re: Another pointless hazing death, in today's issue of "Greek life is stupid."

Male societies are probably as old as time - and so is hazing. It brings people together.


Peter Pan syndrome is a real problem in the west.

We have young men, even men into their forties, who never grew up - never learned how to be a man.

They don't know how to take care of themselves, but they don't know how to take care of other people either, and they don't understand that they have responsibilities to the people around them.

They're islands of child like selfishness.

The man-child is a modern phenomenon that started to emerge in the 1940s. And it happened about the same time, that the rituals of manhood were killed off, and the societies that taught boys how to be men, were stamped out.

If you look back at what native tribes did in America, you can see a good example of these pathways worked.

When a boy reached a certain age, he was separated from his mother, and received the basic training needed to be a functioning adult member of the tribe, and then he went through a harrowing, a ceremony that tested his capacity to endure.

This ceremony had a spiritual element, may have included hallucegenic drugs, but most importantly, it was held by the men, and it marked the end of childhood, and his entrance into manhood.

Almost all of that is gone now in our culture.

The church is dead, the military thoroughly corrupted, institutions like the Boy Scouts, they're on their way out.

Fraternities still exist, and if you're lucky, provide you with hardship and bonding. But those opportunities are rarer and rarer now, as universities crack down on them.

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There are so many ways to get involved on campus besides Greek life

It’s an antiquated, stupid system.

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Then don't do it?

I don't get it. If you don't want to do it, don't do it. No need to tear it down for others who might like to get involved with it.

This is a situation of an off-campus house and no official hazing for fraternity rituals. The dude died from drinking too much and choking on his own vomit likely, it happens in colleges more often than people realize, it just grabs headlines when the guy is in a fraternity.