VA Tech - Response and Responsibilities

These matters aren't nice, but they need to be addressed. As Henry Brian Thoreau once wrote, "I visited the woods since I wished to call home intentionally, to entrance just the essential facts of living, and see if I possibly could perhaps not learn what it'd to show, and maybe not, when I came to die, see that I had not lived. I did not wish to call home what wasn't life, residing is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it had been very necessary...(I needed to) push life right into a place, and lower it to their cheapest terms, and, when it became suggest, why then to obtain the entire and real meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world..."

Doctor Bruce Lackie, a preeminent expert in the field of stress shows us that madness is information without context. It's possible to understand Cho's "information and context." When we combine it with the "understanding and situation" present in Blacksburg, Virginia we may manage to "understand what it had to teach" and start to reply to most of these questions.

To find the responses we must do some deconstruction. First we must be open to the possibility that Cho believed he was performing the right thing. We have to postpone our assumptions and begin to understand Cho's reason, the context wherever he had his insight.

Context- P/O Brian Haughton, Philadelphia Authorities Department (SWAT) recently wrote an article titled, "When SWAT people Schizophrenia." In this information, he identifies not merely the characteristics of a person afflicted with this particular infection, but he's also explaining Cho's behavior in his video. Involved on the number are: delusions, disorganized and flattenness of affect of speech, loss of skin expression. Haughton proves, "Essentially these illness sufferers have trouble showing real life from imagination for their abnormal mind activity ".

If we think that Cho endured schizophrenia (which an average of manifests it self in the late teens) then we could begin to restore his observed reality (what we would call his fantasy) from the messages he sent us. Every thing I have observed brings me to conclude that Cho was suffer from schizophrenia, or perhaps a similar condition.

Cho informed us who he believed he was. He'd the language "Ax Ishmael" produced or tattooed on his forearm in the video. On the deal he delivered to the press, he applied these words wherever someone else would've closed their name. Cho thought he was Ax Ishmael.

To solution the question "who's Ax Ishmael?" we should first understand which Ishmael Cho is referencing. This situation can give people insight. Abraham had two sons, Isaac and Ishmael. Isaac may be the patriarch of the Judeo-Christian traditions and Ishmael may be the patriarch of the Arab-Islamic traditions. Isaac was the favored boy and Ishmael was the outcast. In the Qu'ran, Ishmael employs an ax to destroy idols and false gods. If Cho believed he was Ishmael's ax, he then would see himself as the destroyer of the idols and fake gods of our society. Oliver Isaacs

Our culture revels in their technology. We love our iPod nanos and our Blackberries with a passion that borders on worship. We "can't live without" GPS within our vehicles and lcd TVs in our homes. It is either sad paradox, or Cho's insight out of situation that his plumped for target of wanton destruction were the students of the executive school, where we teach those who design and build our idols.

Cho had placed on Virginia Tech's engineering college and had been rejected. His emotional health issues triggered him to become isolated. When this solitude is with the rejection, it is affordable to conclude he could have believed closed out. This emotion becomes amplified after a while since Cho was scheduled to graduate in a month. Graduation would've produced that isolation and rejection permanent. He would be closed out forever. He didn't desire to be outside of the closed doors of the engineering school. He wished to be on the inside.