We talked about the human nature when we discussed what Captain Werz said when he came to Pond Bluff. Why would people bring picnic baskets, ride trains, buy tickets to see the prisoners of war at Andersonville? What is it about human nature that could make someone so interested in something so vile? Were they excited to see humans suffering, humans who fought against their side of the war suffering, or was it just like a train wreck--they couldn't look away? What are your thoughts?
I think that is kind of like a train wreck when you can't look away. I think that it is a possibility that everybody was interested in something that you really want to know about it. If I was to be in the time where soldiers were gonna be at Andersonville, I would go. I would go because I want to see heros, brave, strong, & restless heros....
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I believe that the people who did take their picnic baskets to the prison camps were just doing something that in their human nature. Also i believe that they were just doing it to do any thing that others were doing such as a mob. When someone else does some thing they usual some what pass on "their ways." So when the confederates took their daily picnic to the camps they did it just like we would stop to stare at a car wreck. We would sit there and do nothing waiting for somebody to do something. But no one ever does. Like it says in numbering all the bones " all it takes for evil to exist is for good men to sit their and do nothing."
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Even though we TOTALLY discussed this in class already, I think that it can be summed up in two rather simple words...interest, and mob mentality.
ReplyDeleteAs far as Interest goes, Seeing new people, hundreds, even thousands of them in such an alien situation, must have been completely captivating. Then with mob mentality, i think that it's not too unusual for the people of both the north and the south to get so riled up with the war, and so incredibly caught up in sectionalism that they would forget that these enemies, these slave owners and yankees, were people all the same.
I believe that they watched the way they did because these people represented their enemies from the North. It also might have to do with the "trainwreck" thing, where they find it hard to look away. I'm not really sure why though. I don't think it's an issue of human nature, I think it's an issue of human psyche; and I'm not even sure it's an issue. They relished in their enemies suffering, which might seem cruel, but makes sense. 017
ReplyDeletewell me personally i don't think they were ashamed at all about how they made the prisoners feel. I think its kinda like the hitler problem, they follow to fit in. to be the same as every one els. I think some people get off on the fact that people get hurt and it helps them deal with there problems. I also believe that some people wanted to see how things went more that they were curious, then happy about the matter, I do feel like this was a stupied situation that they made other people like them have to suffer. like how are they any different them themselfs. If i was to go see the prison i would stand up and say something weather or not i was putting my life on the line. this was so horrible it makes me sad juts to even think about how people could be so self centered and only think of themself and how they're so more important juts because of there skin color. Its wasn't fare fir them, it still isn't.
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The way I see it is like movies. People like gory and grotesque movies because they either A) Like to be scared or B) Like the adrenalin rush. I think that people back then got the same affect from watching battles. As for the ladies who mocked the prisoners by throwing bread in the "Dead zone" that was just wrong. They were probably the kind of people who referred to slaves as animals. They were making the people sound like circus animals. As a way of entertainment.
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