Tribe Ch 3 analysis
Throughout chapter 3 of Tribe, Junger highlights the importance of having a sense of belonging when coming back from war. He also explains how PTSD can show up in many different ways and forms, depending on factors like how you were raised, if you've lost a loved one, or even if you weren't held enough as a child, you are more likely to develop anxiety tendencies that connect to PTSD later on in life. People often wonder why soldiers have difficulty adjusting to society when returning from war. Junger attempts to answer this question by saying, "... the individualized lifestyles that those technologies spawn seem to be deeply brutalizing to the human spirit... we are an anti-human society." We have been able to see firsthand how technology has made us as a society become isolated. History proves that having people around that you have a true connection with in your day-to-day life, you feel safer and you feel like you belong. Junger reiterates this time and time again throughout this book because war brings people together on a deeper level, the second that bond or connection starts to fade, you feel alone. The soldiers that come back from war don't have anyone to connect with, because no one here relates to what they have been through on that battlefield. We have never had a war fought on our own land in modern society. Because of this, we don't truly know what it's like to form a bond with someone over war, we don't truly understand what these men have been through. But when they do come back, it is almost like we, as a society, put a spotlight on these men because they DID decide to fight for us, causing them to feel more isolated. All these men truly want is a connection and possibly a job so they feel like they're playing their part in society again.