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another way: i think that showing these clips would dissuade potential copycats simply because the kid was in the main incoherent, and showing the material functions to strip away whatever glamour one could possibly associate with this action. like i said, there is no way to say that everything cho reacted to was simply spun out of his head, at the same time the obviously pathological way in whcih he interpreted those elements seem to me to deflate any political significance he might have imputed to his own actions.
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Roachboy, I agree with much of what you said so perhaps one of our differences is how we view the potential "wannabe" or the "copycat." I would argue that those that would be attracted by Cho's act are no longer relating to their world of upper middle class America, in a rational fashion. In this case, my thinking rests with an individual's irrational response to the cultural environment. Simply stated, it would not matter that Cho was logically incoherent to that specific group of people.
I believe you have extended the argument to other world cultures and circumstances, wherein the individual is making a rational response to an irrational environment. Am I close to the distinctions we are making? You express your thoughts far better that I do, and I continue to stumble my way toward clarity.
PS: Should I be concerned that I found coherence in Cho's diatribe?
