The Missing Alphas
Where are tomorrow's leaders?
There have been a number of theories about the rise of the Gamma male over the last three generations and the concomitant disappearance of the Alphas that used to rise to the top and provide their vision and leadership in the service of their various organizations. I don’t think there is just one answer, I think there are several answers, that, in combination, suffice to explain why modern society is mired in mediocrity.
Feminism and the rise of credentialism. The transformation of the university demographic has been astonishing. From negligible numbers in 1960s to nearly two-thirds majority in the 2020s, women have taken over higher education and eliminated its function. Being completely converged, it no longer serves its purpose of educating society’s future leaders and preparing them for their responsibilities, it’s now just a credential mill for midwits and worse to be provided make-work jobs and serve as a faux elite that will do whatever it is told.
Diversity and social atomism. The more diverse the society, the more people stay at home and avoid socializing. The black block party, the white suburban barbeque, the men’s club, the Junior League, all these ad hoc organizations are largely a thing of the past due to the demographic changes combined with the legal elevation of equality and the demise of the right to free association. A potential leader can’t lead a nonexistent organization to which he doesn’t belong. Even the organized churches are dying.
The GATE/Epstein/gangstalker phenomenon. Young men of potential are identified early and then either sidetracked, controlled, or eliminated before they can rise along the probable trajectory of their lives. This probably goes too far into the conspiracy zone for most people, but it’s not a coincidence that the sort of self-righteous losers who attend Mock UN and student-leadership conferences are actually being put in charge of major corporations, resource-rich NGOs, and other organizations they manifestly have no business running. No wonder nothing works anymore.
The technological distraction. Between video games, weed, and pornography, young men simply don’t have the burning desire to succeed that they once did. Mediocrity is much more pleasant now, and much more personally satisfying, than it ever used to be. Why bother working hard to buy a nice car when you can drive a better one for free in a racing game any time you want? Pleasure on-demand is inevitably demotivational and debilitating.
I’m sure there are other reasons. But just these four should be more than enough to explain the disappearance of the Alpha males. Ironically, the constant abuse of men is having the beneficial effect of inoculating the younger men to the social pressures imposed by the first two causes.
These things are cyclical, so we’ve probably already bottomed out in this regard. Certainly the young men now appear to have a steel in them that has been lacking since the Boomer generation. Hard times have a way of doing that.
Rising within an organization is nearly impossible if you are an alpha. I work for a global IT firm (150,000 employees), and the new co-CEO is a woman in her early 30ies. When she introduced herself in an all-employee call, I thought this was an out of season April fools' joke, as she is clearly retarded and not qualified with barely half a decade of work experience in marketing. You will not believe the Schadenfreude that I will have when they figure out that the Chinese don’t care for these foolish games and just eat western companies lunch.
In democracies, ostracism was formalized to preserve political equality (isonomia) by banishing someone who seemed likely to prevail too much over others.
This explains alot especially for alphas