Peaky Blinders Episode 3
Added 2025-07-11 17:00:12 +0000 UTCComments
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kinetic98
2025-07-13 03:45:17 +0000 UTCI listened to a very interesting lecture/essay thing to sleep the other night on how warriors back in antiquity and knights in the medieval age processed PTSD/CPTSD. In one of the more famous books in knighthood, the guy warns "when the war rests, the terrors begin." And essentially the video was saying that historically, the only way to get people through the horrors of war, was to make them believe it meant something. Knights were hands of God, smiting evil. Warriors were told that if they failed to protect their land, the monstrous other side would come in and kill their families, rape their women (which usually justified them to do the same because they believed the other side would.) This is where Anthropology suspects is the origin of demons or vengeful spirits who haunt you in your sleep began. The warriors, knights, and soldiers were reporting that after a battle, they'd see the faces of everyone they killed or harmed, tormenting them when they try to sleep. Interestingly, they'd use opium to quell the "terrors" even that far back apparently. Or other herbs like wormwood. The vikingr were taught to believe that death was a release and not the end because they'd be reborn after being rewarded by the Gods for valiant efforts, so they wouldn't fear death as much, and wouldn't feel as much guilt over taking the lives of other warriors as well. I'll try to find this video again to share it, it was very interesting. But ya, even America, I learned in my history class that everything from how we train workers and how we run schools is all engineered to make us as patriotic and obedient to government as possible so if there is a draft, we will be eligible workers and soldiers from the get-go, but the internet and social progress broke up that process by making us learn to question things and to value our mental health more, which means learning to set boundaries for others and ourselves, and learning to seek things we enjoy rather than following the standard status quo just because that's what was expected. Our culture teaches us you're only going to be successful as a doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or politician because that's what our government wants more of, and then having holidays like 4th of July that make us repeatedly worship the idea of the glory of winning the war and honoring the lives of those who did it before us.. it's all engineered. (I'm speaking from a Anthropology pov btw, not from an opinion based one. I'm neither saying it's good or bad, it is just what it is, as we are very systematic creatures building invisible structures that "keep us safe" and by questioning it, we are therefore making ourselves "unsafe" by taking down those walls, but it's ok to look at things from a neutral observation and let down your walls to see things from other perspectives so you can make your own decisions. In Anthropology, we have to learn to do this as a skill in order to study societies and cultures we might have a bias against, so that's what I'm doing 😅) Anyway, that's how systematic war is. Governments are essentially training us from birth to be ready for it, making us believe something about it that will help us get through it, but there is no real preparation for the results of that. They expect soldiers to die in battle, so they haven't found many good ways to deal with the aftermath beyond therapy, a certain amount of Healthcare (not enough) and fancy medals to make us feel like we did something for others when it probably stops feeling that way by the end of it. I've been told by ex-vets that one of the biggest feelings that add to the void they feel when they come home is the feeling of dissolutionment with the system. They are groomed to believe the best thing you can do is fight for honor and glory and freedom, then they put you through horrendous conditioning to break you down to be as little human as possible, send you to dangerous places to fight, but while you're there it becomes all survival. No cause, no Gods, no good or evil. All you care about is making it to the next day. Then they come back with injured minds and bodies, broken spirits, to see a country that didn't notice they were gone, life went on as normal, the government doesn't give one shit about them or the citizenry, and everything's a lie. That they thought they were fighting for freedom, but then they come back to see the country even less free than it was when they left, so they feel ashamed for even fighting for the country. (what they've expressed to me for one field study assignment I did in Trump's first term) but that dissolutionment that they feel, where they feel manipulated, abandoned, and like they fought for no reason and reaped no reward for it is the biggest factor for a lot of soldiers, warriors, ect. Coming back with severe depression. I think Arthur is feeling that similar dissolution with Tommy, and the Peaky Blinders are feeling that with the government as a whole. It's such a sad, sad and unavoidable problem that feels like it SHOULD be avoidable. Unfortunately, the only ones who could find that solution are the ones who've been through it and can heal enough to work for a change in the system, which there are very few who feel they can after all that. There are people who come close enough to empathize that can relate to the problems, like me for eg. and how the system has abandoned me to an abusive household and now that I'm telling them "I'm both psychologically and physically incapable of getting out of this on my own, I need help" and they're telling me "you don't need it enough" even though they've never seen me or spoke to me, or gave a fair assessment, instead reviewing records that were irrelevant to my case.. people who need protection but can't get it, we can try to speak out and make changes, to spread awareness, but if more vets did it for themselves, I feel the impact would be greater. I think this show does a pretty good job showing the candid reality of soliders' dissolutionment and the psychological aftereffects (from my perspective as someone who's never been a soldier, but did a field study interview with a whole building of veterans, and my grandpa was in the Army during the Vietnam War) I've never really been super interested in this side of war, like the soldiers and warriors psychology and culture stuff, I really only picked to interview the American Legion vets because it was an easy access topic where I had no time between work and school to do field studies, but this show is awakening in me a whole new interest lol
Chels
2025-07-12 21:34:50 +0000 UTC
