What the Titanic Means Today

COLD ATLANTIC STRIKE KILLING BECOME TRULY THING ANOTHER MATTER BEYOND 1955 SIGNIFICANCE UNTIL WORLD

   A century ago, on ___ April night in the ___ waters of the North ___, a world came to ___ end. When RMS Titanic ___ that iceberg and sank, ___ 1,500 people, the disaster ___ one of those few ___ landmark events before which ___ were one way and ___ which things were quite ___.

   The great lesson of ___ disaster is that no ___ how smart we think ___ are, how skilled and ___ technologically advanced, we remain ___ the mercy of events ___ our control.

Writing in ___, Walter Lord understood the ___ of the subject in ___ Night to Remember: “The ___ marked the end of ___ general feeling of confidence. ___ then men felt they ___ found the answer to ___ steady and civilized life. ___ 100 years the Western ___ had been at peace, technology had steadily improved and the benefits of peace and industry seemed to be filtering satisfactorily through society. The Titanic woke them up. Never again would they be quite so sure of themselves.”

   It seems fair to argue that the 20th century really began the night the Titanic sank. Two years later came the Great War, and the tragedy of Versailles, and the rise of Hitler, and the splitting of the atom, and so on.

   Yet perhaps the most interesting part of the centennial of the Titanic for us now lies in the fact that technology, like any other human endeavor, is flawed and subject to disaster. We can never innovate nor create ourselves totally out of harm’s way.

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