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I don't care for Wagner's bust. I care for his music. Edit: Cousteau's work is as bad as his character.

• billbrown 6y ago
  He blew up a reef one time in a documentary in the 50s. Do you know if he ever changed his mind about the event? Or was he just a-dynamitin' till the end? (I ask rhetorically because even a cursory read of his Wikipedia page would demonstrate that his actions afterwards undercut that sort of cavalier attitude to the undersea environment. I believe he explicitly repudiated that action besides but I can't find where.) Moreover, what _else_ of his work is bad? That one thing? He produced educational films, books, speeches, etc. for almost four decades after that film.
• henearkr 6y ago
  Well, people building/buying Wagner's busts are some big fans of his music who want somehow to materialize their fandom. They certainly are not fans of his life, his life is extremely irrelevant, it may as well be totally forgotten, and it would not hurt. About your last edit: here I beg to disagree. I love his work as a filmmaker, it made me love the sea and nature in general and made me want to protect it. When I was a child he contributed to educate me and make me an environmentalist. On me at least, his work was tremendously successful. As an engineer, he created a lot of devices used today for diving. His boat Alcyone was even sporting revolutionary static turbosails.