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A tweet saying "When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that int he context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing importand features, filled with flaws and not fit for the public.
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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Quite reasonable given that the animal behavior researchers recanted on the wolf research that led to a mistaken usage of the terms alpha and beta. Turns out they were just looking at adult wolves and labeling them alpha, and juvenile wolves and labeling those beta.
A lot of the Alpha/Beta hierarchies that right-wingers venerate also have strong parallels between parent/child relationships. Almost as though there is this generation of excess males desperately looking for adults to emulate, only to be lured into industrialized fascism. They're chewed up and spit out as goons operating for the personal profit of a bourgeois landlord class.
Really depressing stuff. The myth of the primitive social tribe used to corrupt young men into becoming agents of post-modern wealth aggregation machine.
There were so many different 'primitive social' systems, that doubtless ( at least in my mind) operated in every imagineable way over the past 300K-150K years. Some worked better than others, some disappeared because there was some event (giant flood, wolf pack ate everyone, etc), and not because they were any less useful, or less functional.
I'm still bummed out by the degree to which "feeding young people into the kill-or-be-killed media machine" seems to be succeeding as an organizing principle.
smae - it's never been a fav rubric. I'm always pumping the anarchisms, and 'if everybody wins, that means nobody loses' memes.
The person who published that paper has spent so much of his life trying to inform people that it is flawed.
And so many of the "how do you know what the author meant?" "I AM THE AUTHOR!"