subversive school spirit

for my two to three blog readers who want a break from my political diatribes, this is for you (well, more for me than for you, but you get the drift).

as the UAAP season comes around, i distinctly notice the intense rivalry between the blue & the green dudes. of course, being from the great state university, we always like to think we're above such trifle details. truth be told though, it's because our basketball team always loses.... i even get surprised whenever we'd won a game! we can win at cheering, track, piko, or what-not, but because we live in a basketball-centric society, not having a fighting chance for the fighting maroons is just plain sad. coupled with the fact that we're supposed to be one of the top universities who can't even eke out a good basketball team, we just let the UAAP season pass us by...

in addition, people have noticed that there's a sense of "elitism" among iskos, that if you don't come from the state u, you don't belong in that intellectual circle. why must we always have to assert to ourselves that we are the smartest humans around? i thought about this and came up with this generalized (disclaimer!) analysis:

the blue dudes have their smarts, their riches, and their assertiveness, so they don't need to prove anything.

the green dudes have their sports, their riches, and their connections, so they also don't need to prove anything.

us from the state u have the smarts which we can't really express that well verbally. plus the fact that most of us don't have the second factor that the blue & green dudes have in common....

so does our sense of elitism stem from our insecurities, since our smarts is all what we have, and that's it? that's just plain sad too...

let's see how the flames look like! he3x! :P