The Gamma Rage Trigger

A demonstration of the extreme emotional sensitivity of the Gamma

We talked about Delta narcissism last week. Now let’s contemplate the Gamma variety, which is far more sensitive and can be triggered by even the slightest hint of rejection by any woman or higher-status male.

I’ve been a public figure for a long time. Beginning with my weekly column in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, which was featured on the front page of the Tech section and sported a headshot of me at the top, followed by national syndication of that column in 13 newspapers that included the Atlanta Journal/Constitution, the Boston Globe, and the San Jose Mercury News, in addition to feature pieces in Computer Gaming World and Electronic Entertainment, people have been paying attention to what I say on one platform or another since 1994.

And, of course, taking shots at me, although I didn’t receive my first death threats until 2001.

So, I’m not only accustomed to praise and criticism, but after 30 years, I am pretty well inured to both and mostly uninterested in hearing either. Over time, it gradually became undeniable that both criticism and praise alike tend to say far more about the individual bestowing it than it does about my work, let alone my self.

This is not to say no criticism nor praise is valid, you understand, just that it’s seldom very well-informed or even relevant to me. So, I’m simply not interested in paying attention to criticism or would-be correction from the usual sort of drive-by reader who is most likely to provide it, and experience has taught me that there is absolutely no point whatsoever in engaging in online debate with commenters.

I presently have 35,200 followers on Gab, and in the hopes of dissuading at least a few of the usual suspects, I pinned this advisory to the top of my account there a few years ago.

FAIR WARNING: All shills, gammas, retards, critics, pedants, and social justice warriors are muted and blocked on sight. I am not interested in debate, discourse, or "ackshually" in this medium. If you disagree with what I post, that's absolutely fine, but please note that I am not at all interested in hearing your opinions, corrections, or criticisms. Utilize your own microphone. I will not permit you to attempt to hijack or parasitize mine.

In other words, go ahead and criticize what I’ve posted all you like, but do it in your own space. Don’t bring it to my attention or post it in my timeline. I’m not interested, I won’t read it, and I won’t respond to it, so don’t bother. This is perfectly fine with most people, and it’s observably unobjectionable to the tens of thousands of people who follow me, but, as you might expect, it is like waving a red flag in front of a very angry bull for a certain SSH behavioral profile when they happen to come across a post of mine.

Gammas. The Gammas take the idea that you are not interested in their Very Important Opinions very, very poorly indeed. They view your lack of interest in their opinions as an insult, a rejection, and a public declaration of their inferiority all rolled into one. They are so sensitive that even the slightest hint of rejection feels to them as if salt is being poured into their psychological wounds.

This is what rejection feels like to a Gamma.

By way of example, here are just a few of the reactions to absolutely nothing more than coming across the four sentences quoted above:

• fuck you block me too! You’re nothing but an angry democrat. Go back to facefuck creep!

• FUCK YOU DOUCHEBAG! BLOCK!

• But if you don't care to listen to other people's opinions and views then how can you have any of your own? Did all your opinions just pop into your head one day? You didn't get get them from reading books or watching documentaries or listening to people debate and argue on issues? They just came to you in a dream or something and they are there to stay and can never change?

• Damn, you Low -T beta’s are hard-up for a hERO! LARPing posturing, nothing more. Tyranny is not troubled, concerned, or fearful in the least. And as always, the swill is frenetically consumed by the deluded, Kool-Aid gorging, masses of pathological gullibility.

• hot DAMN tamale, YOU sound like a raging closeted homo fucking PUSSY.🤣🤣🤣🤣

• ....arrogance extreme.

• I'll save you the trouble. I'll block you first, asshole.

• In other words, you fear a challenge that might change your view on how everything works. That's what an open forum is for. To challenge other views than your own and discuss intelligently what is different to see whether or not your view or other views may be in error. Yes?

• I have no idea who you are lol

• Block me next faggot

• This makes you sound weak.

• I don’t even know who you are but you sure sound like a faggot to me.

• “I won’t tolerate any of those hurty words!!! I can’t deal with the emotional fallout that comes from any criticism of my opinions!”

• Jesus…. I feel like I just caught AIDS from your weak ass gab flex.

• Writers from Teen Vogue have thicker skin than you do faggot.

This might have been my favorite response, given the way it, in combination with the responder’s self-description, perfectly demonstrates textbook Gamma incoherence and a flawless delusion bubble.

1. You’re getting dragged lmao.

2. I'm caustic and abrasive. Just letting you know before you read any further. "The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself."~Augustine of Hippo. Have primary sources to support your claims or stfu.

Notice how criticism, or “getting dragged”, is assumed to be a big deal and to render one worthy of being laughed at, and is presumably something to be avoided at all costs. There is also the customary posturing about being amused rather than angry. But even more informative is the incongruity between the public posture that affects higher-status indifference and the reality of the Gamma’s desperate need to seek validation by others.

Now contemplate the extreme insecurity and the amount of constant rage that must be constantly bubbling below the surface every day in the individual who is capable of reacting to someone else’s indifference to his opinion in such an unrestrained manner. Even taking into account the way in which the anonymity of being online tends to encourage behavioral extremes, there has to be a disturbingly high level of underlying sensitivity and anger in order for it to be publicly expressed in this manner in response to such a minor and impersonal provocation.

Every Gamma is a rage-volcano just waiting for the right trigger to erupt.

This, I suspect, is why women react to Gammas with horror, contempt, and disgust, and why they are so drawn to men who are cool and indifferent. Their reactions are based on instinctive fear of the bubbling emotional heat of the former while they feel safe and relaxed in the proximity of a man they sense will be able to handle their potential rejection with equanimity.

Imagine being a pretty woman who is all-too-aware of the rage-volcano just waiting to erupt in her face at the first moment of disappointment or disinterest. Wouldn’t you want to stay literal miles away from any man who showed signs of that constantly-boiling anger inside him? Wouldn’t you want to avoid any possibility that sooner or later you’re going to inadvertently trigger those exposed sensitivities and focus that bitterness and rage upon yourself?

This line of thought suggests something that we already know, but underlines its importance. To raise your perceived SSH rank, you must learn to restrain and tame your emotions to the point that they are virtually undetectable by others. This is not because there is anything wrong with having emotions, since everyone does, but because the control over them it demonstrates makes you an intrinsically more reliable, and therefore, inherently more valuable, man in the eyes of other men and women alike.