Wednesday, April 18, 2007

A disturbing picture

With nearly every blog (including our own) commenting on the Virginia tech shootings, I was gonna try and keep my two cents out of it. However, I found a couple of Cho Seung-Hui’s plays posted by one of his classmates. They really paint a disturbing picture of this kid's psyche.

Suffice it to say he was a bona fide nut job. The plays seemed less like pieces of literature, and more like this kid’s diary. The first play Richard McBeef, I found especially disturbing. I suppose placing blame for this incident on this kid’s teachers is senseless; as his classmate said, there's no well known system for reporting would be sociopaths. And to tell you the truth, I don’t really know if I would have done much about it at the time; hind sight is always 20/20.

I guess the point I’m trying to make is that after this tradgedy, people may feel more compelled to do something about these types of cries for help (or whatever you want to call them) before it’s too late.