April 19, 2007
A BRIEF NOTE
I have very little to say about the killings at Virginia Tech. It's the sort of horrible occurence that does not bear attention very well. Excessive bathos and disturbing inquisitiveness about the macabre details of events seem to be a pathology of our times. We want to feel tragically sad, but we want to see the brutal fucking details as to what caused that sympathetic sadness, while affected families are experiencing actual grief. It's a sick, schizophrenic, have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too society we live in.
I'm frankly disgusted. Less disgusted with the VT murderer and more with the media for deliberately distributing the A/V propaganda of a killer, thus propelling a self-involved loser into a recognizable figure sure to propel copycats hoping for the same level of recognition. And this is how a new generation of disturbed kids reach out for the outsized recognition they sorely lack and inflicting damage they feel is proportionate in their feeble adolescent brains [sorry adolescent readers, you really will understand later, trust me.] That jackass idiot is dead, of course; no one wants to live up to his greatest achievement when it turns out to be one of pure malice, hurt, and cowardice.
If you're interested in seeing some of the victims of a disturbed pathetic loser, see here. These are some of the valuable individuals that hoped to contribute something to the world.
(I am fully aware that someone in all this was mentally disturbed. That is really horrible for him. It earns him a few iotas of mention in this post, in the third person.)
Tagged: media, murder, virginia techPosted by Lexiphane at April 19, 2007 10:28 PM
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