aloha nico.

A Sorority / Tumblarity Parable.

Tumblarity (both in name and conceptually) reminds me of something my former sorority president would’ve done to try to convince us to fight even more against each other to win over some type of house chair position.

She never understood that pitting people against each other in some type of lame popularity contest isn’t the way to foster community and growth.

We would have naturally aspired to contribute to the best of our personal interest and ambition if she just would have BACKED OFF and stopped trying to convince us that our success is determined by one-upping each other.

But instead she created labels and contests and ranked us against each other on some retarded leaderboard with scores and gold stars and in return we all just stopped giving a fuck.

(via mascarah)

Replace president with social chair, and I completely agree. Our social and recruitment chairs were always convinced that they had more power than they actually did and were regular proponents of such divisive techniques.

Source: mascarah