What's an alpha male anyway

>The Aeneid
My brother in Virgil, that was propaganda for the Roman state.

>>25214165
And? Everything that isn't a STEM textbook is a kind of propaganda.

>>25214224
Firstly, I said it was propaganda for the Roman state. My point is that Virgil was not creating his own propaganda, he was repeating the party line (no discredit to him, he probably faced death otherwise).

Secondly, STEM is also propaganda. Maths, the "purest" subject, is propaganda. Curricula are propaganda precisely because they tell us what society deems important (or what society ought to deem important). Why did the ancients study geometry? It served a political purpose (agriculture). Why do we study compound interest and calculus? The former "legitimizes" finance, the latter is useful in engineering/ballistics (which is useful for war). Admittedly, most mathheads are far happier solving pointless puzzles with no real applications, but the pesky elites who develop curricula want "applications" to be taught as well, s.m.h. my head.

>t. studied maths

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>>25214134
Supposedly, according to made up incel theories, the alpha/beta/sigma male is a categorization of men taken straight from observing a pack of wolves (the most referenced study is that of wolfs in captivity) and other speices, the common tldr is that the alpha is at the top and he gets all the bitches and is the strongest and whatever, the beta is a subordinate loser of some kind, and sigma is whatever the internet means when saying that word.
In reality humans don't really behave like a pack of wolves, not to mention how the whole concept is retarded and effectively has no proof, in some species the actual "alpha" could also be female and most of the time it's not like a chief of some sort who gets to call all the shots, rather they could manage resources and were actually shown to be more involved in grooming and so forth, not to mention how a beta is literally the second in command (if we apply this retarded incel logic) and not some loser who's always last because a beta would then take the alpha's place when the alpha dies for instance

So don't think about it too much, it's just a bunch of idiots projecting their insecurities and making up some random hierarchy and, what's even worse, trying to apply it to humans to justify their retarded believes, the whole alpha thing falls apart considering that the main and most important factor for success in dating is and will always be personality, as soon as people pretend that it's not the case you get actual psychotic maniacs breaking their legs and obsessing over every inch of their bodies and canthal tilt and whatever other insane bullshit they come up with, see clavicular for the latest manifestation of such internet-induced shizophrenia

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>>25214276
>the main and most important factor for success in dating is and will always be personality
You’ve never had sex ahahaha

>>25214283
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>>25214264
Descriptive ideas can be true or false, that's what makes them descriptive. Normative ideas are neither true nor false. STEM essentially deals with descriptive ideas; humanities normative. the social sciences can be either/or.

I'm a 30 year old neet trying to turn it around. I've started going to the gym. I'm reading
How to win friends and influence people
48 laws of power
The Prince

Any other suggestions? I've been thinking of picking up chess as a mental past time. Considering going to university but undecided in subject

>>25214294
First two titles are slop. Ditch the self-help. You're better off reading the biographies of men you admire.

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>>25214289
I have a terrible personality but I’m jacked and have a big cawk, believe me if you ever had a girl she would leave you the second she saw me. I’m sorry bro it’s how the world works.

You think Donald Trump bagged supermodels because he has a good personality or because he’s rich and famous and when you’re rich and famous
>they just let you do it

5 Millimeters of Bone.

>>25214303
Well and this is just your personal anecdotal experience which is fine. If you went outside you would see that obviously not every couple is like that. Trump out of nowhere is also not a good argument.
Personality simply mogs as evidence shows time and time again.

>>25214303
>you’re rich and famous
>>they just let you do it
Orange dude destroyed all women with this kek

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These, plus make some friends and go outside. Work out and fix your diet if you're overweight.

I liked the suggestions. Do you think learning math can expand my consciousness like in the movie Limitless?

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>>25214583
No, I think it will increase your ability to do calculations thereby generally increasing your ability to function in the world.

>>25214276
Is there any interesting reading on internet or social media induced mental illness/retardation? It’s obviously a thing and seems to be getting worse. Somewhere, people have to be digging into the idea that this whole internet thing, especially social media, is doing massive damage to people.

>>25214853
The Shallows (Nicholas Carr, 2010)
I Hate the Internet (Jarrett Kobek, 2016)
The Anxious Generation (Jonathan Haidt, 2024)

>>25214086
Alpha males do not read. They have a group of people that read for them.

The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Strostroup.

>>25214165
Shakespeare was propaganda for the british crown he even depicts Joan of Arc as a witch. Macbeth was Jacobite propaganda. All art that had wealthy patrons was propaganda you dumbass

>>25214319
autism

I think the 1992 issues of Future Music Magazine are absolutely indispensable for high T maintenance. I refuse to elaborate.

>Homer
>Hesiod
>Vergil

Who else should be on my list? I want to go chronological through and study up to the Bible. I'm avoiding philosophy because I'm genuinely too stupid. I couldn't stomach even the simplest plato. Its just not my thing at all. I don't really appreciate plays either
I'm not really trying to be an alpha male i just don't want to make a new thread