BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) – Long before he boiled over, Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui was pushed around and laughed at as a schoolboy in suburban Washington because of his shyness and the strange, mumbly way he talked, former classmates say.

He was probably tormented from the time he got here.

In short, as Allan Axelrad demonstrated at length in History and Utopia, his book-length study of Cooper’s world view, Cooper seems obsessed with the idea that human success inevitably brings about its own destruction.

And that is exactly what I think Cho was getting at.

It is so obvious the message is that he is the product of our own excess. He is saying that this happened because of our own cultural weakness. That is consistent with his message in the videos and in his writing. HE himself was “Ishmael’s Ax” … he was a personification of that ax. He himself was American culture destroying itself. He sent that stuff to the NBC news office to allow that destruction to continue after his death. It has nothing at all to do with Islam or religion at all. It has everything to do with a very angry young man who wanted to create as much destruction as he possibly could. His message is that our culture is sending us on the path to destruction. NBC playing those videos was his “proof”. He knew they wouldn’t be able to resist playing them. He also has a pretty good idea that the showing of them will cause follow on murders. He thinks he is a spark and the media will fan the flame and our culture itself is the fuel that will feed that flame.

Read this analysis if the Cooper work. This was written long before this act.

Anyone who is even remotely associating this act with Islamist fascism is simply attempting to twist things into their pre-determined view. Just like people who attempt to twist things in the Litvinenko case to justify their pre-determined conclusion that he was assassinated by Putin.

The kid was insane. He would grab at whatever reference he possibly could to “justify” his actions. But the Ax of Ishmael is to me an extremely clear reference to Cooper’s work.

To try to trace this is trying to delve into the mind of a non functional individual.

My TV is locked onto the cartoon network, so I didn’t see the vids that were placed out there.

Did he expand or explain the reference that was so important to him?

I ain’t got a clue since I didn’t watch it.

I am giving up on this subject simply because I am not following it and further comment by me will be non informed and less than useless.

Oh and I am not trying in any way to kick the can.

It appears Mac may have another thread in the mystery of what caused Cho to do what he did. It appears Cho may have wanted to be a movie star.

Cho copied movie killings

http://www.macsmind.com/wordpress/2007/04/19/cho-copied-movie-killings/