00:01:33.280So yeah, I have misused the term, I have misused the term.
00:01:38.080So a second in command is beta in a particular situation.
00:01:43.840Then of course if we're talking about the Fellowship of the Ring, to take that example.
00:01:49.120Boromir of course is the alpha when he is the commander of the armies of Gondor.
00:01:53.920And Aragorn later becomes an alpha when he becomes king.
00:01:58.960So alpha and beta, they aren't really good terms to use because they are so fluid in their use.
00:02:07.840You have some guys who are good at being leaders in a certain situation because they know best then and there.
00:02:14.880But in a different situation they are not the best.
00:02:18.240And of course when we're talking about leadership, leadership is not something that is necessarily something you should strive for.
00:02:25.440But it's rather a responsibility you take on.
00:02:28.480And you take on a lot of, yeah, responsibility basically is what leadership is.
00:02:33.280And the one who knows the way best is supposed to be the leader.
00:02:38.320The one who knows how to steer the ship.
00:02:41.520The one who knows the course, the best course of action.
00:02:45.120He should reluctantly embrace the position of a leader or an alpha.
00:02:53.120So basically I will not use these terms anymore.
00:02:56.240I haven't used them in years for this reason as well.
00:02:59.200But I'm just making this video to clarify.
00:03:01.200If you watch an older video of mine and I say, you know, these bitas, I don't mean it in the correct sense of the word.
00:03:09.360I don't mean it as it actually, as it is actually supposed to be used.
00:03:14.800So a beta is actually something you do want.
00:03:17.600And speaking of culture, since I've referred to the Lord of the Rings, I can also refer to Warhammer 40k, the Horus Heresy.
00:03:28.160And I do believe that it is an appealing aesthetic because you have a literal god emperor that others can serve.
00:03:37.600So High Thumos men who are very capable in their own right, they are serving the god emperor.
00:03:43.440And I do believe that is a good and worthy goal for any man to find a good leader to serve.
00:03:53.200And if we're talking about hierarchy and everything like that, it is a sign of a mature man to be able to recognize the greatness of another man and to follow him.
00:04:06.400And this is why legendary individuals such as Alexander the Great or Napoleon, they are always very attractive in that sense as leaders of men because they can bring you to glory, as it were.
00:04:20.480So absolutely nothing wrong with being a beta.
00:04:24.720Absolutely nothing wrong with being a follower.
00:04:26.800Being a follower is something good if you follow someone worth following.
00:04:31.520Which in Alexander's case, yeah, he was very worth following because his followers, they were brought to glory by him.
00:04:42.880So that is something to note that, yeah, being a beta then or being a follower is something good.
00:04:50.880Or if you aren't worthy, if a good leader sees you as being unfit to be a follower of his, yeah, then you can work on yourself.
00:05:02.560And then of course you have this rather juvenile libertarian mindset that, oh, you know, I'm my own man and I don't follow anyone.
00:05:11.360Perhaps because you aren't worthy of being a companion, perhaps you aren't worthy of serving a great man.
00:05:19.040Now, of course, I'm talking in very broad terms here.
00:05:22.160I'm talking about, historically speaking, today hierarchies, they can be quite hard to find to begin with.
00:05:29.920So this leads us into the term sigma male, which I suppose is mostly a meme, but it denotes someone who will, who want to stand outside of the hierarchy and do his own thing.
00:05:46.240And I suppose most guys today, they are sigma males, not because they want to, but because the hierarchies are dissolved and everyone is sort of an individual in themselves, which isn't good.
00:06:01.520It's not good. It's good to be part of a larger community.
00:06:06.160So anyway, main point of this video, if you watch an older video of mine and I say, oh, this beat us,
00:06:12.600know that now at least I am, I know the proper use of the term and being a beta is absolutely not something that is bad.
00:06:22.440It's something that I view at least as something good.
00:06:26.340Being an alpha then is, I haven't used this term in a long while and I will not use it moving forward either.
00:06:34.780You can say leader and a leader is someone who can be a leader in one situation and a follower in a different situation.
00:06:41.760And as I've said in a podcast episode, in certain situations, it can be good to reluctantly accept the responsibility of leadership.
00:06:52.640But otherwise you should always try to find out who, which man is the most suited to leadership and then try to be a good follower of his.
00:07:04.320Then of course we can talk about monarchy and everything like that, but that is a topic for another video.