"The Empress Is Naked"
adam-l

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 MoreFirst I have in mind is around the seemingly neverending debate about "Alphas" and "Betas".
I've been mulling over some similar material in my mind.
No matter which of us gets his posted first, I look forward to seeing yours, and I'm still going to post mine.
I will say this: I wish none of that Greek letter bullshit ever took off the way it did. I was saying it was stupid on Roosh's PUA forum back in 2000.
@First-light it's kind of what I've been doing in the past decade.
Bits and pieces of what's up are circulating in the Manosphere, but I believe it's not easy for a guy to put it all together. There's too much noise and special cases, and it's a struggle to grasp what's essential. Like Rollo, I too just put the pieces of the puzzle together.
But yes, I'll get some posts out, and see how this goes. First I have in mind is around the seemingly neverending debate about "Alphas" and "Betas".
@adam-l Perhaps, don't try to write it all in one book then?
A successful academic once told me that at university he had realised his teachers were wrong about something but he would never get published if he tried to tell them it as an undergraduate. Instead, as a post grad, he wrote one paper after grounded in the current orthodoxy and another hinting at the truth. Each paper revealing a different aspect of where he really wanted to go. When he had a successful academic career and was respected as an authority in his field, he then published the ground breaking revision based on al of his by then fully accepted papers. He had known this truth since being an undergraduate but they only listened when he was already a professor. Then he was suddenly the ground breaking genius.
It will be a better book if it is carefully distilled drop by drop and it will be better received if it is turned over a few years in the cask of the manosphere -long enough to take on the background flavours but not to long enough to lose its spirit.
I would write a few short works to the manosphere, get liked and then write the grand unified thoery.
Read More@adam-l Lady Macbeth is a great example of culture always having known how manipulative women are and how they will stop at nothing for self advancement in society.
She is strong as steel when fuelling Macbeth up to kill the king and take the throne and thus to make her queen. She is a great supporting wife, the strong woman behind the strong man but this only works in one direction -towards her goal. She falls to pieces when things don't work out so well. When Macbeth actually needs a strong woman she is nowhere.
@Vermillion-Rx I haven't started yet.
What's holding me back is Whisper's warning: If you try to bring the elder vampires to the light, they'll attack you. I don't want to have the luck of Prometheus or Wilhelm Reich...
@Vermillion-Rx it's a whole new book that I've been working in my mind for a few years now. It's a steady truth for the Human species, that has been laid out by myths, religions etc, and needs to be retold in the language of each era. That's evopsych, metapsychology and metapolitics, today.
It has profound practical implications, because a lot of men get hung up on the whys, ao it has the potential to make them atop worrying and fuck the sluts, while not being fucked by them.
An example: Macbeth. It's lady Macbeth who's the psychopath and makes him do crime and destroy himself. That's what, from a distance, I see happening in the US right now.
@SeasonedRP it was probably much less deep than you imagine.
After their success with Venezuela, they got cocksure that they could bully Iran to fold in a few days.
It has been a while since there was a US intervention, too, and some in the military wanted, as Trump put it, "fun".
It's absurd, but a lot of what happens in international relations, war as well, is based on emotion rather than logic and planning.
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