Vox Day's Taxonomy Unnecessary

Vox Day added his take on classifying men using various Greek letters.  While interesting, it isn’t necessary and it makes  the thing needlessly complex while pigeonholing men into various castes in the social hierarchy.

All that is really necessary is to understand the terms, alpha, beta and omega.  Men are not all one thing, they have attributes of all three to varying degrees.  It is better to think of something as being alpha, or being beta.  When you say someone is alpha, what is really being said is that the majority of the man’s attributes are alpha, and a beta, the majority of his attributes are beta and so on.

Start with definitions:

1. ALPHA:  Those attributes that are attractive to women.  They relate to the power a man has.  The more power he has, the more alpha he is.  Wealth, a willingness to act violent, control over men, all are attributes of alpha.
2. BETA: Those attributes that benefit society and women more than the man himself.  Useful characteristics that are not fundamentally attractive, but can be admired: Being a good father, being a hard worker, being dependable, being a Renfield.
3. OMEGA: Those attributes that are generally repulsive, an attraction killer or contribute less to society than they add:  Playing Dungeon and Dragons, obsessions with porn.

What Vox describes as a Sigma, is really a man with a majority of alpha characteristics with a dash of Omega ones and little or no beta attributes.  A serial killer is similar.  People are often drawn to those things that scare them or repulse them.

What Vox describes as Lamdas are men with lots of beta characteristics, a fair amount of Omega and a dash of alpha.

A Gamma is a person with almost all beta characteristics with omega (no one likes a lickspittle) and no alpha.

Every man has his own unique combination of alpha, beta and omega, and each man can work on improving his alpha attributes and diminishing his omega ones.  Vox’s example of Kissinger is a perfect example.  The man is indeed an Apex alpha now, but I daresay that when he was a teenager he was viewed as more Omega than anything else.

So in looking at behaviors the question is merely “does this make me more attractive or does it serve society more than me?”

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