{"id":7121,"date":"2025-05-28T15:38:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=7121"},"modified":"2025-05-25T22:42:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T03:42:33","slug":"redacted-is-the-best-fucking-frat-at-uchicago-in-a-tolstoyan-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/redacted-is-the-best-fucking-frat-at-uchicago-in-a-tolstoyan-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"[Redacted] is the Best Fucking Frat at UChicago, in a Tolstoyan Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note: The name of the fraternities referenced in the following op-ed have been redacted due to repeated complaints from their members.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s up, what\u2019s up. It\u2019s Boog from [Redacted]. I just want to say that [Redacted] is by far the best frat on campus. We\u2019re way better than those losers in [Redacted], those cucks in [Redacted], and especially those boners in [Redacted]. Our brotherhood is way stronger, our parties are way more lit, and our house is way nicer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you ask me, if we were characters in Leo Tolstoy\u2019s 1878 classic novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anna Karenina<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, all of those guys in the other frats would 100% be Alexei Vronsky. They\u2019re suave and handsome, sure, but deep down they\u2019re incapable of acting in anything except their own self-interest. Even in the pursuit of love they\u2019re ultimately selfish and unwilling to sacrifice. I mean, these are the type of guys to drive a horse to its needless death during a race just to impress another man\u2019s wife. They would literally court a young, beautiful woman for more than a year\u2014just to amuse themselves, of course\u2014and then lose interest in her and go off chasing somebody else. They\u2019re so fucking heinous that when they would finally attempt to make a sacrifice and settle down with the woman they love, they would do so with a tiny amount of bitterness that would slowly poison the relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The [Redacted] brothers, on the other hand? We\u2019re a bunch of fucking Konstantin Levins. We might not be the most elegant guys in the world, but we\u2019re strong enough to sacrifice for love, even when that sacrifice is enduring our pain and embarrassment for being our potential wives\u2019 second choice. More than that, each of the chillers in [Redacted] would be able to forgive their wife for the torment that her rejection caused them, thus embracing the imperfection that is love and finding meaning in life itself. The [Redacted] brothers are so fucking ferda, and by that I mean ferda understanding that love requires sacrifice and will always be imperfect, but nevertheless is the only true path to meaning in this world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peace out,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spencer \u201cBoog\u201d Bilkington III <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ask me, if we were characters in Leo Tolstoy\u2019s 1878 classic novel Anna Karenina, all of those guys in the other frats would 100% be Alexei Vronsky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2089,"featured_media":7122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7124,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121\/revisions\/7124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}