This is the Lita that we knew and loved!
It didn't matter who you were, it was each man for himself. Every person REALLY could grow up to be the Gadol haDor and a bigger gadol than all those before him! I just wonder what happened letztens that they deviated fro their old ways and took on the Chassidic approach of Daas Torah, etc.
Source: ישורון" ניסן תשס"ג"