself, its apparently superior relationship to nature and people’s relationships to their fellow man. This is a historical event but it’s also a story full of drama and human interest, and one that has been subject to constant revision in the 110 years since the ship sank.
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episode links
The essay in full
https://www.antonyrotunno.com/2021/07/24/legends-and-folly-the-remarkable-story-of-r-m-s-titanic
Links to the 2 main books used as sources
2-part documentary series on the disaster ‘Death of A Dream’ and ‘The Legend Lives On’
https://archive.org/details/Titanic_The_Legend_Lives_On_A_And_E_WOC_1994-07-25
The 1958 film ‘A Night To Remember’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ftYho4K3FQ
Robert Ballard talks about the discovery of the Titanic in 1985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q3eA6wYil4
Titanic wreck footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iVYT_I1gL4