For the record, Alcibiades is the example that Cleckley, the psychiatrist who introduced psychopathy in the DSM, uses as the quintessential psychopath, in his Magnum Opus The Mask of Sanity.
Maybe this is a way to put it: "Alpha" and "Beta" refer to female perceptions. So, they are contextual.
Being authentically masculine and self-aware, is innate. You might come off either as Alpha or Beta to observing females, depending on the context. (Although it tends to land you on the Alpha side).
Sigma... Is my favorite disagreement with Typo. Imo, there is a "sigma" disposition. When you could, but don't bother to.
@First-light spot on. I was thinking the exact same thing.
Now that TRP is breaking out to the mainstream, the hysterics come: they make too much noise, are too flashy, and want to take over a narrative that has been painstakingly been built by men quietly comparing notes over two decades.
That's the great thing about the red pill: it has brought together men from all walks of life, in their effort to solve an unsolvable problem (how to deal satisfactorily with women).
In sports psychology, and not only there, they have identified that there's the technical leader and the guy that is the emotional center of the team. Often, these are different persons. This highlights that there are two separate modes, simply put the logical and the emotional, and people switch between them.
The Alpha archetype functions solely on the emotional, and that's a critical point I'm making.
Whether he's competent in the real world or not is another issue altogether.
That's why people, not only women but even whole nations, may follow a "charismatic" psychopath to their destruction.
A man from the upper classes can afford to always act Alpha, since family wealth is there to bail him out when reality hits. A man from the lower-middle class usually only has one chance, so being delusional might initially get him the girl but will destroy his life. He needs to engage the "Beta", careful, analytical mind.
So yes, I think we agree.
Read More@Typo-MAGAshiv from what I can tell, youtube "COMMUNITY " posts, appear in the feed of subscribers and frequent viewers even when not subscribed. They're an additional feature, but not a replacement or substitute for uploading your own video content to your channel.
@Typo-MAGAshiv the link sends to the following: This Community isn't available Visit this creator's channel to see their content. Go to channel
So, I went to channel, and subscribed using my own account Not afraid of doxxing, RPS deleted the picture I posted of my license plate that says REDPIIL.
I'll make a spoiler of my view, which would be enough for long-timers in here:
The notion that "Alpha" is "a type of guy" is a female one: it's essentialist, and has been popular due to an admittedly overrepresentation of far-right thinking in the red pill. (I'm not criticizing it, just stating it as a fact).
The TRP sidebar has a more fluid definition of Alpha and Beta being sets of behaviours which invoke female reactions, which is another, more accurate way to describe them.
I believe Woujo hit bullseye when he connected the Alpha to the leader of the primal tribe. There's a primitive core in the female attraction system that makes them receptive to such a kind of projection. Sadly, there's a remnant of this in men, too, and we see it when men emotionally submit to leaders.
Now, because we live in extended societies and not primal tribes, there are several contexts that have different nstural leaders. The situational Alpha is the only real-life instantiation of an "Alpha", if we exclude the delusional Alpha.
What an AFC needs is not how to "become" Alpha, but rather an actionable way to achieve a state of positive emotions and non-reactiveness, as well as free up their capacity to lead an interaction. RPS wrote about captive audiences, how you go about making your own bubble in which you can be "Alpha", when you don't have the advantage of a 8 or 9 physique.
"Alpha" is a state where System 2 thinking is not invoked. It's being in flow.
Therefore, any man enters and leaves that state, depending on the circumstances.
That's why entering a relationship while being too alpha, usually beckfires. Either you get burned up, or the woman does, trying to pick up after you when things that demand System 2 thinking get left behind.
Read More@SwarmShawarma hit post before adding, not impressed with Trump's renewed blockade and embargo against Cuba. People always leave that major factor out when they boast, "SeE, ComMunIsm faIlS evEryWheRe it's tRiED!!1!! Cuba is full of old-ass American cars kept running on homebrew replacement parts, and they produce some world class Doctors and medical innovations.
@SwarmShawarma interesting, thanks for sharing. As First-light mentioned, it's not a new idea, Scandinavian countries in particular converted cars to run on various fossil fuels and biomass. This was a stopgap wartime measure. It's much more practical in large stationary plant applications especially where the feedstock is an abundant local waste product. See also, Producer Gas.