Time is "Money"

High Status Disinterest & Projected Delusion in Life & Lies

James Holland, The Sedan Chair, 1865, watercolor on paper, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

It’s like they’re not even there…

Picking up from last time. How high status socialization is inverted in the House of Lies. The take-away - high status patterns extend from high honest self-valuation and high character, meaning exclusivity is intrinsic. No matter how extroverted. It’s just finite social bandwidth - too many options and only so many hours in the day.

Anecdote - one of my two lifetime best friends was apex Alpha. For personal reasons. Each other’s “only guy I’ve ever met who really got me”. Socially we were really different though. In hindsight, access to his perspective made him the most important person in my own social development. But the point here is that even the most socially driven person I know had more demands on his time and attention than he could possibly meet. Secondary and tertiary circles were endless. Post-college, Eight New Year’s Party Invitation Eve comes to mind. So something obvious…

The higher your status, the more precious your social time.

Nothing profound or personal, just basic supply and demand. And the higher your status, the more attractive the offers. This conditions a reflexive world view. Should be obvious, but inverting Alphas is ground zero of mainstream high status inversion.

Riccardo Meacci, To Arms, before 1938, watercolor on paper, private collection

It’s fascinating how instinctive Alphas are. They assume social reality will just bend how they want because it generally does. People compete for their attention, so they get everyone’s best. Their presence raises energy levels, juicing social events before saying a word. Every musing attracts volunteer wingmen. Anything not to their liking is rectified. Easy to see why they’re psychic poison to the insecure, no matter how objectively beneficial. Gamma Cratchit hates Scrooge even more for the feast and the blank check for Tim’s health care … he’s rubbing it it. Mrs. Cratchit probably wants to sleep with him. The kids love so much, why don’t they go live with him… But Alphas are tremendous friends if you know who you are and can hold your boundaries and ego integrity. And priceless learning experiences for a read and react outlier. Jealousy and resentment were never an issue - high status men don’t befriend people they feel negatively about. Or engage in fawning one-sided relationships out of neediness. The ocean between his need for constant stimulation and mine for lots of solitude made the thought of being him horrifying. What it did was realize my potential and teach me my limits. Occasional compromise was hardly a price. A high status process:

• His loyalty and overall quality as a friend were unparalleled.

• My social profile took a totally different life path because of his friendship.

• I owe him respect in addition to amity.

Apex Alphas are like top-tier women. They know how attractive they are because they hear and live it constantly. What they want in their intimate relationships is normalcy. Keep being the dude that they like being around. Star-struck keeps you at a distance as much as resentment. If they’re calling you it’s because you occupy the social position of [friend], [lover], whatever. A major benefit of honest self-valuation is behaving consistently even when emotionally stimulated. It’s just frame in Game terms, nothing esoteric. Something anyone can practice until it becomes natural. Externally it reads as confidence, stability, and self-possession though. The Alpha or the 9 notice and appreciate it. Remember, highest status in a social ecosystem = most valuable time. Making them the last people willing to waste it on things they dislike.

Daniel Gerhartz, Her Reading Room, oil on linen, private collection. It’s ok to leave her alone for a bit…

Quick dismissal of things not worth their time is something to keep in mind when we hit the media inversion where high status cares about low. It’s low status projection to assume the high status patterns and reactions resemble their own. The last post traced out how the two world views are totally different. High status people tend to think wasting social time on detritus is retarded, if they consider it at all. Stuff like “hate watching” make the low status seem like a different species. Try and imagine a way to declare your time less valuable. I suppose cortisol works as a drug if it’s all you can afford. It’s obviously best to live clean, but if you must, I’ve found dopamine to be a lot more enjoyable. Like the Cuervo Gold and fine Colombian vs. the tube of Testor’s and a plastic bag. If you must.

Stills from Ghostbusters, Ivan Reitman, ditector; Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis & Rick Moranis, writers, Columbia Pictures, 1984

It’s impossible to convey how contemptible appeals to mass-culture social fear boogiemen are are to those who disdain low culture. On the internet, it signifies like a literal retard banging on pots and pans in the middle of a chamber music recital. But here’s another high status pattern - once the thorn is pulled, it’s gone. The Gamma is forgotten like the countless other blips that don’t register psycho-socially in a life overflowing with them. Unless it’s sufficiently amusing to return as a humorous story. Remember the Halloween party when [X] threw that loser out off the front deck while wearing a Superman costume..? On the internet, the occasional Gamma meltdown reaches self-parodic Valhalla. Otherwise, you don’t even remember encounters when someone brings them up. The tactics are bizarre as well. Projected insecurity and herd dependence is supposed to... do what exactly?

High status irritation with an online Gamma has little to do with what specific nonsense they’re blathering. It’s that they’re there at all. Hence expulsion, not engagement. Abundance/scarcity. When randos are a dime a dozen, they’re fog in the wind. Epic moments are remembered because they’re scarce. And time is precious.

Mary Cassatt, Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge, 1879, oil on canvas , Philadelphia Museum of Art. We can be confident she isn’t preoccupied with what the third blob on the right thinks. No matter how deep his love.

For the Gamma, it’s dead opposite. Fear of conflict and expulsion bring night sweats in ways a high status person can’t fathom. Gamma delusion gets the attention, but Gamma projection is what makes it social. It’s the exact opposite of my observe, read, react process. Make up an incoherent fake inner reality, pretend it’s what everyone else thinks and sees, and act as if it’s true. Leading some recurring inverted assumptions.

1. That the self-defining hatred they feel for the high status is reciprocal.

Projected delusion - they hate me as much as I hate them. Why else would they inflict such unjust pain. Besides, if they didn’t, it would raise uncomfortable questions about relative status.

Reality - high status people neither have nor want a clue who they are. I don’t care for him personally, but Connor McGregor’s “who the fook is that guy?” response to someone yapping at a press conference nails it.

[Note on mockery. High status people have high expectations for each other. When you do something stupid, weak, or self-indulgent and it self-detonates in predictable ways, you hear it. Disincentivizes repeat performance].

William Powell Frith, The Rejected Poet, 1851, oil on canvas, Aukland City Art Gallery, New Zealand

2. That the trauma inflicted on them was deliberate and gleeful.

Projected delusion - it must be, given the active motivating hatred in 1. No other reason is needed. In media, high status people can be shown as aggressively psychopathic with no suspension of disbelief.

Reality - taking out the trash is regular household chore. No one remembers or cares about that one Hefty bag from ‘21.

3. That the high status acknowledge them as their enemies.

Projected delusion - 1 and 2 mean an active feud between “equal” parties

Reality - “Who the fook is that guy?” Connor McGregor. It can be adorable in kids though. It just doesn’t magically become more real because adulthood…

Boy in a walker with paper hat swinging wooden sword, 1870–1900, postcard, Boston Public Library; Auguste Leroux, illustration 70 of 200 in Mémoires de Casanova, Javal et Bourdeaux edition in ten volumes, 200 images, 1931

4. That the high status are fake or unworthy

Projected delusion - since they’re evil villains that don’t recognize real kingship, they can’t be on top by merit. They have to be hypocritical frauds, or brownnosers, or benefitting unfairly in some other way.

Reality - [high status] = [high honest self-worth] + [high character] + [high competence]

There no way to fix this without graduating Gamma. It’s too tied into the fundamental essence of the profile. And the [tragic victims of cruel frauds] phantasy is a balm. Low status goes from real fruits of their own obnoxiousness to “injustice”. Pathological envy of the guys and unrequited lust for the girls ramps up because it’s “deserved”. Amusing, until Gammas are empowered by the House of Lies to write your cultural mythologies. Coming to Exhibit A for why high status patterns can seem so shocking. Total inversion of high status socialization in mass culture.

The fractitype confuses the two status metrics from the last post - socio-economic and character. A lot of the socio-economic upper class are third-rate lottery winners with exclusionary imprinting who don’t “deserve” it.

Samuel Henry Alken, Drags of the Four-in-Hand Club Passing Five Bells Tavern, before 1894, oil on canvas, Denver Art Museum, Caddyshack, 1980, Harold Ramis, director; Brian Doyle-Murray, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, writers, Warner

Confusing this with confident, appealing, high-character people deceptively aims resentment for the former at the latter.

Qualifier. There’s obviously too much variety in cinema for universal generalization. High status behavior is accurately reflected in countless films from The Seven Samurai to Dazed and Confused. We’re talking about a subgroup with outsized influence because it’s aimed at a young demographic without the life experience to know better. A vast number of “teen” and “college” [they’re the same] comedies and dramas with the same recurring fractitypes.

• Conventionally good-looking, popular, affluent, high status people or groups as cartoonishly evil villains.

• Low-status shlubs [Gamma, low Delta, Omega] as deserving heroes in no way responsible for their situations.

• Romance between a top tier female from 1 and 2, once she sees his inner light.

The low-status nature of this thinking is clear in the resentment for betters, easy acceptance of mediocrity, lack of accountability, and dependence on dumb luck. The last is especially tragic for low-to-middling young males in a challenging world. It’s r-selected to the bone. Another reason high-status people limit media time is that it’s not aimed at them.

The Threefold Demon, or Envy, Hatred, and Malice, engraving in Religious Emblems and Allegories by William Holmes, William Tegg, 1868.

Understand what Pedowood narrative actually is. Projected Gamma delusion masquerading as a mirror of reality and packaged for commercial appeal to low-status consoomers. I’m not wasting my own valuable time gathering links. TVTropes has tons of them, starting with a biggie - popularity is evil. It’s incoherent, considering there is no popularity without appeal. The low status confuse their vision of “success” - getting money or gold stars - with attraction. Makes sense - they’ve never experienced it and the Gammas hate it. But there’s more. Consider how cringe and retarded the jocks/nerds trope is IRL, and you understand the level of fear that pervades the Gamma psyche. To the point where inversive fantasy poses believable threats. It has to. Threats mean they’re worth notice. Unpredictable, violent psychopaths in this trope don’t have to play sportsball. There are females too. What matters is the propensity for sadism and institutional permission to commit crimes for no reason at all.

Heroes are eternally popular. Prior to peak clown, Pedowood used hero stories to slide social engineering into NPC upload DMs for decades. Understanding the consoomer side is easy. They’re defined by protoplasm-tier accountability and self-mastery. All they need is a hospitable agar-like environment a narrative that confirms what they’ve been taught to expect. In a hero story, “the good guy” needs to win with current year moral dogmas. And “the bad guy” has to resonate emotionally as repulsive so the ’plasm can emotionally invest in his comeuppance. Basic low status social assumptions can’t be undermined or it gets discomfiting. You can’t lose playing to non-pathological low status resentment. And that correlates with general dissatisfaction arising from their self-limits. Here are a few big attitudes and their outcomes.

Low honest self worth

Self-limit - scarcity mentality and timid acceptance

Cope - They’re mothing special - moral creeps gaming the system

Enrique Chagoya, The Seven Deadly Sins: Sloth, 2020, acrylic and water mixable oil with glass eyes collaged on canvas

Sloth

Self-limit - inability to improve materially or intellectually

Cope - They just got lucky

Psychic weakness

Self-limit - avoiding unpleasant realities precludes learning and growth through mistakes

Cope - The whole game is rigged against “the little guy”. Note that the Gamma can never turn to this one. They pretend they’re the nerd-rapist in the story.

The active delusion bubble isn’t there, but dishonest situational copes and victim narratives abound. If an instinctive villain is needed, successful good looking people are an easy sell. Of course, frittering life away fixating on others is a low-status trademark. And tube is fixating on imaginary others.

The Gammas projecting the inversion are different. Next post. For now, treat your time like its worth something and others will start to as well.

Jules Leroy, Playtime, before 1921, oil on canvas