Spotlight Saturday: What Sunk the Titanic? Boomers & Protectionism
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Titanic sank due to enormous uncontrollable fire, not iceberg, claim experts
It wasn’t an iceberg that sunk the Titanic. It was a fire in the ship’s hull. If this theory is true, this may change our understanding of the past forever. So far there seems to be strong evidence.
“New analysis of rarely seen photographs has prompted researchers to blame the fire as the primary cause of the ship’s demise.”
A slice:
“Boomers wanted to be rock stars. That would solve everything. They dismissed the train of deaths in the ‘70s of their rock heroes as outliers, and focused on the sex, drugs and money. Grunge was depressing music. They never noticed that many of the big names leading grunge music bands were products of divorce (Cobain, Staley, Vedder, Alexakis, Cornell). Fame wasn’t going to fix their personal problems, and with three of them dead, it likely exacerbated them. It might have been more appropriate to call grunge divorce rock.”
A 1994 article on the destructive tendencies of globalization. The article was written at the time the NAFTA agreement was signed into law. A lot of the author’s predictions for the United States came true: lower wages for middle & working classes, worsening business services, destruction of the family.
A slice:
“Even the U.S. worker who happens to be competing head-on with an Indian counterpart is paid according to the supply and demand for his skills in the U.S. labor market, and not the Indian market. But life for the vast number of Americans who now participate in the global economy, wittingly or unwittingly, is full of exciting surprises and catastrophic downfalls.”