Solipsism Prevents Understanding

If you're confusing basic patterns, you're missing more than just a point

One of the things that never ceases to amaze me is the inability of normal people to see the behaviors that are right in front of them every single day. Even when they have been educated to some extent in the Socio-Sexual Hierarchy, they make fundamental mistakes that demonstrate how they have failed to grasp even the most basic concepts involved.

On Social Galactic recently, I saw someone comment on what they felt was the most Gamma song of all time. Expecting to see something by Radiohead or Robert Smith, I was astonished to see them name “Animals” by Maroon 5 as this supposedly Gamma song. The reason I was so surprised is that “Animals” is an Alpha song actually written by an Alpha, as opposed to all of those that are written by women about Alphas.

Neil Gaiman notwithstanding, the wolf is not a symbol of the Gamma.

So how is such a complete misunderstanding possible? Then I realized that the commenter was looking at how the songwriter identified himself as a predator, and since there has been so much discussion of Gamma predation in the context of the ongoing Neil Gaiman allegations, he blithely assumed that any mention of predatory behavior was therefore indicative of Gamma.

In support of this explanation was the next commenter, who brought up Sting, and his song with the Police, “Every Breath You Take”.

Now, the first obvious point is that neither Adam Levine nor Sting are Gammas. Both are clear and obvious Alphas, socially and sexually dominant, with beautiful wives, and entirely comfortable with their success.

Sting. This is definitely not a portrait of a Gamma.

The Police song is definitely about a Gamma. It’s an ominous song about a stalker, but Sting’s perspicacity shows in the way how, even in the absence of any knowledge about the SSH, the song presents deceptively as a love song. It demonstrates the way that high-status men are able to recognize the way low-status men go about pursuing the female objects of their obsession.

The Maroon 5 song, on the other hand, is an Alpha ode to female sexuality. He’s stalking her, only to discover that he isn’t necessarily as in control of his own actions as he’d like to think. It’s an actively anti-romantic song which demonstrates the Alpha lack of concern about female inexperience that obsesses Deltas and Gammas alike.

Yeah, you can start over, you can run free

You can find other fish in the sea

You can pretend it's meant to be

But you can't stay away from me

That confidence and indifference about involvements with other men is not even remotely compatible with any low-status perspective. But the conclusive and quintessentially Alpha statement is this single line:

You can pretend that it was me, but no

Low-status men always want to believe that a woman’s sexuality exists only in response to them. Time and time again, we’ve heard of both Deltas and Gammas raging in their grief over their belated discovery that the sinless and untouched object of their singular obsession is, in the words of that great American philosopher Britney Spears, “not that innocent”.

Whenever you hear a man waxing eloquent about all women being whores, you know you’re dealing with a Gamma whose illusions were shattered by a young woman at one point in his life. To the low-status man, all women who find any pleasure in sex for its own sake are “whores”.

Not so the Alpha. Alphas revel in female sexuality for its own sake, to the point that they deny their own connection to it. That’s what the line means, that’s why the song was given its name in the first place. The songwriter is telling the woman that their strong sexual connection is neither unique nor spiritual, but rather primal, and, on her part, inherent to her.

And, of course, it’s part of what draws him to her so powerfully. It’s probably not a coincidence that this is the one song that features Levine’s wife, a former Victoria’s Secret model, in the video.

How does solipsism relate to this? Because the misunderstanding, which verges on the comical, is entirely based upon looking at a situation from one’s own perspective rather than looking at it sympathetically from the relevant perspective, which in this case is from the songwriter’s perspective.

The simple mention of predation means nothing in itself; Gammas never regard themselves as predators, but rather, as heroes, saviors, rescuers, and knights in shining armor. Wolves, to the contrary, are the the bad boys, the Hollywood villains from whom the Gamma has to save the girl, and in doing so, win her everlasting and undying love in an instant.

Neil Gaiman might view wish to view himself as a wolf, but even then, it is only the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood, a wolf who preys upon little girls, not grown women, and has to rely upon disguise in order to do so. That’s miles apart from the howling glee in the primordial mutual hunt described by Levine in “Animals”.