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March 24, 2015 - Davis Aurini
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Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Omega

Remy Sheppard's blog: http://remysheppard.com/ Vox Day's Alpha Game: http://alphagameplan.blogspot.com/2015/03/graduating-gamma-4.html My blog: http://www.staresattheworld.com/ My Twitter: http://twitter.com/Aurini Download in MP3 Format: http://www.clipconverter.cc/ Credits: I Feel You by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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