Getting a strong Big Trouble in Little China drive from Steve--you could argue the trucker took the place of the sailor around the 70s before abruptly fading out of existence once Margaret Thatcher decreed that you couldn't make movies about working-class people that weren't some kind of social commentary.
Yes the trucker! A crucial piece of socioeconomic history! We have to bring back the transport worker as protagonist. Everyone who does those jobs now is either a Trump voter or a third world guy or both, so I reckon it's been easy to overlook them.
Very anglicentric look at things, this ;-). I must remark, that the sailor is alive and well but overlooked in media, sadly. A friend to my parents captained super freighters until retirement in the mid-2000s. Man was an old-school dude who liked to tell tales from the high seas between Hong Kong and (our native) Hamburg. Of said Philipino sailors getting into knife-fights over family feuds from back home. Of shootouts between corporate mercenaries and Somali pirates. Of a deck officar trying to impress whores in South East Asia by getting his teeth gold-plated in Shanghai only to have them all rot underneath all that bling.
Yeah, it's still there but the fiction has moved elsewhere (except for that Tom Hanks movie? I hated that one).
This rules. I never hear about this stuff, I need more people in my life who are the captains of super freighters. I think one problem is that there's less contact now between the people who write stories and the people who do interesting jobs.
Welcome back Mr. Strange Eons your honour, sir
t. semiurge
I will stay this time, I'm stuck on like a limpet now.
Good to see you back, hopefully for good.
Getting a strong Big Trouble in Little China drive from Steve--you could argue the trucker took the place of the sailor around the 70s before abruptly fading out of existence once Margaret Thatcher decreed that you couldn't make movies about working-class people that weren't some kind of social commentary.
Yes the trucker! A crucial piece of socioeconomic history! We have to bring back the transport worker as protagonist. Everyone who does those jobs now is either a Trump voter or a third world guy or both, so I reckon it's been easy to overlook them.
Very anglicentric look at things, this ;-). I must remark, that the sailor is alive and well but overlooked in media, sadly. A friend to my parents captained super freighters until retirement in the mid-2000s. Man was an old-school dude who liked to tell tales from the high seas between Hong Kong and (our native) Hamburg. Of said Philipino sailors getting into knife-fights over family feuds from back home. Of shootouts between corporate mercenaries and Somali pirates. Of a deck officar trying to impress whores in South East Asia by getting his teeth gold-plated in Shanghai only to have them all rot underneath all that bling.
Yeah, it's still there but the fiction has moved elsewhere (except for that Tom Hanks movie? I hated that one).
This rules. I never hear about this stuff, I need more people in my life who are the captains of super freighters. I think one problem is that there's less contact now between the people who write stories and the people who do interesting jobs.