There’s a typical renewal of the sociosexual hierarchy & Red Pill concepts going around the bloggers I follow. It started with Adam & Filotto debating in the context of Catholic vocations, so far as I could tell, which meant my pithy Protestant answer wasn’t invited. That’s fine; I fisked Adolf Hitler in his bunker instead; but it expanded from there into criticism of SSH and the importance of women in young mens’ lives.
It all misses the point, really.
Human behavior IS sexual behavior. Workplace, male-space, charitable and other social interactions are all just spillover from the basic male-female dynamic. On the one hand, this should surprise absolutely nobody; of course the strongest, most primal and most essential interaction would set the tone for the others.
On the other hand… it DOES surprise everybody, time and again and every single time, to the meme event horizon and beyond. Enlightenment for you, in 3…
“Why don’t men go to church anymore?”
“Well, why should they?”
“Don’t change the subject!”
2…
“Men don’t want to work anymore!”
“Does your BigCorp business respect them, pay them well them and at least try to be a fun, sane place to work?”
“Why would we do that?”
1…
“Men only want sex from my daughter!”
“Can he get sex anywhere except your daughter, or one of her girlfriends?”
“Not since I helped outlaw his porn, haha!”
The latter attitude leads to the former two.
A society that does not value the sex needs of its men, does not value its men. The attitude will inevitably show up downstream. I cannot state that any plainer.
The sociosexual hierarchy is important because it categorizes men by sexual success, which has proven to have high predictability regarding mens’ general status and behavior in society. Also, Satan’s general behavior in society. Also, what an ideal society might look like. Let me recap the SSH, and shift the definitions to my own perspective:
Alphas get lots of female attention, sex, etc.
Omegas get nothing.
That is the devil’s standard plan for society. Whoever has, gets to glut himself beyond all limits; whoever doesn’t, gets robbed and beaten to the city limits, because that’s what winners do. Then the losers get dragged back inside city limits as slaves.
Bravos get enough success with women, because they know what they’re doing.
Deltas get enough success with women, despite being ignorant or clumsy.
Often called the “merchant class”, “artisan class” or “middle class”, these two categories might as well be called the Hated Class. The devil is a tempter. He cannot sexually tempt a man, not easily, when he has his own well to drink from as he wishes.
That is why forbidding marriage is diabolical, not just sinful.
Churches are EXCEPTIONALLY notorious for not allowing men to enjoy their wives. “You haven’t paid your dues yet. God’s Secret Plan For You has nothing to do with the sex drive He wired into you. Remember, sex is ONLY EVER for breeding. Not recreation. Headcount is what matters to the Church, err, God! If you still suffer lust then you aren’t ready for marriage. STOP BOTHERING ME WITH YOUR NEEDS, CREEP! God will reward your privations after you’re dead!”
Oh yes, I have an attitude for the modern, useless, Godless Church. Anyway.
Sigma doesn’t exist. It’s a Big Lie, a Utopia, the idea that one can have automatic and permanent success with women.
Gammas are the fools who embrace the Edenic Rebellion. They sabotage masculinity in order to achieve Sigma status, which is a self-defeating stupidity comparable to environmentalists strip-mining lithium via child slave labor in order to bring back Eden. Or, creating a workers’ paradise by giving government all of the authority and the workers, all of the duty. Women love to use Gammas politically because they’re the males who submit, but despise them sexually because they aren’t real men.
Now do you see the importance of the SSH?
It’s not just notch count… but a man with many notches, will behave differently & predictably than a man with no notches, and it says something about their local culture, too. Especially since, the normal gender ratio being 1:1, the only way to get many notches is cuckoldry, fornication and Alpha Widowmaking. Unrepentant sin tends to spread, yes?
A society that allows both unlimited sexual success for men, and zero sexual success for men (it must be both at the same time, mathematically), is probably a society that consists of only palaces and slums. Why would they only disrespect a man’s sexual needs? Why would it not also disrespect his material needs, too? Survival is already off the table, because birth rates.
A society that embraces Original Sin, will become a death cult enforcing an impossible lie. You are here.
A society that upholds God’s natural order of N=1, will care both that unattractive men have some success, while the attractive do not have too much, and that Deltas are taught better into Bravo status rather than lied into Gamma status. Such a society will be mercilessly, endlessly attacked from within and without, because it’s the only format of society which poses a threat to the devil. Happily continent men, a government that distributes success instead of hoarding it, and intact families guarded by a motivated patriarch? That’s as close to winning as Christianity can get, on this side of the Cross.
That’s where the SSH/Red Pill declined, when its natural development began shifting from descriptive to prescriptive. We cannot act upon much of that knowledge, because we are ruled by Satan’s spiteful mutants, so we have reached an impasse.
Yes, some men will use Red Pill concepts for immoral gain. That is irrelevant bordering on slavery. Men are appointed to accomplish, and they cannot accomplish without real knowledge and real power, therefore society owes them the ability to do wrong, because it’s also the ability to do right.
You don’t get to take the choice from him.
And it would really help him accomplish “useful” stuff, if society didn’t force him to have blue balls for the first twelve years of his adulthood.
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Frankly, that chart looks optimistic. That looks like Fedgov began Fudging those numbers, too, circa 2020. Then again, that’s also when they got confused about what a woman is.
SSH/Red Pill concepts remain important because they are tools that help men succeed with women, whether for good or ill. Men deserve this power. Men deserve much more than modern society gives them. Which is why modern society is dying despite all its “forrrr the chilllldren!” “demographics is destiny!” lies.
Your society’s future is its young men, not its children. Why is that hard? Because men who haven’t yet established themselves, are not yet attractive to women. Women like babies. They don’t like young bucks with talent, hormones and no money. And the fatal flaw in Adam, was his ability to tell a woman No.
We cannot thwart the Regime, but we can advocate for male headship. That was the moment all the unbelievers, many of them professing Christians, fell away.
Man I love this article so much. The real origin of freedom in the west was basically that you don’t know how God intends to use somebody, so you have to provide for a wide range of freedom of action with sensible limitations for the obvious stuff like murder, theft, etc. I’m glad you addressed that as opposed to following the same love of coercion that characterizes the left and on the Christian side the “integrist”.
“Sexual” insecurity is a similar problem to “food insecurity”. It entails men dumping more and more resources into attracting women versus dumping those resources into the relationship itself and its consequences, children, the family. That’s if men don’t check out entirely and don’t generate much anyway because why would they? It’s the same reason the third world is poor for reasons no one wants to talk about; you don’t build anything if it’s just going to be taken from you.
Had the thought the other day that we’ve almost shifted from the problem of “how do we get these men into reasonably sound marriages” to “how do we keep these men from killing themselves or hurting others?” Both the “right” and the left are leaning on the old standby, bullying and coercion, on men who are already up against the wall in a lot of ways. Which is exactly the origin of the Triad gangs of China.
So back to first principles, the only war that really matters is the spiritual war. Without men turning to God and His grace and mercy nothing is going to work. We assume things get bad and magically turn around while ignoring the many, many societies, that essentially get bad and stay there. This is the only way for men and women. Sorry for the long post, hope it’s not bad form.