Some Gamma Traits do not always a Gamma make. The Healing of Omegas.
I am certain by now everyone knows of the Socio-Sexual-Hierarchy Vox Day came up with, and while useful, I never gave it too much thought, as I had devised my own much simpler cataloguing of men years before I became aware of Vox at all.
My SSH was brutally simple, and served my simple needs when living and working in what ultimately was a brutally simple world in many ways. The world had Alphas in it, powerful leader types that commanded the respect, loyalty or at least obedience of others, Betas, who could essentially be ignored lest they served a purpose, and scouts, that were men who could navigate between groups entirely different from each other, including the entire culture and ethnicity. Scouts in the old days were also spies, assassins and essentially potential competitors to alphas in a purely physical life or death scenario, something betas generally never are.
Vox added a lot of dimensions and depth to the male hierarchies, which certainly gave insights I had not bothered to contemplate, mostly because regardless of class, certain people are always going to be people I want nothing to do with. But in identifying the gammas he named the type of individual I frankly could do completely without: the gammas.
Snivelling wormtongue cowards I called them.
In the Western world, sadly, such creatures have obtained varying degrees of economic or financial success, which often carries the delusions of status in their own minds. And in the West, bitchslapping one of them as soon as they irritate you usually has consequences beyond the ones you have in a country in Africa.
I again, tended to ignore the entire gamma classification because I do not interact with them anyway, even in my professional life, I immediately sideline them, avoid them or otherwise neutralise them from my orbit.
Nevertheless, the general higher numbers of these creatures in so-called civilisation gave me opportunity to observe them. Much like an explorer may observe a curiously poisonous mollusc that inhabits an area he lives in, even if he does not interact with them.
Gammas are frankly creatures I have no wish to study in depth or know much about, nor do I care to. The observations are made in passing as I notice things anyway. Mostly this is because I cannot fathom, nor care to, what it is like to be like these beings. Eaten away by envy and bitterness. Incapable of inspiring anything other than contempt or superficial, shallow, friendships in anyone, incapable of having a woman besotted with them to their depths. They seem cursed to me, cursed to be rats all of their days, when, they should be men.
However, I have noticed some gamma tendencies in some people, which is not surprising since the SSH is generic and there are probably at least small elements of various other classes in most people. Gammas, however, do tend to pretty much never have any genuine alpha traits. But certain omegas, do at times exhibit gamma traits that are recurring.
In looking at this in more detail, it became clear that an omega, a man that was crushed early on, usually by his own parents or primary care takers anyway, and pretty much everyone else since, who has had enough time to heal, and maybe managed to carve out a life of sorts for himself, may go through a few gamma traits. Perhaps may even need to go through them as he slowly heals towards Delta.
The series Graduating Gamma at Vox’s old Alpha Game blog, is useful and may help such people, but the thing to understand in this case is that the gamma behaviours are the result of a need to have or gain some control over social situations. The Omega is essentially like a blind squirrel in social situations, so they may have looked at interactions that left an impression on them, which will generally be some alpha event, and then try to emulate it, in the completely wrong context. Then they get reacted to by those they are trying to impress —-or rather, really just be pals with—- negatively, as happens whenever inappropriate social status behaviour is done, which triggers their shame, humiliation, pain etc from childhood generally, and then they may try to excuse their behaviour with all sorts of reasons and excuses, accusations or appeals to authority, God or whatever else.
But these are the fumblings of a drowning man, persistent and even pattern-steady as they may be, and not actually gamma souls.
The difference is that omegas (at least some of them, certainly) are capable of absurd levels of loyalty. And as such, can be positive contributors to a group. Their gamma lashing outs are, I think, teething problems, as they desperately try to work their way to delta-hood.
Some Omegas eventually may become some version of Sigmas, though I do not think this is the path of what I would call the natural Sigma, but the law of averages would suggest most Omegas would be grateful Deltas if someone could show them the path.
In such cases, it can be worthwhile to take the time to mentor such a person enough that they can find their way. It is a long process and, as always, the man in question has to want it too, but some encouragement is helpful.
Which is not something I suggest at all for actual gammas. Those guys need stomping on until they finally are forced to face their own snivelling, cowardly, devious selves. And own up to it. Crushing public shaming and painful, earned, slow and constantly tested walk towards Deltahood is the only way.
I do not know, whom this advice may help, but I hope it does.
Some Gamma Traits do not always a Gamma make. The Healing of Omegas.
I am certain by now everyone knows of the Socio-Sexual-Hierarchy Vox Day came up with, and while useful, I never gave it too much thought, as I had devised my own much simpler cataloguing of men years before I became aware of Vox at all.
My SSH was brutally simple, and served my simple needs when living and working in what ultimately was a brutally simple world in many ways. The world had Alphas in it, powerful leader types that commanded the respect, loyalty or at least obedience of others, Betas, who could essentially be ignored lest they served a purpose, and scouts, that were men who could navigate between groups entirely different from each other, including the entire culture and ethnicity. Scouts in the old days were also spies, assassins and essentially potential competitors to alphas in a purely physical life or death scenario, something betas generally never are.
Vox added a lot of dimensions and depth to the male hierarchies, which certainly gave insights I had not bothered to contemplate, mostly because regardless of class, certain people are always going to be people I want nothing to do with. But in identifying the gammas he named the type of individual I frankly could do completely without: the gammas.
Snivelling wormtongue cowards I called them.
In the Western world, sadly, such creatures have obtained varying degrees of economic or financial success, which often carries the delusions of status in their own minds. And in the West, bitchslapping one of them as soon as they irritate you usually has consequences beyond the ones you have in a country in Africa.
I again, tended to ignore the entire gamma classification because I do not interact with them anyway, even in my professional life, I immediately sideline them, avoid them or otherwise neutralise them from my orbit.
Nevertheless, the general higher numbers of these creatures in so-called civilisation gave me opportunity to observe them. Much like an explorer may observe a curiously poisonous mollusc that inhabits an area he lives in, even if he does not interact with them.
Gammas are frankly creatures I have no wish to study in depth or know much about, nor do I care to. The observations are made in passing as I notice things anyway. Mostly this is because I cannot fathom, nor care to, what it is like to be like these beings. Eaten away by envy and bitterness. Incapable of inspiring anything other than contempt or superficial, shallow, friendships in anyone, incapable of having a woman besotted with them to their depths. They seem cursed to me, cursed to be rats all of their days, when, they should be men.
However, I have noticed some gamma tendencies in some people, which is not surprising since the SSH is generic and there are probably at least small elements of various other classes in most people. Gammas, however, do tend to pretty much never have any genuine alpha traits. But certain omegas, do at times exhibit gamma traits that are recurring.
In looking at this in more detail, it became clear that an omega, a man that was crushed early on, usually by his own parents or primary care takers anyway, and pretty much everyone else since, who has had enough time to heal, and maybe managed to carve out a life of sorts for himself, may go through a few gamma traits. Perhaps may even need to go through them as he slowly heals towards Delta.
The series Graduating Gamma at Vox’s old Alpha Game blog, is useful and may help such people, but the thing to understand in this case is that the gamma behaviours are the result of a need to have or gain some control over social situations. The Omega is essentially like a blind squirrel in social situations, so they may have looked at interactions that left an impression on them, which will generally be some alpha event, and then try to emulate it, in the completely wrong context. Then they get reacted to by those they are trying to impress —-or rather, really just be pals with—- negatively, as happens whenever inappropriate social status behaviour is done, which triggers their shame, humiliation, pain etc from childhood generally, and then they may try to excuse their behaviour with all sorts of reasons and excuses, accusations or appeals to authority, God or whatever else.
But these are the fumblings of a drowning man, persistent and even pattern-steady as they may be, and not actually gamma souls.
The difference is that omegas (at least some of them, certainly) are capable of absurd levels of loyalty. And as such, can be positive contributors to a group. Their gamma lashing outs are, I think, teething problems, as they desperately try to work their way to delta-hood.
Some Omegas eventually may become some version of Sigmas, though I do not think this is the path of what I would call the natural Sigma, but the law of averages would suggest most Omegas would be grateful Deltas if someone could show them the path.
In such cases, it can be worthwhile to take the time to mentor such a person enough that they can find their way. It is a long process and, as always, the man in question has to want it too, but some encouragement is helpful.
Which is not something I suggest at all for actual gammas. Those guys need stomping on until they finally are forced to face their own snivelling, cowardly, devious selves. And own up to it. Crushing public shaming and painful, earned, slow and constantly tested walk towards Deltahood is the only way.
I do not know, whom this advice may help, but I hope it does.
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