As I was watching the news at MSNBC this afternoon, the anchor kept talking about the "young Asian-American guy" who killed his girlfriend, over 30 college students and himself. She was saying something like "As college students, we all run into the weirdo student somewhere, the quiet guy, he is always acting strange, but we never know how to protect ourselves from someone like that".Book cover: Lee Wardlaw
Cuidate de las aguas mansas or Be aware of the slow current is what people say, and sometimes is truth. But for most part, weirdos happen to be the nicest humans beings that I've met. Until some thing makes them get over their limits.
One wonders, what made this guy do this? Does it life seem to be so hard sometimes? How can a person hold so much hate, so bad that wants to hurt others?
All I see now is people talking about this collective tragedy. They all say things like, young souls are gone, talented youth pursuing their educational dreams are dead. But hey, here we go again America, now it's time to mourn, to honor the fallen, to argue about what really happened. We are ready to hear politicians, journalists, talk show hosts, fellow workers and passengers, bloggers and taxi drivers talk about how fucked up is life sometimes.
We all are gonna say, money doesn't buy happiness, and this are news that are going to be around for awhile.
I hear news of immigrants hanging themselves and their children in Maryland, and children of immigrants joining gangs. I hear of Iraqi and Palestinian people dying, and Peruvian businessmen being kidnapped and killed. I see the news about Colombia's violence, or some spreading disease in Africa.
What can buy happiness then? because I know that unhappiness can buy a lot of time and coverage on the news media, here in the US and everywhere. It's the hypocrisy of our societies, we pretend to care, we all rise our voice of protest when the damage is done. But what do we do to prevent this? what the hell do we do in order to stop hate and violence?
Oh, but here are coming the churches, asking everyone to pray for the victims, holding solemn ceremonies and services, asking for forgiveness. Politicians will talk about gun control, and the security businesses must be already planning their best offers, because I can see it coming: another after 9/11 syndrome, with college students living scared and being subject to scrutiny and all kinds of security measures. No more bottles or box cutters will be allowed in classrooms. Homeland security specialists will visit college campuses everywhere and talk about how to protect yourself from the weirdos.
Yeah, it's another American tragedy, where a single individual can cause so much pain to a whole nation, and give everyone a topic for propaganda and discussion. Somewhere, in some elementary school right now, there is the weirdo kid, the one who everyone makes fun of, growing up to perhaps one day plan another Columbine or Virginia Tech craze. He or she is learning violence from every thing that is seeing, heard or felt. And that's what we don't want to see.
The kid that went histerical today at Virginia Tech, was perhaps a product of our hypocrite societies or just another mentally disabled person. Surely more tragedy can come later and we will repeat this fake round of mourning, over and over again. Useless is the pain, but necessary. Because tragedy is part of our lives, and we have to learn to face and endure this violence but never gorget that we have feelings, we need to let go or we will end up like Cho Seung-hui. It's time now to blame each other now, or to look the other way, while we post photos of the victims in the news channels, with some lame sad music in the background.
My condolences to those who lost a loved one today, in Virginia or Baghdad, in Lima or New Delhi. I am very sorry. And to the weirdo Korean guy: brother you fucked up, where were you yesterday so I could give you a hug?Cho Seung-hui. Photo by SunHerald.com
Good night for now, tomorrow is another day.
VIDEO: FREE HUGS
(3:39 minutes) Go ahead and hug a weirdo today.
in english? oh, dear, bloody language, i can't believe it from you!!
ReplyDeleteRoberto, hear me crying in Spanish too:
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Tienes mucha razón en lo que dices, creo que este tipo de personas no es más que el resultado de nuestras sociedades cada vez más descompuestas, más deshumanas, chicos que tienen rencor guardado de toda la vida y que de alguna manera lo expresan, desafortunadamente ese rencor le costo muy caro a la misma sociedad que lo creo en fin muchos saludos y mi más sincero pesame :(
ReplyDeleteThank you Gerardo for your words, I share your opinion. What are we doing today, to prevent this violence for tomorrow?
ReplyDeleteHola Carlos, gracias por la visita. Me gustó mucho tu artículo; estoy de acuerdo en que tanta violencia, o es patología oresultado del infierno en que se ha convertido la sociedad moderna. ¿Qué estoy haciendo hoy para prevenir otras tragedias? Darle amor, comprensión y atención personalizada a cada uno de mis chicos. Nuestra juventud es mendiga de amor; el hombre moderno, y especialmente la juventud está muy sola. Estamos en una ciudad llena de gente, pero estamos solos; estamos enfermo de un indiviudalismo y materialismo corrupto, que no nos deja darnos cuenta de que sólo somos una pequeña partícula de un todo mayor; y que ese todo sólo puede cambiar de rumbo si cada uno de nosotros toma consciencia de la necesidad del cambio, y hace algo. Yo por mi parte, hago lo que puedo, quejarme, acusar -como dices- y dar mucho amor y atención a mis estudiantes.
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