Fearless

"Fearless" is the hip new defining and uniting quality of Oberlin students, according to some highly-paid PR guy. It's replacing the "Think one person can change the world? So do we." that is seen on posters in academic offices around the college.

The Fearless site looks like one of those Army ads targeting high school boys who like to play war video games. Apparently, the Fearless campaign also comes with a lack of regard for capitalization.

According to the website, examples of fearlessness include, but are not limited to: winning a MacArthur Genius Grant, directing a musical, having a tolerant, diverse community, and student co-ops.

This is in stark contrast to the American Heritage Dictionary definition of fearless, which is "without fear; brave."

Generally regarded as being COMPLETE bullshit.

[edit] External links

• the Fearless site
• LJ thread with comments on the launch of the above site (1 Sep 2006)
• LJ thread about a presentation given by the guy who came up with "fearless" (27 Sep 2006)
• LJ thread full of opinions on the Fearless site (14 Nov 2006)
• True fearlessness
• A creation myth on the origin of Fearless, made by two class of 2010 students for digital video production
• This picture's worth a thousand fearlesses