Social Analysis: What Cho Seung-Hui Left Behind

The social mechanism of calamity is a pretty complex process that involves, among other things, The Five Stages of Grief, chaotic discontent, and political sifting. Here, I attempt to show that all parties involved, rational and working for their self-interests, actually make the situation worse. The fallout of VTech is basically like an itchy mosquito bite that causes you to scratch, worsening the wound.

This game tree shows that what is in the best interest of the Asian community is in conflict with the best interests of the media and the Fed. In other words, the best outcome for Asians is a bad outcome for government/media, and the best outcome for the government/media is a worse outcome for Asians. Thier interests are at odds with each other.
Someone has to lose and the situation is tending against Asians, as the voice of public opinion seems to be neither rational nor forgiving as you can see below. The first facebook group in the list was made by a reporter trying to collect information from Seung's classmates.




Cho Seung-Hui was described as a "guy that kept to himself", an English major that wrote morbidly dark liturature, a guy that played lots of basketball, and most of all, is asian. As society searches for causes that induced the shooting, they will look for the common violence indicators like small animal torture or self-destructive behavior. But because this shooter is ethnically unique, I predict that the evaluation will be ethnically biased.

So the million dollar question is, what is the best choice of action for Asians now?