Instincts are Not Learned Behavior

Correcting the erroneous impressions of those new to the SSH

The good news is that this site is in a growth phase.

The bad news is that this site is in a growth phase.

Sigma Game is presently averaging 6,000 more daily views than it was 30 days ago. 286 new subscribers have joined the community over the last 30 days, probably a few more than that, actually, since that’s the net increase and one has to assume that some previous subscribers stopped subscribing during that period.

The problem is twofold. First, the newcomers are not privy to most of what has been discussed previously, and second… you guessed it. Newcomers means new Gammas, which means commenters who are not only unaware of the traditions and social etiquette of this site, but are totally uninterested in respecting them.

Now, it was immediately obvious that there was likely going to be an issue with this gentleman commenting on a post from a few days ago, given his chosen moniker:

Bryce E. 'Esquire' Rasmussen, The Bryce Is Right

I'm a bit divided on Vance. Could be he played a weaker opponent to lure Zelensky in. Could be he was actually a bit weak in that situation. However it went, my immediate reaction was to think to myself "Keep an eye on this Vance guy. He seems to be learning pretty fast." A few more situations like this and he could turn Alpha.

I have a thoery. The various classifications for males ignores or is ignorant of something you touched on. That any male can step into the so called breach and change, become alpha or whatever is necessary to fulfill the obligations and needs of the situation. Maybe not every male, but a larger percentage than one might think.

It’s not as bad as calling oneself “Erasmus” or “Spinoza” or “Jordan B. Peterson” but the combination of the ‘Esquire’ with the wordplay and implication of his substack title already let’s us know what we’re almost certainly in for. It’s the first red flag.

The second red flag is his communication style. It’s not so much a monologue, which would be bad enough, as it is a dialogue with himself. Four self-references in two paragraphs isn’t too bad, but to announce a theory and then offer an unwanted “correction” that is obviously erroneous as well as ignorant of the basic concepts is unmistakeably Gamma. Indeed, the very post upon which he is commenting specifically describes how the Delta unsuccessfully filled his situational Bravo role.

The third red flag is the asinine failure to even grasp what he’s trying to correct. No one will ever “turn Alpha”. Behavioral patterns and instincts take years to form, and to the extent they can be altered at all, they take an even longer time to transform. Furthermore, the observed behavior was a complete failure on Vance’s part; he failed to fulfill his expected role and play his expected part.

Another commenter responded to the Esquire’s comment and attempted to simultaneously warn him and correct him.

Even if Vance was intentionally placed as the bait, he is still the bait, not Trump. He is only fulfilling the position correctly insofar as it would be necessary to match Zelensky in status, which is doubtful. There is no benefit to watching gamma squabbling while a war is going on. Try not to help. I am fairly new to VD's writing, but a consistent issue detailed in other posts covers this supposed hierarchical discrepancy. Your theory catches the SSH wrong, as a situational position is not reflective of a person's SSH class. That a large percentage of men may be elevated above their class is not indicative that doing so will move them out of their class.

But, as the SSH-aware here will already know, his effort was to no avail.

Well aware of that. Wasn’t aware I was helping. Expanding the theory. On a personal level why I said what I said was that my experience has taught me that classifications especially as regards the moribund psychology, are less than useless as well as being a control system.

People learn.

The way I have framed it on other media is that there are various angles that are fun to think about but largely unnecessary to consider. Was it staged or not? doesn’t matter. Was it heavily scripted? doesn’t matter? Is Vance the various class distinctions and sub groupings of sigma beta alpha gamma zippity doo dah or was he also playing a role? Doesn’t matter.

Two things matter. The story being told. The narrative and what strategies will accomplish what.

My perception of Vance is to keep an eye on him. He’s a young buck and sure, eager to go, needs a little experience. Most males have tons of potential and it doesn’t matter whether the social structure recognises them or not.

Nice to have the heads up on what you think I’m doing and being told what to think. Take it as you will.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we have a genuine, bona fide Smart Boy performing for us! Please clap.

He’s not helping, he’s just correcting our ignorance and expanding the theory. Which, by the way, is “less than useless as well as being a control system”.

This is exactly the sort of thing that Zelensky was doing. It’s the classic Gamma tactic of incoherently machine-gunning rhetoric in the hopes of triggering a reaction that will let him regain his desired frame of Superior Knowledge; the Gamma must always be the corrector and never the corrected no matter how obviously and observably wrong he is.

Of course, once Gammas go into this mode, they tend to expose themselves on every side. For example, his statement that “people learn”. Yes, they do learn, sometimes, but most people are idiots and are also, as Aristotle taught us, incapable of learning from information. More importantly, no one, be he inclined toward dialectic or rhetoric, is capable of learning his instincts or his behavioral pattern. Not being conscious phenomena, they are not learned so much as they are instilled and engraved upon our psyches by the combination of our genetics, our upbringing, and our experiences.

This is the one key thing that I would like newcomers to the Socio-Sexual Hierarchy to understand. The SSH ranks, or types, are instinctive behavioral patterns. They are based on the externally-observed collection of things that you naturally do and say without conscious thought or intentionality. And while you can learn to control your behavior and how your instincts influence that behavior, you cannot control what the instincts that underlie your behavior happen to be any more than an alcoholic who has been sober for years can eliminate the underlying temptation and threat that alcohol poses for him.

The Gamma is the man who would lecture the Buddha on enlightenment.