kingofherrings
replied to your post “sathinfection: I found out today that in 1555 there was a joint stock…”fun (horrible) fact: the northwest passage is kind of a thing now like @marjorierose says but so recent that people were writing songs about the futility of finding it in,like, the 1980s.
OH MY GOD??? that’s so upsetting. like, humans have finally found mastery over their environment by ruining everything only to realise this will ALSO ruin ourselves.
Reblogging to add that Stan Rogers’ “North-West Passage” was such a popular song that some of the CBC radio shows I listened to as a kid had the rule “we take song requests but not for “North-West Passage,” otherwise we’d be playing it every day WE WILL PLAY IT WHEN APPROPRIATE, LISTENERS
Mooncustafer 