In the common room of my halls as we speak. again no internet connection so this is in textedit again.I'm here because the cricket is on. its england against the west Indies, a meaningless match but it better than doing nothing in the flat. Still having trouble sleeping for various reasons. so those who i know who read this , if i get cranky then ignore me. Just a few more thoughts on Virginia shootings, and the media obsession with the killer Cho. I understand why the media is focusing on the personality of the guy in question, it raises ratings and gets more readers. I also can see why people want to know more about him, in attempt to understand what drives a person to commit such an act. My concern thou is the constant fixation on everything form the plays he wrote to the films he watches, his life and problems are now rite large across the Tv news banners and headlines of the world. I worry it is this that will truly inspire the next psychologically damaged teenage to pick up his gun, so he can be understood and his problems voiced. Just a thought but maybe its time to learn the lessons of this event, and how he created his media package to be sent to NBC news and maybe this should have been handed over to the correct authority and maybe she should have been denied his moment in the media spotlight because maybe we should know more about his victims and less about him
However the other side of the coin if we try to understand why he did what he did then it would be easier to spot similar issues with others
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that's a fair point which i hadn't thought of...it could well encourage more people to resort to violence to make themselves noticable..
i'm not convinced it will help us much in preventing the next case...people are just too highly variable...some people with similar problems may well be well mentally adjusted with the thought of killing someone never crossing their mind.
i think the only way to prevent cases like this is for close family, friends and acquintaces to realise what's going on early and step in and provide support or contact professionals to get the neccesary help. After all, these are the people who will have insight into the said person...I'm not at all convinced raising the general awareness of cases like this would help with future individual cases at all...
Sometimes it is impossible for anyone to pick up tendencies like this early on, simply because the person hides them so well or no one really knows them that well or cares about them, which may be part of the root of the problem...and i guess this is when the unfortunate often happens...
However i still think the only way this can be dealt with is by people who know the person involved and by the use of professionals (although the latter's effectiveness can be called into question...see Rosenhan's ledgendary fake psychiatric patient study)
so yeh...a bit of anothe tricky one..
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