Depending on your class background and your present class position, the mass killing at Virginia Tech University, will mean different things to you.There is the Upper Class view and there is the middle and lower classes outlook of the same issue. There is never a single homogeneous take on an issue without it being influenced by the status of our background and our aspirations.
The economic success of our America has embolden the ideology ( concepts and principles) of the Upper class to dominate the way we perceive people, things (both material and spiritual), truth and facts. Our method of analysis, and who, we intended to serve with such analysis is different today, than when the dominant middle class ideology was our basic guide.
Killer Cho Seung Hui , in 21st century America , as a student in a well known University, could not find a friend or groups of common minded aspirants to help fashion or redirect his outlook and analysis that will help mold a better social relationship within his environment.
The crude philosophy of individualism and selfishness perpetuated by the Conservative Upper class teachings and examples has destroyed our society's desire for The Collective, as a means or mechanisms for resolving and understanding issues facing us. Killer Cho was a very lonely person, but a potential social activist, without the Love of a group. Without the reach- out care of his "village" of peers, he could not bounce off his thoughts on someone that cared to listen so he could correctly reshape his social analysis.
In the not so long ago, Era of the middle class dominant ideology, we admittedly were not as prosperous as we are today, but the society and its population, those without hatred and bigotry, was in love with each other. The principle of , 'it takes a village to raise a child ' applied to everyone, everywhere, around the world.
In such a situation, as an individual , with his lonely eyes, someone would have reached out and befriend Cho Seung Hui. Some loving sexy woman would have been attracted to his seething anger and with great kindness , sex and companionship,may have helped diffuse the time bomb in his head.
The principle of' ONE LOVE' would have applied to everyone on that campus of VT , if the the middle class and their anti -poverty, anti -deprivation ideology was still the dominant way we looked at things. In such an environment Killer Cho, would have found himself attracted to social groups discussing social and political issues and at the sametime mobilising with his peers for positive action. So instead of him degenerating into a monster with a catastrophoric impact, in a middle class political and social environment, we might have helped fashion him into a positive social activist.
This social creation by the dominant Upper class Conservative ideological environment, is seen everyday at all levels . The Upper class will never take responsibilty for the social disaster it has harvested. But will claim that to be rich you need ice cold individualism and steely selfishness to become a billionaire. This is the principle the students are taught , today ,at the highest levels of our educational instsitutions.
Therefore if we are going to maintain a corrupt ideology and its icons in the White house and in the Congress we have to expect the products from this kind of environment to come and bite US in the Ass, frequently . |