I checked out your link - did you read much of that stuff?!?!
I think you’ve found the key to this whole thing! Here’s another link:
http://www.friendsofishmael.org/about/why_ishmael.shtml
This is an organization of real far lefties; they are seeking non-conventional methods for ‘changing the world’.
An Excerpt:
“On page 5 of Ishmael, Quinn’s narrator explains why he could never quite accept the idea that all there is to life is to “get a job, make some money, work till you’re sixty, then move to Florida and die.” A lot of us have a hard time with that concept, even feeling that somewhere someone has lied to us about a few things, though we can never put a finger on just what. We instinctively feel that there must be something more than this, yet day in and day out we trudge off to take our part in this story. How else are we going to put food on the table and pay the bills? If we work hard enough, we tell ourselves, perhaps one day we can be one of the rich and famous.....
more:
“Because of the way that it explains the root of so many of our current problems, Ishmael has influenced people in an unbelievable spectrum of areas. As mentioned, it has inspired the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Pearl Jam, Hollywood producers and CEO’s. But it is also influencing everyday folks like doctors and teachers throughout the world. Visit the Ishmael in Action section to learn more about the incredible diversity of people being changed by what they learned from Daniel Quinn...”
The VT massacre is truly the fruit of liberal brainwashing.