Comment by jrflowers

> commentators going on about the wax melting from their parents root cellar while Icarus was soaring.

Icarus drowned in the sea.

Even if you want to put the world into only two lumps of cellar dwellers and Icaruses it is still a group of living people on one side and a floating/semi-submerged pile of dead bodies that are literally only remembered for how stupid their deaths were on the other.