superinframan: drawing-bored: that was a weird day. like, we’d…
Saturday, January 27th, 2018
that was a weird day. like, we’d never show a murder over and over again on television, all day. but, when it’s something like the challenger explosion or 9-11 or the columbia breakup, they show us footage of people dying as many times as we’re willing to watch. and i’m not sure what the difference is.
I wonder if it’s because so many of us watched it live? I was just barely old enough to be in school, and they wheeled in the AV cart so we could watch the shuttle launch. It was an event.
My teacher didn’t know what to say to us when it exploded. We weren’t quite sure what to think of it either.
Cold War, Reagan, all that invincible bravado against the Russians. And then our technological achievement became this horrific reminder of mortality and hubris.
http://www.lies.com/wiki/?PhotosFromTheSpaceShuttleColumbia
Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/170180170555.
