Many Americans tend today to believe that Sebastian Junger and his Tribe, especially the extract from the book called, War Makes You an Animal perfectly reveals the true nature of the war. Common sense seems to dictate that when it starts the horrible consequences, and many broken hearts and lives are an inevitable part of war process. Junger did a brilliant job, he perfectly portrayed how war can change the human beings and compared them to animals, those who seek another animal in order to comfort oneself that you are not the only human left on the Earth who managed to survive.War and other natural catastrophes draw the people reconsider their attitude towards life.
Junger complicates the matter further when he writes, “Social collapse is that – for a while at least- everyone is equal”( Junger, 3). By focusing on the concept of equality, the author overlooks the deeper problem of war. Basically, the main Junger’s point is that the war does not differentiate people, it does not care whether the human beings are rich or poor, whether they have families and does not have any compassion towards little children and women. The war kills rich people along with poor, and those who would manage to survive must continue their struggle till the end. It may be compared with an earthquake that destroys everything on its way.
In fact, people who are devastated by natural cataclysms or man-made disasters are reported to experience the new sense in their lives, as they are actively engaged in the cases and feel that they are doing something for society, something they could not do before.
According to Junger, “Depression rates significantly fall for both men and women during that period, with men experiencing the most extreme drop in the most violent districts” (Junger, 5). In other words, the author claims that people who had survived in wars or overcame disasters felt more content in comparison with those who lived in peaceful times and did not participate in violent wars. Men, who are by nature warriors and have those instincts “to fight in order to win” could easily throw themselves into war, as the idea of the war is to help the society by participating in it. Indeed, it is highly likely that people after all these horrible scenes should be depressed, but Belfast findings claimed that those people felt better psychologically and even took part in social and community work as well as showed involvement with the community.
All things considered, human beings or better to say the nation that shares the same values and cooperates together, for example as coalitions, will have bigger chances to defence one’s human race and win the fight in comparison to little groups, or those who fight alone. Moreover, the society will only benefit from such a cooperation, in addition, this survival connection may help people to overcome all the fears, even if they are trapped somewhere they must not give up hope or panic. This amazing coming-together connection that unites people after catastrophes, which sometimes last for a couple of minutes, can make the social evolution that can last for years or may have a temporary character. Each individual should learn the most important lesson from the war, to share everything you have, including skills with human beings that are close to you.
Works cited
Junger, Sebastian. Tribe: On Home Coming and Belonging. War Makes You An Animal.
HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. Print.
