SIGMA GAME: Introduction

An excerpt from the new #1 bestseller

So the long-awaited SSH book has gotten off to an excellent start, in no small part thanks to the support of the readers of this site.

• #1 in Business Leadership

• #1 in Business Teams

• #1 in Social Theory

These are odd little categories, but it’s also #9 in Business and Investing, which is a major category, so it’s been about as successful as I anticipated it would be. Like SJWs Always Lie, it’s likely to remain relevant for a much longer period of time than a work focused on current events does, and with the additional advantage of utilizing the favored nomenclature; SJWAL would probably have continued to sell strongly in recent years if the media terminology hadn’t shifted from “social justice” to the more nebulous “woke”.

In any event, the ebook has gone out to all of the backers of the print editions, and I hope to see more Amazon ratings and reviews join the two that have already been posted; one of the most useful things you can do to support a book or an author is to provide even a brief one-sentence review because the algorithm takes these things into account. And remember, the only two ratings that actually matter are 5-star = read, 1-star = don’t read. The algorithm doesn’t care about your personal theory of book review stars.

I’m aware of the issue where the background shows up gray in dark mode. I’ll look into that today and will attempt to put the fix in the 002 update that should go up later today or tomorrow.

For those who haven’t picked up a copy of the ebook or audiobook yet, perhaps the Introduction will convince you of the wisdom of doing so.

INTRODUCTION

Imagine you had the ability to correctly predict the actions of other men. Imagine that you had the ability to know what people were going to do before they did it, and say before they said it. And suppose that you could anticipate these things without even knowing the other people very well.

It would be like having a superpower, wouldn’t it?

Unlike the abilities of Superman or Spider-man, this particular superpower is absolutely achievable. All it requires is the mastery of something called “the Socio-Sexual Hierarchy” combined with the patience to observe others long enough to correctly determine their place within the relevant hierarchy.

There is nothing magic or esoteric about the Hierarchy. You will not find it in any professional peer-reviewed study published in a reputable science journal. But it is based on a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, and either falsified or confirmed, by anyone with the courage and the honesty to be objective and observe what he sees happening, both right in front of him and around him on every side.

That scientific hypothesis is this: the normal behavior of the human male consists of a limited series of recognizable patterns.

It’s not necessary to accept that hypothesis in order to learn the basics of the hierarchy and learn how to utilize the principles derived from them. All that is necessary at this point is to understand what the SSH hypothesis is and possess the willingness to test it for yourself as well as utilize it for your own personal benefit.

Now, at this point the skeptical reader might reasonably wonder why he should pay any attention to anything I have to say about women, human behavior, male social status, or matters of sexual hierarchy. This isn’t a recognizable science, not yet, anyhow, and there are no professional published peer-reviewed studies to cite. So what are my credentials? Where are my degrees?

It’s probably worth noting at this point that I am, among other things, an author of bestselling science books. Two of my recent works, Probability Zero and The Frozen Gene are at the leading edge of the human evolution and population genetics fields, so you can safely assume that I understand the basics of modern science. I have been a bestselling political philosopher for more than a decade, and recently constructed an effective new epistemology called Veriphysics. I have successfully solved both the Euthyphro Dilemma and the Agrippan Trilemma, and have authored over thirty science, economics, and philosophy papers.

In sum, my intellect is a much more relevant credential here than my degrees in Economics and East Asian Studies.

I should also mention that I am happily married to a beautiful Norwegian girl who picked me up at a bar in Minneapolis one night and whose grey-blue eyes have captivated me ever since. She is considered by many to be sufficient cause to be reason to assume a) I know what I’m doing and b) the intrinsic unfairness of life. Imagine Sandra Bullock had a prettier younger sister with long blonde hair who was a fitness model and you’ve pretty much got the picture.

I am also the Original Sigma. Which is to say that I am the individual responsible for coining the term Sigma Male sixteen years ago, a neologism which has since gone massively viral around the world, much to the dismay of every feminist, male and female, in the media. The very concept of the Sigma Male, along with the Socio-Sexual Hierarchy of which it is a small part, is quite literally the product of my mind. If you’re familiar with the term Sigma, or Gamma, or midwit, then you are already utilizing the very words I coined and concepts I created.

If all of that is enough to convince you that I have some idea of what I’m talking about, great. But if you’re not willing to accept that yet, that’s absolutely fine. The concepts that I’m explaining here do not rest upon any appeals to any authority except your own ability to observe the behavior of the men and women around you.

Here’s the one thing I hope you will keep in mind as you read this book. You don’t need to accept anything I tell you in this book at face value, anything at all. You don’t need to believe one single thing I say about myself, my past, male-female relations, social interactions, male hierarchies, or behavioral patterns if you feel the need to be skeptical about any or all of those things. Everything I’m going to tell you about hierarchy, status, and behavioral patterns are all real and material things that I have observed in the wild.

And they are all things that you can readily observe and confirm for yourself.

That last point matters far more than my résumé, because unlike a disturbing amount of what passes for modern science these days, the SSH is not a theory that requires you to take anyone’s word for it. It is an intrinsically objective structure, which, among other things, means your opinion about your own place in the social hierarchy is almost certainly the opinion that matters least. There is no good or bad here, no virtue or vice or morality derived from being prone toward one behavioral pattern instead of another. There is only what happens to be objectively observable in social interactions. That’s all that matters.

This brings me to the single most important piece of advice I can give you before we begin: it serves absolutely no purpose to identify yourself in some manner that you think is better somehow or higher up the hierarchy. You will derive far more benefit from reading this book if you set yourself aside for the time being while you focus on learning the core concepts of the socio-sexual hierarchy and understanding its wide range of applications than you will by folding, spindling, and redefining the concepts in order to persuade yourself that you might be something you’re not.

Remember, absolutely no one cares what you think you are. No one thinks about you anywhere nearly as much as you think about what they might be thinking about you.

Seriously, if you find yourself thinking “yeah, but what am I?” then you are not in the right frame of mind to get the most out of what this book can provide you. Just set yourself aside for the duration. You’ll still be you when you finish. As with most things, you’ve got to learn the material before you can successfully apply it.

There are positives and negatives to every aspect of the hierarchy. Consider the way in which Alphas reliably rule the roost, and yet the world in which they live is one of constant conflict, external focus, and endless status testing. For all that other men envy them, most would actually find the daily life of an Alpha to be exhausting and unpleasant. The Sigma is perceived to be cool, and indeed, his disinterested detachment from normal society has served as the basis for more than a few famous movie icons. But Sigmas usually acquire their outsider status the hard way, as one seldom becomes immune to social pressure by virtue of great popularity in one’s youth.

On the flip-side, even the most socially-challenged Omega possesses two things every Alpha can only envy: complete freedom from social responsibilities and the ability to do whatever he wants whenever he wants to do it without suffering much in the way of interference from others.

The most important thing to keep in mind as you read this book is that you cannot expect to improve your chances of success in the social game of life if you begin by attempting to deceive yourself about where you stand vis-a-vis everyone else around you.