How did I not know Arol Wulf-Zendik died last June and the Zendik cult has utterly disbanded? Did they just keep it super quiet?
Anyway here's my eulogy, Arol: fuck me but you were a wretched human being. You were a bully and a creep and you hurt a lot of people, me included.
I met you once and you seemed distracted but pleasant enough, but there was something really wrong with how much power you had over all those poor stupid eco-hippy girls. You put them all on 1600 calorie diets, for fuck's sake, and they didn't beat your head in with a jar of peanut butter.
I'll never forget the day I was sent to detail your personal car with a bowl of vinegar and a sponge. We spent our days doing chores and being told that this was the only 'art' we should do, clearing the way for the higher order members to focus completely on their creative projects. I remember how you ritualistically humiliated people in public as a power display, and no one ever stood up to you, because they were afraid they'd be next. I remember how all the kids seemed to belong directly to you, no matter who their real parents were.
I remember the girl with the burned foot, and how no one would take her to the hospital. I remember how they 'debrided' the wound with kitchen scrubbies and she had to go through a half-hour argument to get someone who had enough status to drive one of the dozen cars into town to get her fresh bandages, because no one felt like it. I remember giving her the sterile gauze from my first aid kit and how she freaked out when I made a joke about her limp because she was scared everyone would start calling her a humiliating nickname based on it.
Did your cancer come back? I bet you had great medical care when you got sick, didn't you?
I wonder how many of your victims are secretly feeling bad about themselves because they can't make themselves mind overmuch that you're dead. I'm sure they think they're bad people because they can't admit to themselves the honest truth that sometimes one key motherfucker in power dying makes life better for a whole lot of little people, and you know what, that's okay.
Wherever you are right now, I hope it's warm.
