Stuff White People Like: Providing Victims for Terrorism
30th November 2008
Alan Scherr was an art professor with a comfortable life in the Maryland suburbs, but he spent 25 years studying Transcendental Meditation in a quest for something more. The search took him and his family to Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, where they shed their old life in Silver Spring and meditated in the complex of a New Age mystic.
So you know he’ll come to a bad end. If you saw this in a movie you would think, “Sheesh, what a hackneyed cliché.” And you’d be right.
As they mourned the deaths, family and friends struggled to comprehend how a man defined by his quiet spirituality had met such a violent end — along with the daughter who was raised in part by monks in the family-like atmosphere of the rural Synchronicity compound, 30 miles from Charlottesville.
Hint: There are evil people in the world, evil people who don’t give a shit about your search for peace.
Naomi, a high-achieving student who was home-schooled at the compound and planned to attend boarding school in New York next fall, was shot next, Lang said. “It’s hard for me to imagine the rationale for shooting a 13-year-old girl in the back of the head,” he added. “Naomi was the sweetest, loveliest, most innocent young girl.”
You don’t need to imagine it — just accept that there are others who do, who will gladly do it to you if given the chance.
Master Charles remains in India, where he escaped the attacks by spending 45 hours locked in his hotel room.
And that’s their response. if you close your eyes hard enough, you’ll become invisible.
And let’s not forget their enablers, people who write articles like this for the Washington Post.