Uncle John explores the psychology of the high-status man and reaches some intriguing and informative conclusions:
Speaking bluntly about status - or anything related to self-respect and accountability - is a high status communication pattern. To those used to feelings and dreams over reality, it can sound harsh or derisive. Stating hard realities often gets taken personally by the lower status, with Gamma triggering at the extreme. So bluntly, this isn’t moral judgment in the deontological sense. There is a moral dimension - Beauty and Good connect if you go high enough - but that’s more abstract. My contempt comes from disrespect more than moral abhorrence. High status social practices aren’t soft or self-indulgent.
Observation: high-status people understand their value to the point of erring on the side of overvaluing it.
An entire high status persona comes from one simple attitude towards yourself. And it extends socially because it’s intolerable to be too close to people that aren’t.
Social status is the honest external manifestation of internal status.
Internal status sounds oxymoronic. Status as a concept is implicitly relational - relative to some other person or group of people. A hierarchical continuum. That’s what makes it easy to see socially. But other than the possessed, internal worlds are singular. Internal status has to be [degree of realizable self-valuation] relative to the general population. Realizable meaning the fruits – your real social presence in word and deed. This isn’t Gamma delusion. It’s honest - the proper alignment between high self-worth and high character. The extent to which self-worth is backed up externally as confidence, competence, honor, and so forth. It’s qualitative, but who cares? So is human experience. High inner status - high honest self-respect and valuation - is visible in the certainty and tranquility that comes from harmonizing life and values.
This link between internal self-regard and external social status is integral to understanding the massive gulf that separates the Alpha from the Omega. It explains why Gammas inflate their Delusion Bubbles and cling to them in the hopes that their manifestly faux self-regard will somehow translate into the external status for which they hunger.
It even explains the psychological means with which Gammas invariably employ to attack higher-status men to no avail and why those Alphas and Sigmas are immune to those attacks.
You cannot fake genuinely high self-regard, which should never be confused with narcissism, solipsism, or childish self-centeredness. The self-regard of which Uncle John speaks is not only real, it is firmly based in material foundations.
Achilles knows he is unvanquishable in battle. Ulysses knows he is more clever than anyone else. Agamemnon knows he is king and he knows his rights as king. Ajax knows he is strong. Their high self-regard is mirrored by the regard in which they are held by others.
Only the mediocre are modest about their abilities. The tall man knows he is tall. The brilliant man knows he is brilliant. Even the beautiful woman knows she is beautiful; the idea that she is beautiful because she doesn’t know she is beautiful is nonsensical pop music retardery, not genuine philosophy.
Everyone else in the room can see it.
Everyone else but you.
You don't know, oh-oh, you don't know you're beautiful.
Oh-oh-oh. That's what makes you beautiful.
There are, in the end, only three realistic vehicles for improving one’s external social status.
Deceit
Material Accomplishment
Developing High Self-Regard
The challenge, of course, is that while (3) looks easy enough, it is actually very, very difficult, arguably more difficult than option (2), and is virtually impossible in the absence of (2). But it can’t be faked, any more than the attainment of Nirvana can be faked by the unenlightened. Because while the excellent recognize their own excellence, so too does the mediocrity recognize his own mediocrity, if only in the deepest, darkest crevices of his self-awareness.
If Friedrich Nietszche, the most Gamma of all the great philosophers, had truly believed himself to be that which he publicly professed himself to be, the incongruity between what he professed and what he knew to be true would not have driven him mad.
Yeah, Nietzsche was just bad. Your comments about status are valid, you may choose to not value status, but status will determine your social value.
I recommend getting over pursuing it for its own sake, but never ignore that it is real and affects your life.
What a bomb about Nietzsche!