Brenton
Truth about Cho Seung-hui
April 19th 2007 03:37
Why? That's the big question. Or rather, it should be.
The sad thing is, nobody really cares why. They're too busy using the situation to their political advantage, somehow constructing the massacre as evidence that gun control is unneeded (work that one out), or using it to reaffirm their own personal bias against popular culture such as computer games.
Cho Seung-hui was his name. We don't know his story.
We really couldn't care much less.
Ask the Courier Mail, with their "Good And Evil" Front page. Guess who's good? The white kid in the soldier outfit. Who's bad? The Korean with the nerdy glasses.
Cho Seung-hui. Daily Telegraph does it better. You can bet that turning him into a horror movie archtype on thei front page wasn't accidental.
We don't give a damn why he did it. That would mean thinking. That would mean questioning. That would mean suggesting something isn't right, that something about the culture, the gun laws, the attitudes, the lifestyles, the values that surrounded Cho Seung-hui weren't right. That would mean something was wrong. That would mean something needs to be fixed.
No. Too hard. Far too hard. So instead we turn it into some crappy horror movie. Cho Seung-hui is just another Jason. Just another Freddy. Patrick Bateman. He kills. Why?
Because he's evil.
He's just evil, and nothing could be done about it. Same reason terrorists attack. Same reason pedophiles attack. Same reason a mother kills her child. We don't need reasons. We don't need brains. We just need to know one thing - they're evil. Unlike us. We're good - they're evil. And let's just keep telling ourself that.
Cho Seung-hui. Why did he do it? Buggered if I know. Personal bias - just a mentally unstable individual, who couldn't be what people wanted him to be, felt too much hate and not enough love, and had access to weapons that made killing simple.
Cho Seung-hui did terrible things. But becasue he was evil? If you need an excuse, go for it. Drink that sucker down. But if you want to understand...
No. Of course you don't. How naive of me.
The sad thing is, nobody really cares why. They're too busy using the situation to their political advantage, somehow constructing the massacre as evidence that gun control is unneeded (work that one out), or using it to reaffirm their own personal bias against popular culture such as computer games.
Cho Seung-hui was his name. We don't know his story.
We really couldn't care much less.
Ask the Courier Mail, with their "Good And Evil" Front page. Guess who's good? The white kid in the soldier outfit. Who's bad? The Korean with the nerdy glasses.
Cho Seung-hui. Daily Telegraph does it better. You can bet that turning him into a horror movie archtype on thei front page wasn't accidental.
We don't give a damn why he did it. That would mean thinking. That would mean questioning. That would mean suggesting something isn't right, that something about the culture, the gun laws, the attitudes, the lifestyles, the values that surrounded Cho Seung-hui weren't right. That would mean something was wrong. That would mean something needs to be fixed.
No. Too hard. Far too hard. So instead we turn it into some crappy horror movie. Cho Seung-hui is just another Jason. Just another Freddy. Patrick Bateman. He kills. Why?
Because he's evil.
He's just evil, and nothing could be done about it. Same reason terrorists attack. Same reason pedophiles attack. Same reason a mother kills her child. We don't need reasons. We don't need brains. We just need to know one thing - they're evil. Unlike us. We're good - they're evil. And let's just keep telling ourself that.
Cho Seung-hui. Why did he do it? Buggered if I know. Personal bias - just a mentally unstable individual, who couldn't be what people wanted him to be, felt too much hate and not enough love, and had access to weapons that made killing simple.
Cho Seung-hui did terrible things. But becasue he was evil? If you need an excuse, go for it. Drink that sucker down. But if you want to understand...
No. Of course you don't. How naive of me.
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