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Originally posted by DeltAlum
LXAAlum,
Be my guest! I'm really weary of people who haven't had enough life experience to understand how it works.
I wish the hell I didn't feel compelled to comment on these kinds of things, but I think it's these attitudes and misunderstandings that will kill the fraternity system in the long run if they don't wake up.
Finally, you're absolutely right about having some fun and doing some dumb things. But times were a whole lot different then, as you allude, and the harsh spotlight of reality wasn't hitting us right in the face.
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I also think the concept of "one-upsmanship" plays into the having fun and doing dumb things - the legacy we created for greeks today. They hear of some of the fun things that used to be done, that in actually were for the most part harmless fun, just absent common sense, that the members of today feel they need to do "one better" than we did. The problem is we mostly went right up to the line, but there's no space left but to cross over the line today to get that "we can do it even better" satisfaction. The goal is to always be better, it's just that the definition of "better" is shifting. (Better does not neccessarily mean "bigger" or "more spectacular" these days).
Like I said, the time will come for a complete paradigm shift (as greeks have had to do many times in the past, almost always successfully I might add), or to fade away into insignificance, obscurity, and extinction.
