Monday Jul 28, 2025
Achilles in Vietnam
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan Shay and the connections between combat trauma and Gene Wolfe's work.
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Monday Jul 28, 2025
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan Shay and the connections between combat trauma and Gene Wolfe's work.
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7 months ago
Patrick Halston posted this, btw.
7 months ago
I bet that many of the same people who emphasize that you should believe vets when they say they are suffering from war PTSD are the same people who will prove skeptical when we say that we should believe all women. PTSD, from war, has become a fetish of the manosphere where it inflates a warrior in making their trauma a record of how much they saw and endured that ”people who sit at desks,” feminized men, never endured. I personally believe in war PTSD, but also think many people who are enthusiastic about supporting it are reluctant to look for PTSD out of earlier experiences, like parental abuse. Wolfe readers often emphasize how much Korea PTSD influenced Wolfe and his writings, but otherwise get very angry when you imply that early-life PTSD had equal or greater effect. With this PTSD, one hears of biographical fallacy, something never applied to Korea PTSD.