The sinking of the Titanic reflects a sense of dignity and order in the face of disaster, with individuals like Guggenheim and his valet choosing to go down with grace. Men demonstrated orderly behavior while women and many others perished. The engineers and electricians heroically kept the ship afloat for an extra 90 minutes at the cost of their lives. The orchestra played until the ship went down, symbolizing the themes of love and death. The speaker suggests that modern society's issues may stem from godlessness, technology, and materialism.
Corie sits down with military historian Dr. Edward A. Gutiérrez who studied the Doughboys from WW1. Dr. Gutiérrez specifically researched how a sense of honor and duty were engrained in the everyday culture of Americans prior to WW1 propelling many of them to enlist in the war. In this talk, Dr Gutiérrez suggests that as a culture moves away from embracing suffering, and even war and death, we lose cohesiveness, our humanity, and resilience as a society. He also shares how key motivations of honor and duty represented something different than it does today.
Dr. Edward A. Gutiérrez | Director, Center for Military History and Grand Strategy
Read: Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed Their Military Experience (Modern War Studies), by Dr. Edward A. Gutiérrez
This podcast is based on the book Military Culture Shift by clinical consultant and SME on military family culture, Corie Weathers. This podcast offers leaders an opportunity to understand the growing shifts happening within the military culture as an immersive supplement to the book. Based on 15 years of research, counseling, and teaching the military culture across all branches. Gain insights on changing perspectives within the culture, generational shifts in authority, the impact of Department of Defense budget decisions, emerging social trends within the military community, and the cumulative effect of two decades of the War on Terror on military family wellness.
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