Today in class we touched slightly upon September 11th, The Holocaust, and other traumatic events that surrounded WWII; we talked about the latent period that was describe in Caruth's first chapter and whether or not it is better to have a collective identity or and individual identity as a provider of testimony and trauma as discussed in Orly Lubin's Holocaust Testimony. But are we [Americans] really understanding what is occuring, or have we become so used to violoence in the world that we are only "traumatized" when the media dictates we are allowed to feel traumatized?
The idea floated around in class that "they", and "the man" often control the way in which we preceive what is occuring around us. September 11th, to me, seemed so unreal. It was like watching an episode of 24, or watching the movie Sum of All Fears. This "unrealness" strikes me as such and 'Aw' affect. Even after seeing ground zero it is still hard for me to imagine that this event even occured. I wondered today during the discussion if what we experianced with 9/11 was a latent stage of experiancing trauma, or whether it was us Americans just being desenitized to violence?
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