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Mile High Bear's avatar

The black leather jacket/Gibson Les Paul look is very cool. Very much looking forward to more greatness yet to come with SOULSIGMA. I'm sure we're also in for a treat when PSYKOSONIK releases more amazing stuff in the near future. Gratitude for all this wonderful art, both musically and visually, SDL.

Brian's avatar

Vox, are you a sigma or is it something you aspire to be? What is a sigma? What’s the best thing to be? – Sigma?

Vox Day's avatar

Yes. Read the site. There is no best, there is only what is.

Brian's avatar

Thank you. I got your book on this on Kindle recently and I’m starting to work through it.

Codex redux's avatar

"contra the near-universal assumption on the part of both men and women alike, they actually tend to be more independent, less insecure, and considerably less bitchy than the average woman."

It's a known-known that the worst bullies in schools were the ones just a step or two down from the top socially

That may where the near-universality comes from.

By the time the girl is is a woman, there's a quality of grace set into the lines of the body and the expression of the face, if the feminine character is there. The biology sets the ground floor, the breeding and the raising set the top.

Wonder if that separates the 7-8s from the 9-10s?

Snowyteller's avatar

Poor behaviour can ruin a genetic lottery win, so definitely a huge factor in the seperation.

Just take the simple thing of frowning for women or slouching for men.

Even with ludicrously good genetics, those behaviours carve a mark into the physical.

Or to put things another way, say a superior bloodline exists beyond compare.

Say this person spends most of their time stuffing their face with ice cream variant meals...

No amount of a good starting hand will escape folding under that pressure.

CecilRhodes's avatar

Just as Byron inspired Mary Shelley, and also spawned a new vampire genera, I hope your AI facilitates many legendary stories.

Auberon Quinn's avatar

They're waaay more secure. When I was fat(er) I would strike out with 5s and 6s but at least got a date with every 9 I asked.

Tom's avatar
21hEdited

W. B. Yeats acknowledged Byron as an influence.

Your points about Sigmas being outside of the hierarchy, brought Yeat's the Playboy of the Western World controversy to mind, and Yeat's response to his critics-

"Once, when midnight smote the air,

Eunuchs ran through Hell and met

On every crowded street to stare

Upon great Juan riding by:

Even like these to rail and sweat

Staring upon his sinewy thigh".

Which, granted, is different than Byron's version of Don Juan, but seems a very illustrative vignette of a certain status and mindset.

David H's avatar

While living in upstate, I had an art studio in a school owned by Richard MacKenzie-Childs. He had a magnificent library in his bedroom studio filled with art and a selection of immaculately crafted books. An entire section was filled with Byron's poetical works. I wish I could attach a photo, I took a few volumes and they're beautiful books.

Snowyteller's avatar

The thought came too on tangent from reading the piece, that another thing that marks a man that he is not a sigma, is that being surrounded by beauty at ease around you doesn't count for much if the reason is they think you're a lambda.

To be truly, utterly harmless without a single hint of possible danger and everyone knows it is arguably worse still.

The lambda as horrifically disordered as he is, is still a man.

To be a prop is even worse than a pet.

Both, beyond a loss of manhood are less than human.

Doktor Jeep's avatar

I'm speechless. 😐