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Cucky Stuff and Categorizing Males Via the Greek Alphabet Leave Me Cold

3/10/2019

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I don't know. Maybe I'm too old to care, but I come across a lot of material online that focuses on calling turncoat conservatives "cucks" and ordering males into a heirarchies defined by letters from the Greek alphabet and, well, most of it just leaves me cold.

​Don't misunderstand, I am not criticizing those who write about these things because it obviously seems important to them, and perhaps it is important at some level. The observations these writers make do contain some truth here and there, but the constant rants about 'cuckservatives' and the endless fixation on men as alphas, betas, or gammas just does not interest me all that much. 

Once again, I am not claiming that writing about these subjects is necessarily bad; it's just I don't find either topic all that engaging. This obviously places me in the minority as it seems many blog readers derive perennial satisfaction from reading about the latest Cucky McFluffmuffin, or gamma soyboy, or whatever. 

Well, to each his own, I suppose. 
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Bruce Charlton
3/10/2019 21:31:51

I quite agree. This is a species of posturing - just a different kind of virtue signalling. We should be pointing the finger at what we regard as evil; not at political weakness or lack of masculine-style aggression.

Strangely - this stuff about 'alpha males' etc. comes from men who would without doubt have been regarded as very effeminite by the tough working men (face working coal miners) of my paternal grandfather's generation.

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Epimetheus link
3/11/2019 14:01:21

It's useful knowledge if you're managing a team, but Vox Day had to shut down his blog about this stuff because of the issues Bruce mentioned - the subject inspires constant navel-gazing and self-deception.

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Epimetheus link
3/12/2019 00:21:58

To the extent there is an intrinsic male dominance hierarchy, I wonder if the social darwinism of public schools has something to do with it. A small child is trained into an artificially low rank if he's separated daily from everyone who would love and protect him and taken to a tribe of random, uncaring strangers.

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Bruce Charlton
3/12/2019 09:14:22

Epi is on to something I think - tho' it goes beyond schools.

In a mass society, when it is all-but mandatory to 'believe' the mass media and officialdom, we lack freedom and choice (being passive recipients and consumers) - we are threatened by a kind of crushing sense of insignificance...

At least we are if materialists and not religious.

The result seems to be that mainstream secualr materialistic people (men especially) try-to construct an impenetrable shell of Pride to protect themselves; and validate themselves by claiming to be effective hedonists (especially sexual hedonists).

Naturally this happens by men creating a functional hierarchy where you are yourself positioned high. Certainly I used to do this - and in a way which now seems very obvious!

(Women create an analogous delusional hierarchy of attractiveness and peer approval.)

There is no escaping that human beings must-have the spiritual and religious in life, if we are to avoid one species of insanity or another.

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Francis Berger
3/12/2019 16:09:05

@Epimetheus @Bruce

I commend you both for your great comments. There definitely appears to be a sort of "compensation" phenonemon in the male heirarchy paradigm - the compensating of the spiritual with posturing in the material.

Perhaps this is why I am averse to the whole thing.

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