2023-06-23 23:54:58
Five of the world’s richest people may have lost their lives suffocating in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean; In one of the strangest and rarest human accidents. They decided to take a diving trip into the depths of the ocean to see the wreckage of the famous ship, the Titanic, which sank since the beginning of the last century on its maiden voyage from Britain to the United States. They were planning to spend fun times in the depths of the ocean, while they were on board the submarine Titan, after each of them paid a quarter of a million dollars to reserve a place in the small submarine that can only accommodate five people. The submarine disappeared from radar screens less than three hours after the start of its dive, reaching a depth of 3,800 meters, where the shipwreck is. And as soon as the news spread, the developed world mobilized to provide all kinds of assistance in an attempt to save the disappeared submarine and its wealthy passengers, money, experts, huge and sophisticated equipment, specialists in rescue operations, and robots dedicated to such incidents. As of this writing, the news about the rescue operations is bad and disappointing, and does not bode well for any positive outcome.
It is difficult to imagine the situation in which the passengers of the small submarine were, in the depths of the ocean, where complete darkness, high pressure, and oxygen that is being consumed little by little, and where there is no way to escape or try to escape by getting out of the submarine, to approach the surface of the sea, as the submarine opens only from the outside, There is only one arm to control (similar to the PlayStation arm), and it is technically related to the ship that was carrying the submarine. This is how the five rich people will face the presence of death directly, they will watch its progress to them and they are unable to do anything to prevent it.
I try to imagine what went through their minds in moments like this: Did they regret, for example, that they had embarked on an entertaining adventure, knowing in advance its dangers? Do they think that they will survive despite the despair surrounding them, relying on the idea that their wealth will contribute to their rescue? Do they realize that the world will not give up trying to save them? Did they try to knock the walls of the submarine, or did they resign themselves to their terrifying fate, deciding not to do anything that consumed more oxygen? All of them are terrifying scenarios to imagine such moments, and put us all in the face of the idea of the relationship with fate, with death and life, with the human being that, no matter how impressive stages of development it has reached, is nothing compared to the capabilities, strength and might of nature. With the priorities of life and the problematic relationship with the idea of wealth and outrageous wealth that allows its owners to embark on deadly adventures, not with the intent of scientific exploration and benefiting humanity, but with the intent of breaking boredom and routine and distinguishing itself from the rest of the wealthy in the world, and showing off what can be done with wealth, which cannot be done by 99% of the rest humans do.
The international press called the incident the Titanic’s curse. The owner of the Titanic stated before the start of the famous ship’s voyage, more than a hundred years ago, that his ship defied the power of nature, and then sank as a result of its collision with an ice generation. Likewise, the owner of the company that owns the submarine stated before its voyage, saying that there is no force in the universe that can sink the submarine. But the submarine that was tracking the “Titanic” met the same fate, so the incident was called the Titanic’s curse.
The fantasy behind this label ignores a more terrifying real reality, and an incident that occurred just a few days ago, to be the most catastrophic in a series of similar incidents in the past decade; By it, I mean the sinking of the boat carrying 750 illegal immigrants, of whom only less than 80 survived, while the rest (mostly children and women) faced death directly, without having the opportunity to think about the rightness of what they had done on their journey, and without For them to think of the developed world coming to their rescue, because no one is concerned with the fate of the world’s poor, no one cares about the death of the poor, oppressed and miserable peoples. We are not more than the numbers that the press mentions, our multiple collective deaths are nothing more than news transmitted by the global media with apparent laziness, without making anyone move a finger to spare us what is worse. No one remembers our names and does not care about the reasons that made us risk our destinies and the destinies of our children who would have lived like the rest of the world’s children, had this world been more merciful and just.
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