In this episode, we discuss the difference between alpha and beta knights and how to balance the two. We also talk about the joys of being a parent and how important it is to be a good provider for your kids.
00:10:36.280If they lack the natural ability to draw knights to them, i.e. they are able to prove themselves as good leaders, then they become what in the alpha beta system is called a sigma male.
00:11:11.160Whatever the case may be, they didn't draw the knights to them.
00:11:14.500Because knights, typically, you know, you're going to have 80 knights for every one king, right?
00:11:19.740Like, they do not – so when a person has the personality profile of a king but is not deserving of following, they become what is called a stigma male, which is a king that just refuses to submit to anyone else.
00:11:34.000And we can talk about the negative consequences of that in a second.
00:11:36.580So the two philosophies here are consequentialism believes that the consequences of your decisions or actions judge the morality of those actions.
00:11:48.320So if I order troops to war and all those troops die, it doesn't matter how just it was that I decided to send them to war.
00:11:58.120It doesn't matter how much I was following the rules of my position when I sent them to war, what I did with evil and feckless and pointless.
00:12:05.220Because as a leader, I was expected to win that war.
00:12:09.960And I don't get to make excuses as to say, but I followed the rules or I did what was honorable.
00:12:17.040As a leader, if I antagonize another tribe because I decide to follow the rules of honor and that leads to a war between our two tribes, I am responsible for all of those deaths.
00:12:30.060It does not matter that I acted according to the rules of honor or the rules of my culture or the rules of society.
00:12:39.200I can think logically this was the best outcome.
00:12:41.860If I fail in my logical interpretation, I must take responsibility for that failure.
00:12:48.940I can't say what I was doing was, after all, I was trying to do what was right.
00:12:55.080I didn't know it would end up terribly, right?
00:12:59.200Knights must have the exact opposite perspective.
00:13:02.620If a knight is a consequentialist, then they ignore their leader flippantly based on untotal information.
00:13:10.280They don't have a total view of the picture of the world.
00:13:12.900They don't have all of the information that their leader has.
00:13:15.520And so they may act in a way that is unpredictable that makes them a very ineffective knight because when the leader is making a decision, when the king is making a decision, and he aligns the knights on the battlefield in a certain way, and a few knights decide, I know better, they can end up dooming all of their brothers in arms for thinking that they know better.
00:13:37.240And this is a really, really big problem.
00:13:43.900They must say, look, I follow the rules because following the rules is in itself a just thing to do.
00:13:50.580But these are two completely different personality optimization profiles.
00:13:56.180And they cluster within different communities, and they can cause different problems.
00:14:02.500So one of the problems you get was knight communities.
00:14:04.920So one of the most common knight communities, a cultural group that I think over, I won't say over-cultivate knights, but it has a lot of knights, like it really does a good job of producing good knights, is the Catholic cultural group.
00:14:17.820And this is part of why, one of the things we constantly mention is Catholic immigrant groups to the U.S. are the most likely immigrant groups to form large organized crime organizations.
00:14:27.720You know, whether it's the Irish mob or the Italian mafia or the Hispanic groups you have right now, and then other groups that use similar knight-like structures, like the Orthodox, where they have this deferral to authority strategy for determining what's true.
00:14:41.660They also form large organized crime syndicates like the Russian mob and stuff like that.
00:14:45.900So the question is, is why do you see this?
00:14:47.920It's because you have this one deferral to authority mindset within the masculine population of the community, but then the leaders are also born knights, which means that they have sort of an honor code in terms of how they interact with the world.
00:15:05.700But they also believe that they're in the position of a king, which causes them to, one, ignore the rules of the land much more readily, and two, get into conflict with anyone else who's in this localized king or leadership position, but is really a knight.
00:15:59.400And these individuals then often go to the outskirts of society.
00:16:04.300So it was in our modern day world that might be something like working in a fire watch or going and living in the woods and, you know, securing a little bunker in hopes that you get an apocalypse.
00:16:15.180And then you could exercise your kingly abilities.
00:16:19.520Yeah, but historically what it means is population clusters that overproduce kings have usually been most disproportionately represented on the frontiers of society.
00:16:33.280These were the individuals who, if they were in New York or Boston during the frontier period and they couldn't acquire a group of followers and stuff like that,
00:16:41.240they'd just say, screw it, I'm going to go live on my own.
00:16:43.020And then they'd go get in a wagon and they'd go to the edge of society.
00:16:46.700And within America, there's some population clusters in America that you can find that just kept moving and kept moving and kept moving.
00:16:53.460Like it's not like one immigration wave.
00:16:55.320It's like they had to keep finding some reason to move over and over and over again.
00:16:59.520What's causing this is because this is like an ultra king population.
00:17:03.000But it also means that they're going to be much more individualist, much less likely to unite under a single leader or do anything truly meaningful in a social structure.
00:17:11.580So it's kind of like your family and my family, if I'm thinking about like past behaviors.
00:17:16.260Yeah, our family would be heavy producers of the king archetype.
00:18:04.120Like in the world of like alpha, beta, sigma and everything like that, they act like not being able to follow someone is a sign of superiority.
00:18:39.600Actually, kings are generally, like a good king is generally more effeminate than a good knight.
00:18:45.160They are generally more open to compromise.
00:18:48.980They are generally more open to like effeminate ways of acting.
00:18:53.640They are likely more, like there's many things about a good king that involves self-effacement for the good of their community, but not for the good of an individual leader.
00:19:03.260So you can see that both groups are submitting in some ways.
00:19:06.900Kings need to submit insofar as they need to efface their pride for the good of their community and they need to efface their value system for the good of their community.
00:19:17.940Well, and they are nothing without the loyalty of their community.
00:19:21.780And as soon as they lose that, they have nothing.
00:19:24.160Whereas a knight at least has a certain amount of like choice in his vote and personal agency in a way that a king kind of doesn't.
00:20:50.080These are individuals who are learned for the sake of being learned.
00:20:53.080They basically create pyramid schemes of learnedness.
00:20:55.880Or like vortexes of intellectualism that can ultimately draw a culture down and prevent it from advancing and focusing on worldly things that the culture kind of needs to stay alive, right?
00:21:15.040These are people who debate for the sake of debate, and they have forgotten that learning and education has an end purpose, which is real world industry and utility.
00:21:26.640When philosophers follow kings, they do very well because kings understand consequentialism and they live by consequentialism and they understand how their philosophers should be deployed.
00:21:36.440Yeah, kings are like, well, okay, what are we going to do about this?
00:21:38.520Okay, I'm going to take this thing that you've learned and I'm going to do this with it or we're going to change our policy as a result.
00:21:43.280Whereas in isolation, all of that high caliber thinking is just high caliber thinking.
00:21:48.500The philosophers generate the knowledge that informs the king, which guides the knights.
00:21:53.120That is a healthy cultural ecosystem, which is why multiple cultural groups can work really well together and outcompete solo cultural groups.
00:22:01.220And one of the really interesting things you have about Israel now, which we talk about in our book, is a group, the modern Jewish population, this isn't true of the ancestral Jewish population, we talk about this in the group.
00:22:09.700It was really an urban specialist group, you know, outside of Israel, something like 98% of Jews live in urban centers.
00:22:15.560And before the Holocaust, that was true as well, now need to take on urban roles, which is why you get really interesting looking Jewish urban settlements.
00:22:25.500Like the, I need to look up the names of them, but I'll put some pictures on the screen, but they look like little micro, if you've explored the settlements in Israel, they look like little micro cities and not like regular suburbs.
00:22:36.360They're incredibly dense and weird, like there'll be like little circles of community.
00:22:41.840And there's other reasons for this, like the way you choose to pray, but it's a long story here.
00:22:44.780But then the other group, and this is a producer cross community.
00:22:48.120So the mystic, mystics are generally dangerous overall.
00:22:52.400If you've seen our video on what we think of witchcraft, you can see why, but it is one of the male specializations.
00:22:58.380This is why I believe you have rates of, or one of the evolutionary factor factor, one of the evolutionary factors that has led for a selection cross culturally for schizophrenia in populations.
00:23:13.040It's that your classic mystic, the best mystic is your tribal shaman, who, whether you are, you know, a British people in the far North or in Africa, you know, all of these groups had tribal shamans.
00:23:26.540These were individuals who heard voices that communicated with the land of spirits, and then they shared this information with their community.
00:23:35.360And I'm sure they played some historic role of utilization for communities, but today I think they serve more a role of just errant information, because the information that they are gathering, while it used to, so the true role of the shaman in a community historically was to assure the loyalty of the stupidest individuals within the community,
00:23:59.720or the most susceptible to mystical hoodoo and mystical manipulation to the king, which is, they did what today, like, cults do and stuff like that, which is to say some individuals just cannot be motivated by higher order ideas,
00:24:15.500like honor and integrity, or a love of knowledge, or the love of, like, a desire to follow a just ruler.
00:24:23.080They can only be motivated by threats in the world of the supernatural, and the mystics kept these individuals in line in following the king.
00:24:32.420And the problem is, is that now we live in a society, like, especially as we enter a space-faring age, where these individuals that cannot be motivated by honor and integrity and stuff like that are just not particularly a useful use of food and life support systems.
00:24:46.660So, that makes the shamans less useful than they would have been in a history context, unless we find some different way of utilizing them, which is going to be hard, given our views around things like witchcraft.
00:25:02.180Yeah, so you're just like, drop them. Drop them.
00:25:05.160I don't see a high utility for them. I think individuals, so I mean, there's two types of shamans, right?
00:25:10.520One type of shaman is genuinely, like, thinks they're hearing voices and everything like that, and they are the schizophrenic type shaman.
00:25:18.060These individuals are not going to act, they are not the type of person you want on a spaceship where a single mistake can kill everyone.
00:25:26.100The other type of shaman is the type of shaman that is actually more like a philosopher type,
00:25:33.580but they have slotted themselves into a shamanistic role, because they saw some level of arbitrage within that role.
00:25:41.080And these individuals can, if they can close themselves off to the realms of the unprovable, as we talk about in our witchcraft video,
00:25:50.000which I would suggest you watch to understand our full views on this,
00:25:53.760can become of utilization and can move into a philosopher group,
00:25:58.480but a philosopher group that's specialized on human manipulation and understanding how humans think and act,
00:26:05.640so long as they do not promote chaos cults on the spaceship or the colony or anything like that,
00:26:13.080you know, when I'm thinking distant human future.
00:26:15.020When I say chaos cults, what I mean is, you know, genuine mysticism and the belief of alternate systems
00:26:21.680that govern the physical reality within which we live, because that is what mysticism fundamentally is.
00:26:26.540It's a hypothesis that there is an alternate explanation for how physics and reality works,
00:26:32.480but a hypothesis that you are unwilling to have tested and disprove it.
00:26:38.020So what do you think of this framework? Any other groups you would add to it?
00:26:45.040I mean, in modern society, we also have to consider, and this is not a gendered thing, so maybe it doesn't count,
00:26:52.840but the people who are just completely, like the hikikomori in Japan,
00:26:58.020the people who've become shut-ins and completely...
00:27:00.460I guess I'd call them blanks. These are the people who the shamans are meant to control.