Manifest D'oh!
May 2nd 2007 00:18
After the tragedy at Virginia Tech, the news was full of (your punchline here!) Cho Seung-Hui's so-called "manifesto." We heard his words of alienation and anguish, and developed a much higher respect for all the grunge-rock garage-band wannabes who were much better poets. We saw him posing with his guns (and of course the inevitable arguments that gun laws and/or everyone packing heat could have prevented the massacre), and generally abusing his fifteen minutes of fame.
How many essays or poems of the victims were read on the news? The news channels were obsessed with Cho, not even considering that the far more mentally stable victims may have had even more worthwhile insights into life, the human condition and man's separation from his fellow man.
I don't doubt that Cho's rantings may even be valuable to students of abnormal psychology. I do doubt the "service" to the general public to repeatedly play up his pale rationalizations for mass murder. The fact that Cho wanted this crap to be broadcast should have been reason enough for cooler heads to keep it off the air... or at least to not give the psycho killer such over-the-top posthumous notoriety that he was gunning for.
How many essays or poems of the victims were read on the news? The news channels were obsessed with Cho, not even considering that the far more mentally stable victims may have had even more worthwhile insights into life, the human condition and man's separation from his fellow man.
I don't doubt that Cho's rantings may even be valuable to students of abnormal psychology. I do doubt the "service" to the general public to repeatedly play up his pale rationalizations for mass murder. The fact that Cho wanted this crap to be broadcast should have been reason enough for cooler heads to keep it off the air... or at least to not give the psycho killer such over-the-top posthumous notoriety that he was gunning for.
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