Transcript:
Hello.
This will be my reaction podcast for lectures.
5.1, 5.2.
The first thing I personally want to talk about because it wasn't touched upon that much during the lecture, I think it was just briefly brought up was Israel's creation.
And the fact I didn't know this is why I wanted because I thought it was like, it kind of seemed like just a fun fact because it was just kind of briefly, you know, discussed.
But Israel was created after World War II for Jewish people who still identified as Jewish and German to go and have a place to stay because the survivors felt like they had nowhere to go.
And it was created just for them.
And the fact that it was also bombed or, you know, attacked on its first day of being created was so mind boggling to me.
And just to even reflect now on its current state is even more mind boggling because it's just like, wow, like they.
I don't think they've caught in a break.
Like I'm sure, like if I do any research from its creation to now, like there is no breaks of where the people are living.
And it honestly feels safe like after, like the.
It's honestly just been a place where you get sent there or you live there and you're just in constant fear and fight or flight of whether you're going to survive or not.
Or back to World War II, it kind of was defined or World War II defined in the 1940s as it affected politics, technology, economies, sciences and everyday life around the globe.
Even like the countries that weren't fighting were still like directly affected by it.
Like as their supply, resources or experiments or sorry, experienced major economic distributions because of the war.
I know World War II was like, like the pinnacle of like, okay, like we need to chill out.
But another thing that was brought up was how
To Japan in which Hiroshima and the Nakasaki.
Sorry if I said that wrong.
it kind of was like, hey, like we.
Or the America was like, hey, we're the big dogs here.
You know, I'm saying we are not to be messed with and if you mess with us, like, this is what's gonna happen.
That kind of to me was demonstrating their dominance obviously.
But also the fact that it set a tone where it's like, okay, these nuclear weapons that we are should not be used at all in any way, shape or form because of how much just destruction they caused just by, you know, existing.
Even in this, like, time period of the war, you would think stuff would calm down and people were like, okay, we need to, you know, work together to survive this, especially like the citizens.
But the professor brings up how even in this time of war, there were still major societal barriers, such as, like, racism or stuff like that, where people still were drinking out of separate water fountains, separate bathrooms, most likely still separate schools for white and black people.
Which just like, goes to show how much like these ideologies hold up.
Even in times of dire situations where segregation and colonialism, racism still exist.
In these times of like, frightening and scary times, it's just like, mind boggling and like, scary to think about considering the Black Lives Matter movement that happened during 2020..
Another thing that I want to discuss is the.
the Bits Zurig Blitzkrieg.
It's just something I'd written down.
But Blitzkarreg or what it's naturally is.
Is just that it's a sneak attack that Germany's military use as a strategy.
You know, they would just plan out their attacks and find like, the weak points or where they're holding out their strongest utilities and bomb them before they're even off the lot of the land.
So making their later invasions way more easier because they've already taken out half of their defense because they weren't prepared for no attacks at the time of when they were still preparing.
To me, that just kind of seems like, not like a scared move.
Obviously it's tactical and strategical, but it's just like.
I mean, I guess there is no, like, set time.
I was like, okay, this day we're gonna meet at this spot in battle.
It's just kind of like, when it comes, it comes.
But to me, it's just kind of like, okay, like, I feel like, I don't know, maybe that is just a strategy.
I'm just trying to like, justify it or like, not justify it.
Sorry, but like, want to be like, oh, like, that's just a scaredy cat move.
But it's.
It's really not, I'm saying like, to surprise attack, obviously where I'm from, you know, surprise attacking or jumping somebody would like, is like, very much like, you know, you automatically lose if you've done that.
Like, you're.
It's supposed to be like, okay, we do this, that, and the third, and then we get To a point where like, okay, we're here, we know what we're doing, and we're meeting at this time and location, like, you know what I'm saying?
But I guess in something like this, it's especially to this largeness, it's not really something I guess you really look into.
And then the story we're now following with Hera and her grandmother is honestly kind of like warming in a sense because, you know, we have like these dark thoughts of the 1940s.
But because of the professor's grandmother, we get to see like what kind of citizens were going through at this time, you know what I'm saying?
That some of them did find their escape room rather that were just partying or falling in love and having children that was kind of like still like existing during this time.
And the fact that to me, even though the professor shed some like darkness around it, where it's like, okay, like she was doing this, but like it could have been trauma that held them back this down.
Third, I feel like it just shows that even during like these darkest times, humanity still finds the light in every situation, which to me I kind of find beautiful, you know what I'm saying?
Like, that, you know, no matter what goes on, there will still be people who are willing to, you know, just ignore it just for a second and just live life like how I feel like we're supposed to be living it, you know, to its fullest extent and living in the present moment and not worrying about these abnormal stressors per se.
Even after the World War had ended.
It just goes to show like how much like large events like these or even in personal life, like people cannot catch breaks.
Like how one of the professor's grandparents, grand uncles.
Sorry, I don't really know.
A lot of names are thrown around this one.
Sorry.
But was very depressed after break, after breakup and took his own life.
And even after that they had another, I think Hadass husband.
Sorry.
There was just a lot going on after serving in a war or no, sorry, an event, sorry.
That happened in 1939 and then in the Germany's prosper of creating Israel and all that.
And like the fights that went on before that.
He was barely like sociologically like damaged that he was just no longer in a state where, you know, he is a normal person.
That's what I was grasping.
Or not a normal person, because I don't like to use that term, but just not in the right state of mind anymore.
But to me that just goes to show, like, no matter what like even if you think the danger is over, there is still much, much like more in life that you will have to go through such as los somebody or even having to deal with psychological problems from a family member for the rest of your life.
For me, and just kind of relating it to my own life, my uncle, my uncle Michael, when he was very, very young, had.
Was sent to juvenile prison and they tried to control his behavior and so they cut apart out of his brain.
And now he's dealing with major schizophrenia every single day.
It's just something my grandma has to deal with because she doesn't want to put him in no home or anything.
And she just doesn't feel right doing any of that.
So ever since like he got out of prison or juvenile, I think it was sometime when he was 20, 21, 22, he's had that for like since he's got out.
And for the rest of his life he'll have that.
And so even after my grandma will pass, it was someone else will have to take care of him.
But that's just something, you know, like, even during those hard times of like her son being, I guess, you know, a bad kid per se, even though I've heard the stories and he wasn't such a bad kid.
He was just kind of in the wrong position that put him in the juvenile detention.
He still.
They now have to deal with the consequences of him or with him for the rest of their life.
Sorry, I'm just going in circles.
But yeah, there's something he will have to deal with for the rest of his life or her life, their life.
And lastly, the last thing I do want to touch on is the survivor's guilt that the professor has for the families that got on the the train instead of her family.
I feel like that just goes to show like the.
I forgot the terminology, but it's like the generational trauma per se that just carries on like no matter what.
Like the past generations, like, or the future generations will always have like these feelings or like these things that the past gener went through.
Even if it is just told through stories, they still have this trauma or feelings that they have towards certain situations because of something maybe they haven't went through, but something they've heard and they're like, that just wasn't right and it just has to be the way it is because this is how it is.
But yes,.
