Word: rubinoff
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This thing was stronger than many a freshman Rubinoff concoction. It was a Sunday. It was also 11 AM. Maybe...
...Pregames are going full-swing by this point—with a seniors-only event going on somewhere in the house—and FlyBy’s room is no different. While FlyBy generally sticks to the finest that Mr. Rubinoff has to offer, we've decided to class it up even more this time around, splurging on some premium bubbly (re: Andre). Ok fine, there’s Rubinoff too. But you know how it goes: start wit’ straight shots, and then pop bottles...
...you’re walking back to your dorm room from Lamont, excited for a quiet and restful night off. You round the corner of Mass Ave and Plympton, and you’re suddenly confronted with a massive, buzzing cluster of pubescent high schoolers, sporting sweatshirts and toting Rubinoff-filled gatorate bottles. “Yo, man,” says the self-delcared leader, “know of any parties going on tonight?” You run off before you’re forced to respond. Welcome to prefrosh weekend. Sure, many of us dread prefrosh...
...stuff.” Why is that? He offers no reasoning, and I for one, knowing Harvard students and how they drink, would argue the contrary: faced with higher costs of drinking and less ease in obtaining beer, why not just fill a water bottle with some concoction of Rubinoff and head to the stadium? And we all know that increased liquor consumption is much more dangerous than beer consumption, for obvious reasons...
Predictably, the process is not easy. Besides the individual's own natural shiftiness, Rubinoff argues, one of the great intellectual stumbling blocks to such self-knowledge is liberal humanism, a near-religion that obscures the truth about human nature by assuming that evil is to be found not in man but in social and political institutions, and preaching that they, and indeed man himself, are perfectible through the application of discipline and reason. With the aid of this and other rationalizations, modern man tends to repress the natural knowledge of evil and of his own demonic urges. The result...