Re: the Titanic

[Dennis R Redmond]

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, James Devine wrote:

> Can anyone think of a better metaphor than the Titanic one?

How about all those Spaceship Earth metaphors, i.e. a more eco-leaning 
Titanicity, where we're all supposed to be our own deck chairs? They're
still kind of incomplete, because spaceships are basically manufactured
satellites, is all, and it's hard to epitomize world history with a few
microships and solar panels from Raytheon. Late multinational capitalism
is just so unliterary. 

-- Dennis