Armand Point, Saint George and the Dragon, 1890, oil on canvas
The last post rambled a bit more than I want here, but it managed to set up the next few topics. The idea came from observing a dumber than usual form of Gamma pattern on the Sigma Game site. Thinking about sharing it raised a lot of background stuff - too much for a post. The idea is to use that big starting post as the springboard for shorter looks at individual themes. It ended with the first topic - guidelines for moron detection. With that in mind, let’s meet the moron, and get into the next topic. As these accumulate, some insight into the Gamma “mind” should emerge.
James Ward, Ignorance, Envy and Jealousy, 1838, oil on canvas. Full title, Ignorance, Envy and Jealousy filling the throat and widening the mouth of Calumny; endeavoring to bear down Truth as an unshaken Pyramid founded on a rock.
The screenshots take a little imagination because they show the state of the comments after a number of exchanges. The real pre-flush experience unfolded slowly. I’ll show the full screenshot, then highlight the relevant demonstrations as they happened. Protecting the identities of the innocent of course. The characters are obvious except for the non-loser commenters. They’re regulars in this social group who tried to engage Li’l Turdling in good faith. The kind of guys posts like this are intended for.
The screenshots have to be untangled temporally to describe the interaction pattern. My initial intro came after Li’l Turdling bobbed up with a off reply to an innocuous comment by a high-status female I know from other venues. Replies are nested, so the Turdling comes first with its initial comment. The HSF replied to it, then I replied to her.
First the explanation, then the topic. There’s no need to explain why the HSF is high status, the thing about social groups is that status is natural and obvious. Only the Gamma is defined by the obsession with being what they aren’t. The problem emerges when the delusion bubble - the imaginary identity - collides with reality. As Day has repeated ad nauseum, social position is in the eyes of others. How a group reacts to you, sometimes before you even know it. If you’re honest, you can pick up a sense of where you stand by looking for reaction patterns. But you have no control over what you are. Failure to realize this begins the Gamma tragi-comedy.
The Li’l Turdling’s entry was tonally off - smarmy and obnoxious with obvious Gamma tells. Again, these aren’t choices - they’re instinctive social behaviors. Inappropriate familiarity with condescending undertones is a big internet one. Lol-speak diminishes male status among higher-status people. Not a question of fairness, it just does. Especially in an anonymous forum. Note that I speak to the HSF directly, dismissively mocking the skidmark to her. At no point will I address it. It wants the attention of its betters. It’s why it’s skulking around places where it’s expressly unwelcome. Speaking over its head to other people out of its league reaffirms social status distinction. Low status seeks high-status attention by posturing as part of a conversation. Simply ignoring it will inevitably cause it to show its nature to everyone else. In this case, a dull-witted Gamma pattern.
Carlos Saenz de Tejada, The Village Idiot, 1923; Spain, oil & sanguine on canvas, Private Collection
Two related topics come up here. Social groups and hierarchies, and high-status socialization. I’ll finish this post with the first one, then move into the second in the next since it builds off it. Sigma Game has shown that there is some uncertainty around what a social hierarchy is. This is natural - especially for younger people - given how distorted beast socialization is. It’s actually pretty simple. A hierarchy is just an arrangement or network of relative authority, status, importance, etc. Any organizational chart is hierarchical. A social group is any collection of people that has some common identifier or bond. Pretty much any collective you’re part of - work, teams, church, family, friends, etc. - is a social group. And in any group, people fall into profiles with different impacts on the collective.
Richard Schlomer, Ballroom, 20th century, oil on canvas, private collection
This may be where the uncertainty comes in. Any example of the SSH is situational by nature. An example has to be. But there is so much variety in social groups that it can be hard to apply one scenario to a totally different context. Unspoken customs and codes of conduct vary widely. Roles may shift situationally, making it easier to misjudge someone you only know in one way. The point is that identifying SSH gets a lot easier when you can first identify the social group. Once you know who you’re talking about, you can assess how they fit together. Then the hierarchical relations become clear. But that means burying ego and objectively tracing the internal codes and interaction patterns. As I explained in the introductory post, read and react assessments are integral to my own social process. But anyone can make these kinds of observations if they’re conscious about what to look for.
For example. In hindsight, one key to what social success is had was growing up playing ball next to an Alpha best friend and the only guy in town in our era with legit D1 talent. That may be a story for a future post. My abilities meshed perfectly in a supporting role, so I played dutiful self-sacrificing Delta on the court. An imaginable role anywhere else but something I could figure out through group dynamics and self-awareness. Athletically and social hierarchically. With lifelong consequences.
The beauty of sports is the meritocracy. Oh, favorites are a recurring problem, but that’s mostly bad coaching. In general, making a team is merit-based. In the introduction, I noted how mass socialization was generally unappealing to me, but there were things I enjoyed. And since people aren’t intuitive, processes have to be figured out analytically. I really wanted to play ball, but objectively wasn’t good enough to be a star. I was good enough to get minutes as a useful role player, so long as I stayed and excelled in my lane. The juice was worth the squeeze. The immediate social benefit was access to youth circles that would have been closed without being “an athlete”. More importantly, for someone who has to observe to understand, this brought way more social data to parse. Long-term, the commitment to lifting and running has brought a lifetime of physical status and confidence.
Boxer at Rest, (Terme Boxer, Boxer of the Quirinal), 330 to 50 BC, bronze, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome, Italy
Tl,dr - Hanging around high-status females not only isn’t new, it pretty much defines my history with females since middle school. And weird creeps trying to irritate is nothing new either. It’s the old better to be the object of disgust than be ignored.
Charles Hermans, Bal Masqué, 1880, oil on canvas
The last thing here is how the internet impacts social groups. A high school cafeteria analogy isn’t completely off, especially if all the demographics in a town go there. Obviously a smaller community doesn’t have true elites, but there’s always well-understood socio-economic classes. Most social groups are fairly narrow. The guys at work, the extended family, the boys, etc. There’s already some pre-self-selection in the make-up. My core group of friends were very high status locally. There weren’t any Gammas because we were choosy about who associated with us. You’re born into a family. Teams have to be made. Work has some common purpose. But everyone is in the cafeteria. And everyone is on the internet.
The difference is the anonymity. A loser isn’t going to walk up to a high status table and hassle one of the girls. There’s secretive weirdness, but nothing public unless hitting volcanic meltdown tier. In an open comment section, an animate turd can find the courage to lash out at its imagined oppressors. It can act out its fantasy of hassling the cool girls that left it with worn-out palms from hate-fantasizing. And yes, Gammas are disgusting enough to deserve every bit of the scorn and shunning they attract and more. As far as tells go, the oddly familiar tone indicates this particular creep feels it “knows” the HSF in some way. Some way meaning delusion bubble fixture. The acquaintance is obviously not mutual. This was the initial read. In the next post, we’ll see how subsequent facts confirmed this.
Edvard Munch, Jealousy, 1907, oil on canvas, Munch Museum, Oslo
My entry immediately changes the conversational dynamic by reasserting status boundaries. The Gamma desperately wants high-status social acceptance. It’s why they always come and pester their betters and never the other way around. A response - even hostile one - gives it the dopamine rush of high status engagement. At which point it can launch into whatever shuck and jive routine substitutes for an identity. Shutting it out while demeaning it to its now-disengaged fetish allows the world to see its impotent flailing. And status is in the eyes of others. Keep in mind that Gammas have no real social experience to back up their posturing. And Pedowood is a terrible source for real-life role models. Li’l Turdling couldn’t grasp that the females it hamsters over actually have developed. mature online social lives with online social groups. And that these come with codes and expectations to participate in, just like a team. When I encounter one I know in the wild, running off some worthless Gamma hounding her is as natural as it ever was.
The rest is for the next post. For this one, consider what the social groups are when assessing SSH. Patterns of interaction reveal the hierarchies. And shunning turds is the clearest demonstration of their own status to any group.