Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Omega
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A question from Thomas asks that I explore the concept of the "Sigma Male" and how it relates to the modern neo-masculinity movement. I discuss the concepts of alpha, beta, gamma, and sexual degenerate.
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this video comes from Thomas, who asks that I explore the concept of the sigma male.
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Now before I get to that, I think it's worth doing a full exploration of alpha, beta, gamma,
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etc. and what all these terms mean, as well as some of the critiques of them. Now, Uncle
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Bob, UncleBob.blogspot, if I remember correctly, has an excellent point which is, now it's
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partly informed by the fact that he's a lot older than most guys. And what's happening
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with the neo-masculinity movement is that we are a generation of men trying to pick ourselves
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up by our bootstraps because we never had any male role models growing up, or at least not
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as many as we needed. He criticizes the alpha beta thing as superhero morality. That this
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is what the good alpha male would do and this is what the lowly beta would do. Where the
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alpha guy is the one that gets all the women, that gets the money, the success and the cars,
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and the beta is this pathetic simp that's always sucking up to women. He's the eternal loser.
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He's the bad guy in our comic book story. And the problem with comic books is that they're
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fundamentally unrealistic. They're aimed at children. There is no Superman. There is no
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Batman. And that's a good point as far as that goes. But, like I said, we are a generation
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of men that did not have masculine influences. So, it's important to keep in mind that this
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heuristic of alpha, beta, etc., it's an artificial projection onto society. It's not reality,
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but it can be a good way to correct your own behavior since we've all been subject to so
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much feminist indoctrination. So, the basic version, I already described that, where there's
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alpha is the guy that gets the money and the women and the cars. He's assertive, self-confident,
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badass. And the beta is the supplicating, suck-up, loser, white knight, etc. And then at the very
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base, you've got the gammas. And they're not even in the competition.
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That one is pretty straightforward, pretty simplistic. It's really just a way to correct
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your own behavior, to make sure that you're not putting women on a pedestal, that you're
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not being a pussy. Now, there's a more complex version that involves the omega sexual degenerate,
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which I first read it on No Ma'am's blog. And I'll expand upon that here. Now, No Ma'am would
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say that the alpha and beta are really the same thing at the end of the day. It's just the alpha
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is the captain of the football team. And the betas aren't the captain, but they're still on the football
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team. Neither the alpha nor the beta is defined by how many women they sleep with. But rather, they're
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defined by how other men respect them. So the alpha has his pick of women. And he might date several
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girls in a row. But ultimately, he settles on one woman. He just gets the best woman in the market,
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because he's the alpha. The rest of the betas, going down through the ranks, themselves sort out the
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remaining women. And in the end, everybody does wind up in a relatively monogamous sort of situation.
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The gammas, of course, at the bottom are the societal rejects, the retards, or the,
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the, the, I don't want to say introvert, because that suggests that introversion is a bad thing.
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But, but the, the damaged men, they don't get any action because of how damaged they are.
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But he adds another interesting spin, the Omega sexual degenerate.
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Now, the Omega in this scheme is the man that is, is the criminal, is the scam artist.
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He's the, the guy that all those jokes about farmers' daughters are made of, made about,
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where he, he promises the woman, yeah, I'm going to love you forever, baby. I'm going to marry you.
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But, but I really, you know what, my shirt is chafing me right now.
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And so he winds up manipulating women into bed, only to run off the next day. He's a perennial liar
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and a scam artist. And one of the unfortunate things about the present situation in the world is that
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women with the, you know, trying so hard to be men, completely indoctrinated by feminism,
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and masculinized with the, the education and possibly with all the birth control they're taking,
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And so when you read about game, when you study game, about 50% of it is actually being an alpha
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male, being a real man, is living up to masculine standards.
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And the other half, you know, as Roosh would say, is being a clown, is being the omega sexual
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degenerate. Because women, most women are not attracted to either the alphas or the betas.
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Other times they would have been. But with the present indoctrination system, they're,
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they're after their jollies, they're after their gina tingles in their early 20s.
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And so they want the scumbag. They want the guy that's going to run off the next day.
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The idea of having somebody actually care about them, actually look at them and see them,
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absolutely terrifies them. So when you read game, it's, it's a mixed, it's both at once. It's like,
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yeah, you should be an alpha male, a captain of the football team. That's something, that's a noble,
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worthy goal for all men to pursue. But you also need to be a clown if you're going to pick up these girls.
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Now the gamma. The gamma is one that, that Vox Day has been recently, he's been exploring this topic
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in a series of posts over at, I believe it's alpha blogspot. I'll put a link down below to it.
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Now the gamma. Traditionally, the gamma is just the, the, the retards, the losers, kids with down
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syndrome, etc. But there's a distinct phenomenon going on right now where there's a large number
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of gammas who are emotionally crippled. They are passive aggressive. They are extremely arrogant.
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They, they embrace this sort of societal narcissism that's present right now, where they can't tell
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the difference. In fact, like a lot of people nowadays can't tell the difference between what
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they say and what they are. You may have noticed this, that if you get into an argument with somebody
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and, and they bring up some political point or some factual point or what have you, and you prove them
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wrong on that factual statement, they take it as a personal affront. They take it like you're calling them
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a bad person, simply because you pointed out that you were factually incorrect about this.
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Now, of course, like nobody likes being incorrect or finding out that you made a mistake. It's embarrassing.
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But these people take it, it's deeper than that. Their, their identity is what they say.
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And so the gamma is interesting because they will actually start conversations.
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Instead of saying, you know, I hear the Thunderbird is a really good car. That's what I read in this
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magazine. Which is, that's a statement anybody could make. You can disagree with that if you
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know more about cars. The gamma will say that, but he won't, he won't say my opinion. He won't say I
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think. He will say, the T-Bird is the best car ever made. And it's a challenge. It's an affront. It's,
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he's challenging you to disagree with him. And if you start to win an argument with the gamma male,
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they will start redirecting. They will start trying to say, well, I guess it's just a matter of
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opinion. Even, even though they started off saying it like it was a fact, when you disprove the fact,
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now it's a matter of opinion. These are the sort of men that we have involved the social justice
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warrior side. You know, these extremely emotive, juvenile, uh, loud mouth, you know, opinionated,
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but it's not even opinions because they state it like it's facts. Uh, these sort of destructive men
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that have absolutely no ability with women whatsoever, and yet loudly proclaim how successful
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they are with women. It's a really an odd phenomenon.
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And finally, the Delta male. Now, the Delta, again, I think this is something originally, uh,
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put out there by Vox Day, but, uh, my, my friend Remy Shepard expanded upon this. This is how, uh,
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I first ran into the concept, and it's an interesting one. Uh, in particular, he used the example of the
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Avengers movie because the dynamics in that film perfectly nail all of this down. So, you've got
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Captain America in that film is the super alpha, and right below him, you've got, uh, you've got Iron
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Man. So, at first, Iron Man and Captain America get into some conflict until they get the pecking order
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established, where, yes, Captain America is more alpha than Iron Man, even though Iron Man is still
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very alpha. Now, the Delta male tends to get along quite well with alpha males, and the Delta male in
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that film is Bruce Banner. The Delta male is a man who's generally very intelligent, um, very successful
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with women, uh, very in control, very able to maintain their own frame, and yet they don't really
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participate in social organizations at all. Uh, they're the sort of guy that will show up at a party
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with a, with a hot blonde on his arm, but won't make waves. He won't compete with other men for women.
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Like, they, the Alphas, the Alphas, Betas, they, they all line themselves up into a hierarchy. The Delta
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tends to reject hierarchy. He's not interested in associating with, um, you know, he, he can. He
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gets along well with people. You know, he's not the Gamma that's constantly trying to fight with
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everybody, but he just doesn't seem to be interested in it. He's more of a lone wolf. He has a success
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with women, but it tends to be more of a individual endeavor. He doesn't compete with the Alphas. He
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doesn't try and usurp them, even though he's on their level, even though, in theory, he could.
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And so the, the Alpha and the Delta tend to get along very well, because they're both equally
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capable. It's, it's a meeting of equals between them, and yet they're not competing at all,
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because they move so differently. Uh, the, the Delta is, uh, orthogonal to the Alpha. And in Avengers,
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many people ask, why is it at the end that Iron Man and Bruce Banner drove off in the same car?
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It's because the Alpha and the Delta, they get along perfectly because they're not in direct
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I also suspect that Delta can be used as an excuse not to self-improve. The thing is that we need
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leaders in this society. We all need to be setting standards. And I think there's a lot of people that
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can see the Delta, they can embrace the Delta, and they become comfortable with that sort of lifestyle.
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They're no longer, they're not setting the pace for anybody. They're not setting any standards for
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anybody else, but they're living their own comfortable life. If they want to get laid,
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they will get laid. Uh, they don't make, uh, they don't make huge ripples at work. You know, they,
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they aren't famous or assertive or, you know, they're, they're not the center of attention.
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They're just kind of doing their own thing and going along to get along.
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But there, there's an element, there's an element of cowardice there. There's an element of not being
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your best that's, that's present there. I think the Delta constantly needs to challenge themselves
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to be better. So the thing is, if you're the Delta and you have a friend who is an alpha male who sets
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the standards for everything, then that's fine. Then everything's tickety-boo. But more often than not,
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I think the Delta is going to find themselves in situations surrounded by weak or cowardly betas
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and gammas. And if that's the case, it is up to you to take a leadership role, to take responsibility,
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to set standards. Otherwise, all of this gets out of hand. I think there might be a lot of guys that
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should be pursuing the alpha role who settle for Delta just because it's easier.
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So Delta is certainly an interesting observation on the socio-sexual dynamics of our species,
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but it can also be used as a crutch. So I would caution against it.
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I would say that if you think you are a Delta, you should still be disciplining yourself to do even
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more and to be confident and assertive in intra-male conflicts. Anyway, Irini out.