I came up with my own version of a way to differentiate between different types of men long before I met Vox and read about his SSH , and while I have written about this in Caveman Theory , for this piece, it is useful to explain it a bit so that the differences between his Sigmas and my Scouts are a bit more in evidence.
According to Vox, Sigmas are a “rounding error” in terms of numbers of men that fall into that category. Perhaps this so in his version of the SSH, but frankly, I doubt it.
My own version of the SSH only had three categories: Alphas, which match pretty much 1:1 the Alphas of his SSH, Betas, which are an agglomeration of all the other male types he has further categorised as Betas, Deltas, Gammas, Omegas, and Lambdas, but which to me were in essence, all about equivalent for my purposes, which were more vicious and fundamental I suppose.
Alphas can be dangerous. Betas (the agglomeration of other types) not really. Not so in a direct confrontation anyway, which is what I was primarily concerned with for the first 20 or 30 years of my life. And then there were Scouts. People like me.
I never had any desire to lead or be seen as the leader, main guy, etc etc or have adoring fans. Above all I really just wanted to be left alone to do what I wanted without bugging anyone else. I had no interest in all the normal social activities kids and teenagers and people in their 20s normally engage in.
I found going to clubs a waste of time and stupid. Team sports I hated because invariably if you screw up you feel bad you let the team down and if there are a bunch of lazy assholes on the team that didn’t give it their all I similarly got frustrated. Karate was different. I could function well there, either as a follower or as a leader. I always gave it my all, as a follower, and when leading, anyone not pulling their weight you can literally kick their ass. It’s extremely effective at motivating people, so it worked well. I don’t mind people’s limitations. We all have them. But I can’t abide shirkers, cowards, and liars.
Scouts were to my mind possibly the most dangerous of all. Like myself, they could fit into various and diverse roles. Like a chameleon they can work well as part of a team, solo or even leading for a short period. Leading long term is not something we are willing or keen to do. It’s something we do out of sheer necessity or survival from time to time.
The defining characteristic of a Scout is that he is an explorer at heart. Curiosity and a certain level of fearlessness or disregard for almost all social rules that aren’t life and death stuff is kind of the norm. And they are good with women, because in general, a man of that sort has to have an uncommon confidence as well as ability to be effective and resourceful all on his own. All attractive qualities. In short, yes, they can be evil or good, but in either case they are alluring to some degree.
The reason I called them Scouts is because I figured in primitive times various different types and tribes of humans would almost always tend to kill each other on sight, but yet… humans spread all over and mixed with all other humans, so at least SOME men must have had an ability to infiltrate or join communities that were not their original ones, and also be able not only to survive there, but also reproduce effectively.
No small feat to infiltrate another tribe and breed successfully enough to create a new coalition of those two tribes.
Scouts pretty much correlate to Sigmas in most but probably not all respects. So this may be a reason why Vox recons Sigmas are a rounding error while I think at least in the past, Scouts may have been as much as 2% of the male population. The number has decidedly shrunk in more modern times, because comfort, ease of life, and so on has stunted the adventurous spirit of such men and their probably have been watered down due to breeding with less adventurous women (because keep in mind that a woman pairing up with a Scout would ALSO experience some social stigma, so they too were probably of some different-than-normal variety).
I am also of the opinion that Scouts run in family lines and genealogies. My own family certainly has this pattern. As far back as we can find information on any of our ancestors, (some 800 years) they turn out to be characters that may as well fit in some swashbuckling adventure novel in the Edgar Rice Burroughs style. The first definite historical appearance they have is on returning from the Crusades around the late 1200s AD. Which means that sometime in the nearly 200 years previously, some from that line had gone there, and probably created other offspring that were born, lived and fought their entire lives in the Outremer.
My great-grandfathers on both sides of the family were pretty outrageous characters if in radically different ways. So were my grandfathers, and certainly my own father.
My own eldest son, though only 6 is already exhibiting so many Scout-like traits I am pretty sure he’s made from the same mould.
Now, it is not fair to say only Scouts/Sigmas are PC characters in this game of life. Certainly Alphas too would very often qualify. And so would some of the various Betas (from the gay Lambda like say Freddie Mercury, to the fully artificially created Omegas like Bill Gates, or Gammas like Jeff Bezos) but proportionally, almost every Scout is a PC and so are the majority of Alphas, if at varying resolutions of “power”. Some may be PCs in their immediate locality only. Some may be global level players. And conversely, some very globally active “players” are in effect just NPCs really, if very powerful ones. For example, sure, Trump can change the lives of millions and affect entire countries or even continents, he is a VERY powerful NPC, but he is still controlled by the Zionist Jews that are also geocoding the Palestinians without one mainstream media outlet saying a word about it.
So a Trump is the LARGE background character that in a game of Dungeons & Dragons would be the King whose edicts would affect all the people in the land. But in terms of personal freedom and ability to be a PLAYER CHARACTER, in the same spirit as one would have in the game, he is not. He’s just an NPC. While your first level Scout, weak and only armed with his wits and a longsword, may well have a far more interesting and worthwhile life from a personal perspective.
Now… my question to you, dear reader: Are you a PC? Do you want to be?
I mean… sure… it’s more dangerous, there is more pain involved, but also more rewards and more real life.
So… let me know. I am curious.
This post was originally published on my Substack. Link here
